Articles by alphabetic order
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
 Ā Ī Ñ Ś Ū Ö Ō
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0


Hui-neng

From Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Huineng25.jpg


Hui-neng (638-713): Sixth Chinese Patriarch of Zen school, an incarnation of Vajra Bodhisattva.


In Canton dialect, Wei-lang. In Jap., Enō (637–713). The famous Sixth Patriarch of Chinese Zen Bsm.. the virtual founder of Ch’an

(Zen) Bsm. as a School of its own. His was the ‘Sudden’ school as distinct from the ‘Gradual’ school of Shen-hsiu (q.v.), his fellow

pupil of Hung-jen. The latter soon died out, but both the Rinzai and Sōtō branches of Hui-neng’s School have flourished for a thousand years.

Huineng was the last Zen Patriarch, though many famous Zen Masters followed him. For a trans. by Wong Moulam of the Tan Ching, the

Platform Sutra of the Patriarch,

see the Sutra of Wei Lang (Hui-neng) (1944) and subsequent editions.


See; the Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch.

see alsoHuineng


Source

buddhism.org