Huineng · Theology

The Only Chinese ‘Sutra’

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.

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You learned that the Platform Sutra is the only native Chinese work granted the title &lsquo;sutra,&rsquo; 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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