Huineng · Theology
How the words of an illiterate woodcutter became the one native Chinese text ever honored with the title <em>sutra</em> - the <em>Platform Sutra</em> - and how Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch, made Chan a teaching rooted in Chinese soil.
You learned that the Platform Sutra is the only native Chinese work granted the title ‘sutra,’ that it records the teaching of Huineng the Sixth Patriarch and founder of the Southern school, and that Huineng, an illiterate firewood-seller, awakened on merely hearing a line of the Diamond Sutra. Explain in…
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