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Seeing through Zen (John McRae)
Seeing through Zen
A synthesis of the critical history of early Chan that sets out the “rules of Zen studies”—the first: it is not true, and therefore it is more important—and explains the role of Shenhui and the Platform Sūtra in building the lineage.
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Authorship note
Monograph by John R. McRae.
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English
Seeing through Zen
University of California Press, 2003
ISBN 0520237986
Other works by Huineng
- The Platform Sūtra of the Sixth Patriarch · 780
- Platform Sūtra: the Dunhuang version · 780
- Platform Sūtra: the Huixin version (967) · 967
- Platform Sūtra: the Qisong version (1056, lost) · 1056
- Platform Sūtra: the Zongbao version (1291) · 1291
- Commentary on the Diamond Sūtra (attributed)
- Treatise Determining the True and False about the Southern School (Shenhui) · 732
- Stele for Chan Master Neng (Wang Wei) · 750
- Inventing Hui-neng (John Jorgensen) · 2005
- Readings of the Platform Sūtra (Schlütter and Teiser, eds.) · 2012
Sources
- McRae, John R. Seeing through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. ISBN 0520237986.
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