This essay continues on from: Heart Sutra: Author, Scribe, Editor, Translator, Reader . (25 October 2019) In John Searle's accou...

In this second essay on philology and the Heart Sutra I will once again take up Milikowsky's tripartite description of a text as cons...

Some time ago I uploaded a draft of an eclectic edition of the Chinese Heart Sutra  ( Xīnjīng ) for comment on academia.edu. Richard K. Pa...

For a short and popular text, the Heart Sutra is poorly understood (or widely misunderstood) and poorly studied. A lot of basic researc...

In this essay I do several things. I show that Conze bungled  the editing of the  Section VI of the  Heart Sutra  (Section VII in my nomen...