The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng

by Red Pine

Genres: Buddhism

352 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 10, 2006

About the author

Pen name of Bill Porter

Reviews

[Brett C · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was another translation of Buddhism by Red Pine. This individual has created another analysis and commentary on a sutra about achieving spiritual heightening and emphasizing the emptiness component seen in other sutras. The text was a history specific to the predecessor of Zen, the early Chinese Chan texts about Buddhism that differed from the Indic texts. I have come to enjoy reading these sutras and they way these are arranged and published. I would recommend this to anyone interested in Buddhism. Thanks!

[Very Wrong · Rating 5 out of 5]

This version of Platform Sutra by Red Pine is amazing!
It brings the essence of solid practice, repentance, and zen.
It is easy to read, just like a novel, to guide you through the world of Zen Buddhism.

[Taylor Swift Scholar · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like this one! The platform sutra is particularly compelling because it presents an example of an ordinary person becoming the spiritual patriarch instead of an elite. Then the main point is that we all have Buddha nature inside of us all along, but our illusions get in our way.