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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

9

HISTORY OF EARLY CH’AN BUDDHISM

15

SELF-REALISATION OF NOBLE WISDOM

37

Preface

39

Introduction

41

Chapter I Discrimination

45

Chapter II False Imagination and Appearance Knowledge

55

Chapter III Right Knowledge, or Knowledge of Relations

71

Chapter IV Perfect Knowledge, or Knowledge of Reality

81

Chapter V The Mind-system

87

Chapter VI Transcendental Intelligence

99

Chapter VII Self-realisation

109

Chapter VIII The Attainment of Self-realisation

121

Chapter IX The Fruits of Self-realisation

129

Chapter X Discipleship: Lineage of the Arhats

139

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Chapter XI Bodhisattvahood and Its Stages

147

Chapter XII Noble Wisdom that is Tathagatahood

157

Chapter XIII Nirvana

169

THE DIAMOND SUTRA. (Vajracchedika Sutra)

177

Introduction

179

The Diamond Scripture

181

SUTRA OF TRANSCENDENTAL WISDOM. (Maha-prajna-paramita-hridaya)

207

Preface

209

SUTRA OF THE SIXTH PATRIARCH

215

Preface

217

Chapter I Autobiography of Hui-Neng

219

Chapter II Discourse on Prajna

235

Chapter III Discourse on Dhyana and Samadhi

249

Chapter IV Discourse on Repentence

257

Chapter V Discourse on the Three-Bodies of Buddha

267

Chapter VI Dialogues

275

Chapter VII Sudden Enlightenment vs. Gradual Attainment

297

Chapter VIII Royal Patronage

305

Chapter IX Final Words and Death of the Patriarch

311

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