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The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch (Translations from the Asian Classics)
The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch - Translations from the Asian Classics
Author: Philip Yampolsky
Dating back to the eighth century C.E., the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch is a foundational text of Chan/Zen Buddhism that reveals much about the early evolution of Chinese Chan and the ideological origins of Japanese Zen and Korean Son. Purported to be the recorded words of the famed Huineng, who was understood to be the Sixth Patriarc...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780231159562
ISBN-10: 0231159560
Publication Date: 3/27/2012
Pages: 276
Edition: with a new foreword
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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