Huineng
Platform Sūtra: the Zongbao version (1291)
Critical edition · Essential works
Platform Sūtra: the Zongbao version (1291)
六祖大師法寶壇經 (versión de Zongbao 宗寶, 1291; Taishō n.º 2008)
Ten chapters and over twenty thousand characters: it adds the fifteen years among hunters, the wind-and-banner episode, the question to Huiming about his original face and many dialogues with disciples. It is the basis of the first English translation (Wong Mou-lam, 1930) and of McRae's (2000).
Authorship note
An edition by the monk Zongbao, of the Yuan period, that entered the Ming canon and is the one read by almost all of Huineng's readers until the twentieth century.
Editions and translations
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English
Huineng
The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
The Conscious LibraryThe Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
Numata Center, 2000
Translation: John R. McRae
ISBN 1886439133
Huineng
Sutra Spoken by the Sixth Patriarch, Wei Lang, on the High Seat of the Gem of Law
The Conscious LibrarySutra 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
Chino clásico · 文言
Huineng
六祖大師法寶壇經
The Conscious Library六祖大師法寶壇經
Taishō shinshū daizōkyō, vol. 48, n.º 2008, 1928
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
- 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
- Seeing through Zen (John McRae) · 2003
- Inventing Hui-neng (John Jorgensen) · 2005
- Readings of the Platform Sūtra (Schlütter and Teiser, eds.) · 2012
Sources
- McRae, John R. (trad.). The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, translated from the Chinese of Tsung-pao. Berkeley: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, 2000. ISBN 1886439133.
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