Inventing Hui-Neng, the Sixth Patriarch: Hagiography and Biography in Early Ch'an by John Jorgensen

Inventing Hui-Neng, the Sixth Patriarch: Hagiography and Biography in Early Ch'an

Sinica Leidensia

John Jorgensen

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nonfiction philosophy religion medium-paced
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It was through the propaganda of Shen-hui (684-758) that Hui-neng (d. 710) became the also today still towering figure of sixth patriarch of Ch'an/Zen Buddhism, and accepted as the ancestor or founder of all subsequent Ch'an lineages. The first pa...

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