Later compilation
The 'Long Scroll': Dunhuang Compilation around the Two Entrances
二入四行論長卷子
A compilation found among the Dunhuang manuscripts that gathers, after the two-entrances treatise, letters, dialogues and sayings of the first masters of Bodhidharma's and Huike's circle. It is the oldest surviving collection of 'Chan' material and shows the question-and-answer style that would later characterise the school.
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Authorship note
An anonymous compilation of the seventh to eighth centuries; it contains sayings attributed to Bodhidharma alongside those of other masters. Modern title and division (Yanagida Seizan; Broughton).
Editions and translations
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English
The Bodhidharma Anthology: The Earliest Records of Zen
University of California Press, 1999
Translation: Jeffrey L. Broughton
ISBN 9780520219724
Other works by Bodhidharma
- Treatise on the Two Entrances and the Four Practices
- The Bloodstream Sermon (Xuemai lun) · 1100
- The Wake-up Sermon (Wuxing lun) · 1100
- The Breakthrough Sermon (Poxiang lun) · 700
- The Dharma Gate of Pacifying the Mind (Anxin famen)
- Verses on the Heart Sūtra (Xinjing song)
- The Six Gates of Shaoshi (Shaoshi liumen)
- Sinew-Changing Classic (Yijin jing) · 1624
- Marrow-Washing Classic (Xisui jing) · 1650
Sources
- Broughton, Jeffrey L. The Bodhidharma Anthology: The Earliest Records of Zen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. ISBN 9780520219724.
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