Library of Chinese Classics: Tan Jing

Hardcover: 265 pages
Language: Simplified Chinese and English
ISBN-10: 7543870916
ISBN-13: 978-7543870918

Published by Hunan People's Publishing, 2012

Tan Jing (the Sutra of Huineng) records and organizes the Sixth Ancestor Huinengs speech in Shaozhou Brahman Temple for more than one thousand monks at the invitation of the secretariat of Shaozhou when he worked as the abbot of Caoxi Baolin Temple after being enlightened in Huangmei. The book introduces the cause and experience of Huineng in studying Buddhism, summarizes the main ideas of the Huineng and records his summary of Zen Buddhism tenet before his death. Also, this book mainly describes how Huineng grew from an illiterate cutting-firewood boy into a Zen master. Through the clue, it illustrates the concrete inheritance of Zen Buddhism and the Zen doctrine of south Zen Buddhism as well as the interpretation of prajna, wisdom, meditation, enlightenment, a line of Samadhi, alaksana, chonyid, no thinking, etc. in south Zen Buddhism.