From the Book - First edition.
Preface to the Vintage Spiritual Classics edition / Judith Simmer-Brown
Foreword to the first edition
The Diamond Sutra : Introduction ; The bodhisattva's career ; The range of the spiritual life ; The first ending (13a) ; Transcendentality ; The bodhisattvas ; The buddhas ; Advice to the imperfect ; The second conclusion (32b)
The Heart Sutra : The invocation ; The prologue ; The dialectics of emptiness ; The concrete embodiment of full emptiness, and its practical basis ; Full emptiness is the basis also of buddhahood ; The teaching brought within the reach of the comparatively unenlightened.
