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Buddhism in China: Ch’an Berger Intro to Asian Religions The Legendary History of Ch’an (禪) Buddhism The culminating “flower sermon” of Buddha Bodhidharma’s (d. 532) “four features” Chan is a special transmission outside the scriptures, not founded upon words or letters; By pointing directly to one’s own mind (心 hsin ), one sees into one’s inner Buddhahood. The patronage of Shen-hsiu’s (d.706) Ch’an The Biography of Hui-neng (638-713) in the Platform Sutra The illiterate child’s awakening (p. 508) The initiation of Hung-jen (pp. 508-509) The poem contest with Shen-hsiu (509-511) assertion of need for mental cultivation; mind as mirror (镜子 jing tzu), needs constant cleaning Hui-neng’s assertion of “original enlightenment” in the brightness nature (明 性 ming hsing) of Buddha-nature Shen-hsiu’s Second awakening, transmission from Hung-jen Teachings of Hui-neng’s Platform Sutra The oneness of meditation and awakening (511) The dao (道) or movement of “no-thought” and the warming against clinging to thoughts (512) Meditation as realizing the purity of one’s “original nature” (本 性 ben hsing ) (513) Original “bright nature” (明 性 ming hsing) covered up by evil deeds that cling to “environments” (514) Reading for Next Class Sourcebook, 345-46, 367-71 Response Paper 2 Due