Lex Hixon (1941–1995)

How has enlightenment, the ultimate goal of all sacred traditions, affected the lives of those who have attained it? What has it meant to saints living in modern societies as well as to traditional masters? Is there a common ground between Tantric or Zen, Christian or Jewish, Sufi or Taoist ways to enlightenment?

Lex Hixon's "contemplative expansion" of forty passages from the Prajnaparamita Sutra, the basic scripture of all schools of Mahayana Buddhism, yields a text of devotional beauty that is at once dramatic and uplifting. The text sets forth the Bodhisattva path to enlightenment. Features a foreword by renowned American Buddhist scholar Dr. Robert A. Thurman.

A beautiful, lyric translation of selected passages from the Koran, written by an America who converted to Sufi Islam. This book makes it easier for non-muslims to understand how people might fall in love with the Koran.

Not so much a translation as an encounter. Very well done.