Huineng: Chan/Zen Master, Humbly Awakened

by Walker through Professor Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Powell II, opensourcebuddhism.org This second look at Huineng tells us again the life and times of Huineng, the rice-pounder whose lowly social status doesn't mean that he isn't the most awakened guy in the monastery. This most influential Chinese Buddhist has been the focus of many students, thus three projects to date.

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[amn3h23h2]

"chan" buddhism in english should always be called zen in my opinion, but to each their own.

siddhartha gautama buddha, who founded buddhism, is thought to have been born in 563 BC. how could this school of buddhism have been founded in the "7th or 6th century BC"? the 7th would be before buddha was born, and the 6th would have been too soon after buddha started his teachings. i'm asking this honestly because i could be missing something. maybe the dates we have for buddha's life are wrong?

[opensourcebuddhism]

@amn3h23h2 In fact amn, I think "Chan" should be used in place of "Zen" for it is the original, the Chinese form. "Zen" is simply more familiar to Americans due to Japanese connections, but all the big developments took place in China. If my student said 6-7th century BC, they were wrong. Of course Chan Buddhism arises well after the Buddha, more than one thousand years in fact, after the middle of the first century BCE.

[amn3h23h2]

@opensourcebuddhism oh, watching again it was 6th or 7th century AD and i heard BC mistakenly, sorry about that.

[supawanich00]

Very informative,thank you for sharing the gift of the Dharma.

[mujaku]

Actually, Bodhidharma's school was named the Lanka School after the Lankavatara Sutra. It then became East Mountain Dharma Gate.

[isrealjericho941]

@eldiagrama the sources are the platform sutra of the sixth patriarch Hui Neng aka Eno

[eldiagrama]

Let me tell you that this video is great,

I`m very interested in your sources. CAn you please post them?

Thank you for all this videos.