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The Six Gates of Shaoshi (Shaoshi liumen)

Bodhidharma

A compilation of six texts attributed to Bodhidharma—the verses on the Heart Sūtra, the Breakthrough Sermon, the two entrances, the method of pacifying the mind, the Wake-up Sermon and the Bloodstream Sermon—named after the Shaoshi peak of Mount Song, where Shaolin stands. It was incorporated into the Japanese Taishō Buddhist canon (vol. 48) and is the source of modern translations of the 'sermons of Bodhidharma'.