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Can I read An arrow to the heart : a commentary on the Heart Sutra on EtoBox?
An arrow to the heart : a commentary on the Heart Sutra by Ken McLeod is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is An arrow to the heart : a commentary on the Heart Sutra about?
An Arrow to the Heart is an exciting, trail-blazing, non-traditional translation and commentary of the Heart Sutra, an ancient and highly revered text in Mahayana Buddhism. This sutra is a concise presentation of the emptiness of all experience. Almost cryptic in its brevity, it confounds and inspires all who read it. Free of the cultural clothing in which Buddhism came to the West, An Arrow to the Heart goes straight to the heart of the Heart Sutra. In the tradition of Hakuin and others, McLeod's provocative tone and unpredictable turns consistently derail any conceptual understanding of this classic Buddhist scripture. Instead, he throws the reader into the very emptiness the Heart Sutra describes. The result is a sense of previously unsuspected possibilities that illuminate every nook and cranny of your life. It's also a delightfully irreverent combination of wit, irony, prose, and poetry. If you are looking for a traditional commentary on the Heart Sutra, this is probably not the right book. This book is for people who aren't afraid of having the ground pulled out from under them. Only in the last few years have senior Western teachers such as Ken McLeod started to write comme
Who reads An arrow to the heart : a commentary on the Heart Sutra?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Ken McLeod
- Publisher
- Author Solutions Inc.
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781425133771
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Fiction, Religion, Buddhism
- Rating
- 4.47 / 5 (35 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13