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Healing Visions of the Heart Sutra. A stunningly beautiful, full-color book of Buddhist paintings by
twentieth-century Japanese artist Iwasaki Tsuneo, interpreted by
Buddhist scholar Paula Arai.

Little known during his lifetime, the Japanese biologist and artist
Iwasaki Tsuneo (1917-2002) created a strikingly original and exquisitely
intricate body of modern Buddhist artwork. His paintings depict themes
ranging from classical Buddhist iconography to majestic views of our
universe as revealed by science--all created with the use of
painstakingly rendered miniature calligraphies of the Heart Sutra,
one of the most important scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism. In this
groundbreaking book, Paula Arai presents over fifty of Iwasaki's
paintings, elucidating their Buddhist contexts and meanings as well as
their intimate connections to Iwasaki's life as a war survivor, teacher,
scientist, and devout Buddhist practitioner. Having been posthumously
recognized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Iwasaki's paintings are sure
to be regarded as an innovative and heartfelt contribution to the
artistic legacy of twentieth-century Buddhism.