This book presents the major teachings of Mahāyāna Buddhism in a precise, dramatic, and even humorous form.
For two millennia this Sūtra, called the jewel of the Mahāyāna Sūtras , has enjoyed immense popularity among Mahāyāna Buddhists in India, central and southeast Asia, Japan, and especially China, where its incidents were the basis for a style in art and literature prevalent during several centuries.
Robert Thurman's translation mak.