The sutra of the sixth patriarch on the pristine orthodox dharma ... Translated from the Chinese

by Paul F. Fung ... and George D. Fung by Dajian Huineng

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First edition

San Francisco: Buddha's Universal Church, 1964 . First edition, 8vo, pp. 8 , 187, 1 ; original blue laminated cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; very good, sound, and clean. Dajian Huineng or Hui-neng, also commonly known as the Sixth Patriarch or Sixth Ancestor of Chan, is a semi-legendary but central figure in the early history of Chinese Chan Buddhism. According to tradition Huineng was an uneducated layman who suddenly attained

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