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[A] meticulous line-by-line interpretation that will radically deepen readers' understanding of not only the sutra but also Buddhism's underlying structure, Abhidharma, or the Matrix of Reality... Red Pine then proceeds to explicate The Heart Sutra in its concentrated entirety, including its most cited pronouncement, 'from is emptiness, emptiness is form, ' a feat that will engage and enlighten every serious student of the Dharma.

[A] meticulous line-by-line interpretation that will radically deepen readers' understanding of not only the sutra but also Buddhism's underlying structure, Abhidharma, or the Matrix of Reality... Red Pine then proceeds to explicate The Heart Sutra in its concentrated entirety, including its most cited pronouncement, 'from is emptiness, emptiness is form, ' a feat that will engage and enlighten every serious student of the Dharma. Delivered in the spirit of both scholar and poet, Red Pine's deeply compassionate translation of this joyous mystery text comes right on time and is as welcome as each new listening of Schubert's Ave Maria. Winner of the 2018 Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation

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Bill Porter (aka Red Pine) is widely recognized as one of the world's preeminent translators of Chinese poetry and religious texts; he assumes the pen name Red Pine for his translations. Writing as Red Pine, he was the first translator to ever translate the entirety of Han-shan's oeurve into English, published as The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain. Red Pine was also the first to translate into English the entirely of The Poems of the Masters. He has also translated several of the major Buddhist sutras, including the Heart Sutra, Diamond Sutra, and Platform Sutra.

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