Comments
orig. on PELLIOT 3559. Tr. in YANAGIDA 1971: 329-435 and MCRAE 1986: 255-269. This is an early Chán transmission text which was written in 712 A.D. by a member of the Northern Chán School. The text creates a connection between the ‘Patriarchs’ Dàoxìn 道信, Sēngcàn 僧璨, and Hóngrěn 弘忍.