This volume includes four separate texts from the Ch'an/Zen tradition.Essentials of the Transmission of Mind repeatedly espouses a single vision of religious training: one's own mind, just as it is an
Compiled by Vinaya Master Shi Sengyou, these writings (by laypeople as well as scholar-monastics) were intended to protect the Buddha Dharma from criticisms by Confucians and Daoists and the political
Lives of Great Monks and Nuns is a collection of five translated texts on the lives of prominent monks and nuns. A brief description of each text follows.The Life of Asvaghosa Bodhisattva gives a brie
There are two titles in this volume.The Pratyutpanna Samadhi Sutra is one of the earliest Mahayana sutras and influenced the development of Prajnaparamita, Pure Land, and Yogacara philosophies. It pro
This is the second in a series of volumes translating The Canonical Book of the Buddha’s Lengthy Discourses (Taisho 1). Volume 2 contains sutras 11–20 (of 30). Translations of the remaining sutras wil
This record of the life and teachings of Hui-neng, the Sixth Chan (Zen) Patriarch, is an eleventh-century compilation with ancillary materials. It deals with the Buddhist notion that the only criterio
