A Lasting Vision is dedicated to the Mirror of Literature, a Sanskrit treatise on poetics composed by Dandin in south India (c. 700 CE) and to its remarkable transcontinental career. The Mirror was adapted and translated into many Asian languages and became a classical text and a source of constant engagement and innovation, often well into the modern era. At long last, we have a book that does justice to the geographic reach and influence of Dandin's extraordinary irror of Literature. Beyond its undeniable scholarly value, this remarkable edited volume, featuring the work of specialists in almost every region and religious tradition in Asia that Dandin's poetics had an impact, also serves as a model for collaborative scholarship in the Humanities. Lasting Vision, imbued with the spirit of Dandin's intellectual capaciousness and curiosity, offers an open-palmed invitation to follow new paths into the study of literary theory and the world's literatures. It is an invitation worth accepting.