Philip B. Yampolsky (1920-1996) was professor of East Asian languages and cultures and director of the C. V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University. An eminent translator and scholar of Zen Buddhist texts, he edited Letters of Nichiren and Selected Writings of Nichiren and translated The Zen Master Hakuin: Selected Writings. Morten Schlutter is an associate professor at the University of Iowa. He is the author of How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute Over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China and coeditor, with Stephen F. Teiser, of Readings of the Platform Sutra.

• Foreword to the Reprint Edition by Morten Schlutter Foreword by Wm. Theodore de Bary Preface Abbreviations Introduction: Ch'an in the Eighth Century The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch Glossary Bibliography Index The Tun-huang Text

Philip B. Yampolsky (1920-1996) was professor of East Asian languages and cultures and director of the C. V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University. An eminent translator and scholar of Zen Buddhist texts, he edited Letters of Nichiren and Selected Writings of Nichiren and translated The Zen Master Hakuin: Selected Writings. Morten Schlutter is an associate professor at the University of Iowa. He is the author of How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute Over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China and coeditor, with Stephen F. Teiser, of Readings of the Platform Sutra.

• Foreword to the Reprint Edition by Morten Schlutter Foreword by Wm. Theodore de Bary Preface Abbreviations Introduction: Ch'an in the Eighth Century The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch Glossary Bibliography Index The Tun-huang Text

Philip B. Yampolsky (1920-1996) was professor of East Asian languages and cultures and director of the C. V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University. An eminent translator and scholar of Zen Buddhist texts, he edited Letters of Nichiren and Selected Writings of Nichiren and translated The Zen Master Hakuin: Selected Writings. Morten Schlutter is an associate professor at the University of Iowa. He is the author of How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute Over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China and coeditor, with Stephen F. Teiser, of Readings of the Platform Sutra.

• Foreword to the Reprint Edition by Morten Schlutter Foreword by Wm. Theodore de Bary Preface Abbreviations Introduction: Ch'an in the Eighth Century The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch Glossary Bibliography Index The Tun-huang Text