Nattier's work challenges previous assumptions on this topic and focuses on the critical study of the "Kausambi Story, " a Buddhist prophecy of decline, in its Tibetan, Central Asian, and Chinese variants.

A Few Good Men is a study and translation of The Inquiry of Ugra (Ugraparipṛcchâ), one of the most influential Mahâyâna sutras on the bodhisattva path, but also one of the most neglected texts in Western treatments of Buddhism.

本书收录了包括《〈心经〉:一部中国的伪经》《谁作了〈大明度经〉(T225)--证据上的一次重新考察》等那氏著述,代表了那体慧的学术成就,可供读者了解那氏的学术思想.