The Platform Sutra, attributed to Huineng (638-713), the sixth patriarch of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, contains the main elements of this Mahayana school: the way of sudden enlightenment through “no-thought”; universal Buddha nature pervading all reality; and the sunyata (emptiness) of all phenomena.
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