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...

When I mention to anyone that I work on the Heart Sutra , there is a better-than-even chance that that person will declare that they lik...

I've written close to thirty essays on the Heart Sutra since I read Jan Nattier's 1992 article and attempted to précis it. In...