The Diamond Sutra is revered throughout Asia as one of the Buddha's most profound expressions of the nature of reality. A gem among the vast Perfection of Wisdom literature, the Diamond Sutra elicits an experience of eternal truth through its use of a seemingly paradoxical style, as the reader goes back and forth between "what is" and "what is not." Master Hsing Yun skillfully plumbs the depths of the Diamond Sutra, illuminating for us its power to change who we are and how we interpret our world.

Describing the Indescribable, Master Hsing Yun, Wisdom Publications, 2001, 210 pages, $16.95

Master Hsing Yun the forty-eighth patriarch of the Lin Chi (Rinzai) School of Zen Buddhism, lives in Taiwan. He maintains and extremely large following among Chinese Buddhists and has attracted the attention of a growing number of Westerners.

Tom Graham, a scholar and translator of Chinese, worked in East Asia for ten years. He now resides in San Diego, CA.