The Sutra of Hui-neng, Grand Master of Zen

With Hui-neng's Commentary on the Diamond Sutra

Translated by Thomas Cleary
Paperback
$19.95 US
On sale Sep 14, 1998 | 176 Pages | 9781570623486

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Hui-neng (617-713) is perhaps the most respected and beloved figure in Zen Buddhism. An illiterate woodcutter who attained enlightenment in a clairvoyant flash, he became the renowned Sixth Patriarch of Ch'an, or Chinese Zen. Hui-neng's teachings are characterized by their striking immediacy and by their concern with direct insight into the essential nature of awareness. The Sutra of Hui-neng is here accompanied by Hui-neng's own commentary on the Diamond Sutra--in its first published English translation.
"The latest work from a distinguished and prolific translator is a new rendering of a celebrated Zen text, The Sutra of Hui-neng. This comes with what is stated to be the first English translation of Hui-neng's verse-by-verse commentary on the Diamond Sutra."— The Middle Way

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Hui-neng (617-713) is perhaps the most respected and beloved figure in Zen Buddhism. An illiterate woodcutter who attained enlightenment in a clairvoyant flash, he became the renowned Sixth Patriarch of Ch'an, or Chinese Zen. Hui-neng's teachings are characterized by their striking immediacy and by their concern with direct insight into the essential nature of awareness. The Sutra of Hui-neng is here accompanied by Hui-neng's own commentary on the Diamond Sutra--in its first published English translation.

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"The latest work from a distinguished and prolific translator is a new rendering of a celebrated Zen text, The Sutra of Hui-neng. This comes with what is stated to be the first English translation of Hui-neng's verse-by-verse commentary on the Diamond Sutra."— The Middle Way

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