ABSTRACT
This book, first published in 1994, is a compendium of new translations of certain works regarded as fundamental texts in the Serene Reflection Buddhist Tradition (Sōtō Zen). All the texts were in Chinese, either as original works or as translations from Sanskrit. Several of them are central to the ceremonial not only of the Sōtō Zen Tradition but also of other Mahayana Buddhist traditions as well.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|43 pages
Scriptures: Three Chapters from the Lotus Scripture.
part 2|142 pages
The Scripture of Brahma’s Net.
chapter 6|130 pages
The Scripture of Brahma’s Net Wherein Vairochana Buddha Explains for Bodhisattvas the Foundations of Training and the Precepts
Translated from the Chinese of Kumārajīva.
part 3|53 pages
Religious Prose Text.
chapter 7|20 pages
Instructions On How to Do Pure Meditation.
Translated from the Chinese of the Fifty-fourth Ancestor, Great Master Keizan Jōkin.
chapter 8|9 pages
That Which is Engraved Upon the Heart That Trusts to the Eternal.
Translated from the Chinese of the Thirtieth Ancestor, Great Master Chien-chih Seng-ts ’an
chapter 9|19 pages
The Song That Attests To The Way.
Translated from the Chinese of Great Master Yung-chia Hsüan-chüeh
part 4|105 pages
Other Religious Works.
chapter 12|81 pages
The Great Far-Reaching Scripture Which Reveals the Whole Meaning of the Buddha’s Teaching on Fully Perfected Enlightenment.
From the Chinese of Buddhatrāta.
part 5|34 pages
Bodhidharma’s Discourse on Pure Meditation
chapter 14|28 pages
Bodhidharma’s Discourse on Pure Meditation.
Translated from the Tun-huang Version.
