My Heart Sutra

few authors have the ability to cover such a wide range of material in primary sources and still write to a general trade audience.

not a spiritual quest or a religious tract, this book is an absorbing intellectual aexploration of a religious text that is both meaningful and talismanic

The Heart Sutra is one of the most important scriptural texts in the Mahayana Buddhist School, the largest branch with around 185 million adherents worldwide.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Sutra

https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/essays/demographics-of-buddhism

In 2012, San Diego Union-Tribune estimated U.S. practitioners at 1.2 million people, of whom 40% are living in Southern California. In terms of percentage, Hawaii has the most Buddhists at 8% of the population due to its large Asian American community.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_the_United_States

The Buddhist Churches of America, for example, operates 60 churches nationally with 16,000 members.

Millions of Americans practice Buddhism. But the appeal of Buddhist thought extends even into non-Buddhist circles as varieties of self-help, business advice, etc.