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The Platform Sūtra of the Sixth Patriarch — Huineng

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The Platform Sūtra of the Sixth Patriarch

六祖壇經 (Liuzu tanjing) · 六祖大師法寶壇經 (Liuzu dashi fabao tanjing) · título de Dunhuang: 南宗頓教最上大乘摩訶般若波羅蜜經六祖惠能大師於韶州大梵寺施法壇經

Daikan Zenji (Huineng), templo Shōfukuji
byHuineng

The master's autobiography (the woodcutter, the poem contest, the transmission of the robe), a sermon on wisdom (prajñā), the formless precepts, the unity of meditation and wisdom and the triple principle of no-thought, no-form and no-abiding, followed by dialogues with disciples and the account of his death. It is the only text by a Chinese master to bear the title of sūtra and the founding work of all later Chan and Zen.

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Authorship note

It presents itself as Huineng's sermon at the Dafan temple recorded by his disciple Fahai, but it is a later compilation: Hu Shi (1930) attributed it to Shenhui or his circle; Yampolsky (1967) dates it to around 780 from diverse materials; Yanagida (1967) and McRae (1986, 2003) place it in the Oxhead school. It grew for five centuries: Dunhuang (mid-ninth-century copy), Huixin (967), Qisong (1056, lost), Zongbao (1291).

Editions and translations

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English

  • The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch — Huineng

    The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

    Columbia University Press, 2012

    Translation: Philip B. Yampolsky

    ISBN 9780231159562

    Reedición con prólogo de Morten Schlütter.

  • The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng

    Shoemaker & Hoard, 2006

    Translation: Red Pine

    ISBN 9781593760861

    Traducción del texto de Dunhuang con comentario; reed. Counterpoint 2008.

  • The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

    Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, 2000

    Translation: John R. McRae

    ISBN 1886439133

    Versión de Zongbao.

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  • The Sutra of Hui-neng, Grand Master of Zen — Huineng

    The Sutra of Hui-neng, Grand Master of Zen

    Shambhala, 1998

    Translation: Thomas Cleary

    ISBN 1570623481

  • The Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui-Neng — Huineng

    The Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui-Neng

    Shambhala, 1990

    Translation: A. F. Price y Wong Mou-lam

    ISBN 0877730059

    Primera edición Shambhala 1969.

  • The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch: The Text of the Tun-huang Manuscript — Huineng

    The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch: The Text of the Tun-huang Manuscript

    Columbia University Press, 1967

    Translation: Philip B. Yampolsky

    ISBN 0231083610

    Texto chino de Dunhuang y traducción; reed. 2012: 9780231159562.

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  • The Platform Scripture

    St. John's University Press, 1963

    Translation: Wing-tsit Chan

    Del texto de Dunhuang.

  • The Sutra of Wei Lang (or Hui Neng)

    Luzac, para The Buddhist Society, 1944

    Translation: Wong Mou-lam; nueva ed. de Christmas Humphreys

    Reeds. 1947 y 1953; Hyperion Press 1973 (0883550733).

  • Sutra Spoken by the Sixth Patriarch, Wei Lang, on the High Seat of the Gem of Law

    Yu Ching Press (Shanghái), 1930

    Translation: Wong Mou-lam

    Primera traducción inglesa, de la versión de Zongbao.

Chino clásico · 文言

  • 六祖大師法寶壇經 (Taishō n.º 2008)

    Taishō shinshū daizōkyō, vol. 48, 1928

    Versión de Zongbao en el canon de Taishō.

日本語

  • Rokuso dangyō shohon shūsei 六祖壇經諸本集成

    Chūbun shuppansha (Kioto), 1976

    Ed. Yanagida Seizan: facsímiles de las principales versiones.

Español

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Sources

  • Yampolsky, Philip B. (ed. y trad.). The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch: The Text of the Tun-huang Manuscript. Nueva York: Columbia University Press, 1967; reed. 2012 (ISBN 9780231159562).

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