The Bodhidharma Anthology: The Earliest Records of Zen

In the early part of this century, the discovery of a walled—up cave in northwest China led to the retrieval of a lost early Ch'an (Zen) literature of the T'ang dynasty (618—907). One of the recovered Zen texts was a seven—piece collection, the Bodhidharma Anthology. Of the numerous texts attributed to Bodhidharma, this anthology is the only one generally believed to contain authentic Bodhidharma material.

Jeffrey L. Broughton provides a reliable annotated translation of the Bodhidharma Anth...