Currently reading
Becoming Kuan Yin: The Evolution of Compassion
Collected Stories of William Faulkner
The Glass Key
The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 (Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation)
Accent on Form: An Anticipation of the Science of Tomorrow
The Expert versus the Object: Judging Fakes and False Attributions in the Visual Arts
War and Peace
The Position of Things: Collected Poems 1961-1992
The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain (Mandarin Chinese and English Edition)
Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers
Buddhist Wisdom: The Diamond Sutra and the Heart Sutra
Unless you can read the original, it is good to take two or more different translations and read them parallel (perhaps as practice, with a group). Since the version by Thich Nhat Hanh has already been cited, I'm adding this rendition, for triangulation.The same approach is necessary for, say, Basho.Speaking of literary translation, perhaps it is true that our recent, contemporary investigations into Sanskrit- and Chinese-based cultures constitutes a Renaissance II ; certainly, the West's translation of BuddhaDharma is a great engine for much outstanding literary translation of our time.Once The Heart Sutra's been studied and practiced, there's this Diamond ... wisdom beyond wisdom.
