By Morten Schlütter

The Platform Sutra contains a variety of very important Chan/Zen Buddhist teachings. speculated to comprise the autobiography and sermons of Huineng (638–713), the mythical 6th Patriarch of Chan, the sutra has been renowned between monastics and the knowledgeable elite for hundreds of years. the 1st research of its sort in English, this quantity bargains essays that introduce the historical past and ideas of the sutra to a common viewers and interpret its practices. top experts on Buddhism talk about the text's ancient history and its vaunted legacy in chinese language tradition.

Incorporating fresh scholarship and conception, chapters contain an outline of chinese language Buddhism, the the most important function of the Platform Sutra in the Chan culture, and the dynamics of Huineng's biography. They probe the sutra's key philosophical arguments, its paradoxical teachings approximately transmission, and its place on ordination and different associations. The ebook incorporates a personality word list and huge bibliography, with worthy references for college kids, common readers, and experts all through. The editors and individuals are one of the most dear students within the research of Buddhism, they usually determine where of the Platform Sutra within the broader context of chinese language suggestion, establishing the textual content to all readers drawn to Asian tradition, literature, spirituality, and faith.

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Tanaka, The Dawn of Chinese Pure Land Buddhist Doctrine: Ching-ying Hui-yüan’s Commentary on the Visualization Sutra, SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990). The dates for early Chan figures are all tentative; in this book we follow the dating suggested in John R. McRae, Seeing Through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 13. John R. McRae, The Northern School and the Formation of Early Chʻan Buddhism, Kuroda Institute, Studies in East Asian Buddhism, 3 (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1986), 132–36.

Huineng worked as a woodcutter and was illiterate, but he was predestined to meet Hongren, who initially rejected him as a non-Chinese barbarian. In the construction of these two biographies, both Huineng and Confucius struggled to find acceptance and recognition, both barely avoided assassination and foretold the time of their death, and both had ten main disciples. The biographical patterns noted above were simply a general template, their elements borrowed in a wide range of accounts, including the life of Hongren.

The Chinese text of the Dunhuang version is conveniently found in the back of Yampolsky, The Platform Sutra. indb 20 10/28/11 1:05 PM introduction: the platform sūtra , buddhism, and chinese religion 21 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. indb 21 Library (S. 5475), contains many miswritten characters and some missing sentences, and was amended by Yampolsky. A second early manuscript copy of the Platform Sūtra recently came to light in the collection of the Dunhuang County Museum (no. 77); the text of this manuscript is in much better condition.

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