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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. Widely read and retold, the Platform Sutra is purported to be the recorded words of the famed Huine...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780231159579
ISBN-10: 0231159579
Publication Date: 3/27/2012
Pages: 272
Edition: with a new foreword
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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