vi, 161 pages ; 23 cm.; Hui Neng's Commentary on the Diamond SutraPreface /Hui Neng.1.The Cause and Reason of the Teaching Assembly.2.Subhuti Initiates Questioning.3.The True Source of the Great Vehicle.4.Subtle Practice without Dwelling.5.Real Seeing in Accord with Truth.6.The Rarity of True Faith.7.No Attainment and No Preaching.8.Emergence into Life through the Truth.9.Oneness without Forms.10.Adorning a Pure Land.11.The Superiority of Uncreated Blessings.12.Honoring True Teaching.13.Accepting and Holding the Teaching Accurately.14.Absolute Peace beyond Forms.15.The Virtues of Holding the Sutra.16.The Capacity to Clear Away Karmic Obstructions.17.Ultimate Selflessness.18.Impartial View of Oneness.19.The Teaching Pervading the Cosmos of Realities.20.Detachment from Forms and Appearances.21.Not Preaching a Doctrine.22.There Is Nothing to Attain.23.Purifying the Mind and Doing Good.24.Blessings and Wisdom without Compare.25.Teaching without Teaching Anyone.26.The Embodiment of Reality Is Not External Appearances.27.No Annihilation or Extinction.28.Not Accepting, Not Being Greedy.29.Serenity of Conduct.30.The Principle of the Compound.31.Views Do Not Occur.32.The Reward and the Emanation Are Not the Real.Notes on the Sutra of Hui Neng.; This collection of the talks of Hui-neng, also known as the Platform or Altar Sutra, is the only Zen record of its kind to be generally honored with the appellation sutra, or scripture. The Sutra of Hui-neng is here accompanied by Hui-neng's verse-by-verse commentary on the Diamond Sutra.; 

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