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The Religion of the Samurai: A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan on Lotus Sutra : “On one occasion, for instance, Fah Tah (Ho-tatsu), a monk who had read over the Saddharma-pundarika-sutra three thousand times, visited him to be instructed in Zen. "Even if you read the sutra ten thousand times," said the Sixth Patriarch, who could never read the text, "it will do you no good, if you cannot grasp the spirit of the…”
The Religion of the Samurai: A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan on Diamond Sutra : “On questioning the monk, be learned that the book was Vajracchedika-prajnya-paramita-sutra, and that Hung Jan, the Abbot of the Hwang Mei Monastery, was used to make his disciples recite the book that it might help them in their spiritual discipline.”
The Religion of the Samurai: A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan on Lankavatara Sutra : “The anonymous author of Lankavatara-sutra distinguishes the heterodox Zen from the Hinayana Zen, the Hinayana Zen from the Mahayana Zen, and calls the last by the name of the Buddha's Holy Zen.”
The Religion of the Samurai: A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan on Avatamsaka Sutra : “His translation of Dharmatara-dhyana-sutra (which is said to have been preached by Bodhidharma himself when he was in India) and that of Avatamsaka-sutra may be said without exaggeration to have laid the corner-stone for Zen.”
The Religion of the Samurai: A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan on Vimalakirti Sutra : “With this object in view Shakya Muni preached Vimalakirtti-nirdeca-sutra, Lankavatara-sutra, and other sutras, in which he compared Hinayanism with Mahayanism, and described the latter in glowing terms as a deep and perfect Law, whilst he set forth the former at naught as a superficial and imperfect one.”
The Religion of the Samurai: A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan on Mahaparinirvana Sutra : “Therefore, the Mahaparinirvana-sutra says: "Tathagata (another name for Buddha) gives life to all beings, just as the lake Anavatapta gives rise to the four great rivers."”
The Religion of the Samurai: A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan on Mahayanacraddhotpada-castra : “The sutra is believed by many Buddhists, not without reason, to be the exposition of that Mahayana doctrine which Acvaghosa restated in his Craddhotpada-castra.”
The Religion of the Samurai: A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan on Platform Sutra : “There exists Luh Tan Fah Pao Tan King (Roku-so-ho-bo-dan-kyo), a collection of his sermons. It is full of bold statements of Zen in its purest form, and is entirely free from ambiguous and enigmatical words that encumber later Zen books.”
The Religion of the Samurai: A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan on Sho-do-ka : “His Ching Tao Ko (Sho-do-ka), a beautiful metrical exposition of Zen, is still read by most students of Zen.”
The Religion of the Samurai: A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan on Record of Linji : “It is on this account that Rin-zai declared: 'The twelve divisions of the Buddhist Canon are nothing better than waste paper.'”
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