六祖大師法寶壇經
The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
Chan (Zen) Buddhism
Scripture of a living faith: the library collects it and does not score it, and readers cannot rate it.
The teachings and life of Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch of Chan, as recorded by his disciples: how an unlettered seller of firewood received the robe, and his teaching of sudden awakening to one's own nature. It is the only Chinese Buddhist work honoured with the name of sutra. Its versions grew over centuries, from the Dunhuang manuscript to the longer Yuan edition.