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Readings of the Platform Sutra

By Morten Schlütter (Editor), Stephen Teiser (Editor)
Hardcover
$110.00
By Morten Schlütter (Editor), Stephen Teiser (Editor)
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The Platform Sutra comprises a wide range of important Chan/Zen Buddhist teachings. Purported to contain the autobiography and sermons of Huineng (638–713), the legendary Sixth Patriarch of Chan, the sutra has been popular among monastics and the educated elite for centuries. The first study of its kind in English, this volume offers essays that introduce the history and ideas of the sutra to a general audience and interpret its practices. Leading specialists on Buddhism discuss the text's ...

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