Huineng
Stele for Chan Master Neng (Wang Wei)
Academic study
Stele for Chan Master Neng (Wang Wei)
能禪師碑 (Neng chanshi bei)
It presents Huineng as Hongren's disciple and a teacher at Caoxi, mentions his ordination by Yinzong and does not attack the Northern school; its differences from the account of Shenhui and of the Sūtra are one of the arguments for separating history from legend.
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Authorship note
A funerary inscription composed by the poet Wang Wei at Shenhui's request; the oldest biography of Huineng.
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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
- Seeing through Zen (John McRae) · 2003
- Inventing Hui-neng (John Jorgensen) · 2005
- Readings of the Platform Sūtra (Schlütter and Teiser, eds.) · 2012
Sources
- Wang Wei 王維. «Neng chanshi bei» 能禪師碑 (Estela del maestro de chan Neng), mediados del siglo VIII, recogida en el Quan Tang wen; inscripción encargada por Shenhui.
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