Bodhidharma
Marrow-Washing Classic (Xisui jing)
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Traditional attribution
Marrow-Washing Classic (Xisui jing)
洗髓經
A text of inner practices of purification and longevity, paired with the Yijin jing in the Shaolin tradition; its title recalls the legend in which Bodhidharma told Huike that he had obtained his 'marrow'.
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Authorship note
Apocryphal, of the Qing period; an attribution without historical basis.
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Other works by Bodhidharma
- Treatise on the Two Entrances and the Four Practices
- The 'Long Scroll': Dunhuang Compilation around the Two Entrances · 700
- 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
Sources
- Shahar, Meir. The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2008.
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