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Buddhism: The Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha

The Heart Sutra Explained

Indian and Tibetan Commentaries

by Donald S. Lopez Jr.

A study of the eight Indian commentaries on the Heart Sutra preserved in Tibetan, with Lopez's own line-by-line explanation of the text. It shows how Indian scholastics read the sutra as a map of the bodhisattva path.

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