Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, Hui Neng, The Platform Sutra

Contents

English edition (1952) by Christmas Humphreys, based upon Wong Mou-lam's translation (1930)

Preface and Foreward
1. Autobiography
2. On Prajñā
3. Questions and Answers
4. Samadhi and Prajna
5. Dhyana
6. On Repentence
7. Temperament and Circumstances
7. Sudden School and Gradual School
8. Royal Patronage
9. His Final Instructions
Appendix by Ling To, the Stupa Keeper
Source: Buddha Educational Foundation, budaedu.org (pdf 208 pages)
Printed and donated for free distribution by The Corporate Body of the Buddha Educational Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan.
Dwight Goddard Edition

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