I finished reading The Heart Sutra: A Comprehensive Guide to the Classic of Mahayana Buddhism (2014) by Kazuaki Tanahashi. This is one of my favorite types of books: one that tackles a single subject and explores it in depth. ("Comprehensive" is in the subtitle.) Tanahashi explores the provenance of The Heart Sutra in its Sanskrit and Chinese forms, and in various translations and renderings into other languages—Japanese, Tibetan, Nepalese, English, and others. He looks at modern and recent scholarship, and provides his own translation with co-authorship by Roshi Joan Halifax. But one of the most important sections is 70 pages of examining terms and concepts in the Sanskrit and Chinese versions and explaining them in detail. This is a book I will be returning to again and again.
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