Ch'an and Zen Teaching: First Series

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The first volume contains - The practice as taught by the Venerable Hsu Yun, the best-known modern Ch'an Master. It elaborates upon the technique known as hua t'ou which is taught in Japanese zendos; six representative stories (kung-ans) of Ch'an Masters are translated from the Imperial Selection of Ch'an Sayings. Each kung-an is fully explained so that it makes sense to the uninitiated; a translation of the Diamond and Heart Sutras with the Commentary of Ch'an Master Han Shan. (Source Accessed Apr 19, 2022)

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Luk, Charles (Lu K'uan Yü), ed. and trans. Ch'an and Zen Teaching: First Series. The Clear Light Series. Berkeley, CA: Shambhala Publications, 1970. First published 1960 by Rider (London).

Table of contents

Editor's Foreword9

PART I
- Master Hsu Yun's Discourses and Dharma Words
  - 1. Prerequisites of the Ch'an Training19
  - 2. The Ch'an Training29
  - 3. Daily Lectures at Two Ch'an Weeks49
  - 4. The Master's Arrival at Ts'ao Chi110

PART II
- Stories of Six Ch'an Masters
  - Foreword121
  - 1. Master Teh Cheng, the Boat Monk of Hua Ting123
  - 2. Master Chih Hsien of Hsiang Yen129
  - 3. Master Chu Ti of Chin Hua134
  - 4. Master Hui Tsang of Shih Kung136
  - 5. Master Wu Chu, alias Wen Hsi of Hang Chou139
  - 6. Master Fu Ta Shih (Bodhisattva Fu, alias Shan Hui)143

PART III
- The Diamond Cutter of Doubts
- A Commentary on the Diamond Sūtra by Ch'an Master Han Shan
  - Foreword149
  - Preface152
  - Part One154
  - Part Two188

PART IV
- A Straight Talk on the Heart Sūtra
- by Ch'an Master Han Shan
  - Foreword209
  - Commentary211
  - Chinese Appendix of Persons, Places and Terms225
  - Glossary of Chinese and Sanskrit Names, Terms and Places, with dates where known231
  - Index246

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Vajracchedikāprajñāpāramitāsūtra [वज्रच्छेदिकाप्रज्ञापारमितासूत्र]. 'phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa rdo rje gcod pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་རྡོ་རྗེ་གཅོད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra on the Perfection of Wisdom "The Diamond Cutter" (84000)]. Translated by Bodhiruci, Śīlendrabodhi, Ye shes sde, Kumārajīva, Paramārtha, Dharmagupta, Yijing, Xuanzang. Kangyur, RKTSK 16 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=16&typ=1.

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One of the most revered and recited scriptures of the perfection of wisdom genre (prajñāpāramitāsūtras), perhaps second only to the Heart Sūtra, both of which became especially popular in the East Asian Buddhist traditions. It is a crucial source for Mahāyāna tenets of selflessness and the emptiness of phenomena, and its discourse is framed as an explanation of how to enter into the vehicle of the bodhisattvas by developing and sustaining their enlightened perspective.

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Luk, Charles (Lu K'uan Yü), ed. and trans. "The Diamond Cutter of Doubts: A Commentary on The Diamond Sūtra (Vajracchedikā-prajñā-pāramitā Sūtra) By Ch'an Master Han Shan (from the Chin Kang Chueh I)." In Ch'an and Zen Teaching: First Series, 147–206. The Clear Light Series. Berkeley, CA: Shambhala Publications, 1970.

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An English translation of the Vajracchedikāprajñāpāramitāsūtra by Charles Luk from the edition of Kumārajīva, T235, with a commentary by Hanshan Deqing (1546–1623).