Tang Dynasty · Sixth Patriarch Huineng · The Platform Sutra
The Platform
Sutra
The only Chinese Buddhist text honored as a "Sutra" —
"Sudden enlightenment" and "seeing one's true nature" have illuminated 1,300 years.
Tang Dynasty · Sixth Patriarch Huineng · The Platform Sutra
The only Chinese Buddhist text honored as a "Sutra" —
"Sudden enlightenment" and "seeing one's true nature" have illuminated 1,300 years.
The only Chinese Buddhist text honored with the title "Sutra" — marking the full sinification of Buddhism.
Six core propositions: sudden enlightenment, seeing one's nature, unity of samadhi and prajna, no-thought, no-form, no-abode.
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"The bodhi tree is not a tree" — pearls of wisdom that have illuminated a millennium.
BrowseSix foundational Chan propositions that run through the Platform Sutra
"The wisdom of bodhi-prajna is originally possessed by all people; only because the mind is deluded can one not awaken on one's own."
— Ch.2: Prajna
"Samadhi is the substance of prajna; prajna is the function of samadhi."
— Ch.4: Samadhi and Prajna
"The Dharma is in the world; awakening is not apart from the world. To seek bodhi apart from the world is like seeking a rabbit's horns."
— Ch.2: Prajna