title: Buddha Journal (Mandala Standard and Deluxe Journals)
author: Editors of Mandala Publishing
description: ""For the soul there is neither birth nor death. The soul that is will never cease to be. It is unborn, eternal, everexisting, undying and primeval. It is not slain when the body is slain."
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  SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS 
   
  Number 222  
  March, 2012 
   
   
   
   
   
  Buddhism Across Boundaries:  
  The Interplay of Indian, Chinese,  
  and Central Asian Source Materials 
   
  edited by 
  John R. McRae and Jan Nattier 
   
   
   
   
  Victor H. Mair, Editor 
  Sino-Platonic Papers 
  Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations 
  University of Pennsylvania 
  Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 USA 
  vmair@sas.upenn.edu 
  www.sino-platonic.org 
  
  SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS 
  FOUNDED 1986 
   
   
  Editor-in-Chief 
  VICTOR H. MAIR 
   
   
  Associate Editors 
  PAULA ROBERTS  
  MARK SWOFFORD 
   
   
  ISSN 
  2157-9679 (print)  
   
  2157-9687 (online) 
   
   
   
  SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS is an occasional series dedicated to making available to specialists 
  and the interested public the results of research that, because of its unconventional or controversial 
  nature, might otherwise go unpublished. The editor-in-chief actively encourages younger, not yet 
  well established, scholars and independent authors to submit manuscripts for consideration. 
  Con