Six Patriarchs Platform Sutra: Dunhuang Edition of the Platform Sutra: Dunhuang Edition of the Platform Sutra

Author: Tang Hui Neng
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: The most influential classic among Chinese people, the widely circulated version of the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch is the Yuan Dynasty Zongbao edition. After the opening of the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang in 1900, handwritten scrolls of the Platform Sutra recorded and compiled by the disciples of the Sixth Patriarch during the Tang and Five Dynasties periods were discovered. Research has found that the Dunhuang edition of the Platform Sutra reflects the thoughts of the Sixth Patriarch Hui Neng more accurately and is closer to the true essence of the Sixth Patriarch. The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch—A Dunhuang Studies Reader is meticulously edited and annotated by Mr. Deng Wenkuan. It is both a research work on "Dunhuang Studies" and an accessible read for understanding Buddhist culture.