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A Buddhist BIBLE The Favorite Scriptures of the Zen Sect History of Early Zen Buddhism Self-Realisation of Noble Wisdom The Diamond Sutra The Prajna Paramita Sutra The Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch Edited, Interpreted & Published by DWIGHT GODDARD MDMXXXII THETFORD, VERMONT [1932] [FIRST EDITION] p. 4
COPYRIGHT 1932 BY DWIGHT GODDARD
Dedicated
TO MY HONORED TEACHERS
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki PROFESSOR, OTANI UNIVERSITY
Taiko Yamazaki ROSHI, SO-KO-KU MONASTERY
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TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE 9
HISTORY OF EARLY CH’AN BUDDHISM 15
SELF-REALISATION OF NOBLE WISDOM 37
Preface 39
Introduction 41
Chapter I Discrimination 45
Chapter II False Imagination and Appearance Knowledge 55
Chapter III Right Knowledge, or Knowledge of Relations 71
Chapter IV Perfect Knowledge, or Knowledge of Reality 81
Chapter V The Mind-system 87
Chapter VI Transcendental Intelligence 99
Chapter VII Self-realisation 109
Chapter VIII The Attainment of Self-realisation 121
Chapter IX The Fruits of Self-realisation 129
Chapter X Discipleship: Lineage of the Arhats 139
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Chapter XI Bodhisattvahood and Its Stages 147
Chapter XII Noble Wisdom that is Tathagatahood 157
Chapter XIII Nirvana 169
THE DIAMOND SUTRA. (Vajracchedika Sutra) 177
Introduction 179
The Diamond Scripture 181
SUTRA OF TRANSCENDENTAL WISDOM. (Maha-prajna-paramita-hridaya) 207
Preface 209
SUTRA OF THE SIXTH PATRIARCH 215
Preface 217
Chapter I Autobiography of Hui-Neng 219
Chapter II Discourse on Prajna 235
Chapter III Discourse on Dhyana and Samadhi 249
Chapter IV Discourse on Repentence 257
Chapter V Discourse on the Three-Bodies of Buddha 267
Chapter VI Dialogues 275
Chapter VII Sudden Enlightenment vs. Gradual Attainment 297
Chapter VIII Royal Patronage 305
Chapter IX Final Words and Death of the Patriarch 311