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Exploring the Heart Sutra (Hardcover)
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Exploring the Heart Sutra (Hardcover)
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Exploring the Heart Sutra offers readers an interdisciplinary
philosophical approach to this much-loved Buddhist classic, with a
new translation and commentary. Situating the Heart Sutra within a
Chinese context, Sarah A. Mattice brings together voices past and
present, Asian and Western, on topics from Buddhology, translation
theory, feminism, religious studies, ethnography, Chinese
philosophy, and more, in order to inspire readers to understand the
sutra in a new light. Mattice's argument for the importance of
appreciating the Heart Sutra from a Chinese philosophical context
includes a new hermeneutic paradigm for approaching composite
texts; an argument for translating the text from the Chinese,
rather than the Sanskrit; an extended discussion of the figure of
Guanyin, bodhisattva of compassion and main speaker of the Heart
Sutra, as a distinctively Chinese figure; an inquiry in to the
history of women's practice, with a special focus on China; and a
commentary on the text that draws on philosophical resources from
Chinese Buddhist, Ruist, and Daoist traditions. Mattice presents
the Heart Sutra in its depth and complexity, inviting readers to
return to this classic text with fresh perspectives and new
insights into its relevance for living well in the contemporary
world.
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