Heart SutraCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781922790132 Format: Trade paperback (UK) Year: 2023 Publisher: The Text Publishing Company Description: The five major religions collide in an exploration of spirituality and gender fluidity in a novel imbued with celebrated Chinese author Yan Lianke's distinctive wit and humour The Heart Sutra is the most mysterious scripture in Chinese Buddhism. In Yan Lianke's new novel, disciples of China's five main religions
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Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781922790132 Format: Trade paperback (UK) Year: 2023 Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Description: The five major religions collide in an exploration of spirituality and gender fluidity in a novel imbued with celebrated Chinese author Yan Lianke's distinctive wit and humour
The Heart Sutra is the most mysterious scripture in Chinese Buddhism. In Yan Lianke's new novel, disciples of China's five main religions-Buddhism, Daoism, Protestantism, Catholicism and Islam-gather for a year at the Religious Training Centre of Beijing's National Politics University. They live together, study together, exercise together in the blazing sun, and get caught up in financial and sexual shenanigans.
Heart Sutra explores the complex relations between humans and gods, between the secular and the divine, and between genders. The youngest Daoist monk and the youngest Buddhist nun fall in love. But as their faith is tested, will they stay committed to the path of a holy life? The choices they make are confronting, because nothing less than the fate of the gods is at stake.
Illustrated with beautiful woodcuts, animated by an incisive sense of humour, and inhabited by an unforgettable cast of mortals and deities, Heart Sutra is a stunning addition to Yan Lianke's oeuvre, which highlights the best and worst in humankind.