<p><b>Multi-prizewinning and internationally acclaimed Yan Lianke -- ''China''s most controversial novelist'' (<i>New Yorker)</i> -- returns with a campus novel <i>like no other</i> following a young Buddhist as she journeys through worldly temptation</b><br><br><i>To tell the truth, religious faith is really just a matter of believing stories. The world is governed by stories, and it is for the sake of stories that everyone lives on this earth.</i><br><br>Yahui is a young Buddhist at university. But this is no ordinary university. It is populated by every faith in China: Buddhists, Daoists, Catholics, Protestants and Muslims who jostle alongside one another in the corridors of learning, and whose deities are never far from the classroom.<br><br>Her days are measured out making elaborate religious papercuts, taking part in highly charged tug-of-war competitions between the faiths and trying to resist the daily temptation to return to secular life and abandon the ascetic ideals that are
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<b><b>Winner of the Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation</b><br><br>The most influential Buddhist sutra in the Mahayana tradition, from one of the world’s preeminent translators of religious texts</b><br> <br>...
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<b>An illuminating in-depth study of one of the most well-known and recited of all the Buddhist texts—by the renowned modern translator. Now in paperback.</b><br><br><br>The first-century classic <i>Prajnaparamita...
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<b>Two classic Zen Buddhist texts that present the foundational teachings of the tradition—now collected in one volume for the modern practitioner<br></b><br><i>The Diamond Sutra</i>, composed...
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