Bodhidharma, the 5th-century Indian Buddhist monk who is credited with bringing Zen to China, had few disciples in his lifetime.
The original Chinese text, presented on facing pages, is taken from a Ch\'ing dynasty woodblock edition..
Outline of Practice describes the four all-inclusive habits that lead to enlightenment, the Bloodstream Sermon exhorts students to seek the Buddha by seeing their own nature, the Wake-up Sermon defends his premise that the most essential method for reaching enlightenment is beholding the mind.
This bilingual edition, the only volume of the great teacher\'s work currently available in English, presents four teachings in their entirety.
Instead of telling his disciples to purify their minds, he pointed them to rock walls, to the movements of tigers and cranes, to a hollow reed floating across the Yangtze.
While others viewed Zen practice as a purification of the mind or a stage on the way to perfect enlightenment, Bodhidharma equated Zen with buddhahood and believed that it had a place in everyday life.
Although the tradition that traces its ancestry back to him did not flourish until nearly two hundred years after his death, today millions of Zen Buddhists and students of kung fu claim him as their spiritual father.
A fifth-century Indian Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma is credited with bringing Zen to China.
The edition teaches four of his teachings in their entirety.
Today there are millions of Zen Buddhists and students of kung fu who claim him as their spiritual father.
Bodhidharma, the 5th-century Indian Buddhist monk who is credited with bringing Zen to China, had few disciples in his lifetime
