[Buddha-l] blind Huineng

[Stuart Lachs]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Piya Tan" <dharmafarer at gmail.com>
To: "Buddhist discussion forum" <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2012 12:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] blind Huineng


> Hi Mitchell,
>
> I've not heard of this before. What's the reference you have?
>
> Do I recall rightly that scholars like Adamek, Foulk and others have noted
> that works such as the Sixth Patriarch Sutra was really fabricated by
> Shenhui. Did he have anything to do with this interesting new detail?
>
> Piya Tan
>
>
> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Mitchell Ginsberg 
> <jinavamsa at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello all, I have found a reference to Huineng (Hui Neng) that described
>> him as blind.
>> I do not recall having heard of that before.
>> Would anyone know if there are grounds one way or the other for thinking
>> that Huineng (the sixth Chinese Ch'an Patriarch, I mean) was literally
>> blind, unable to have any visual perception?
>> Where can there more on this be found?
>> Thank you.
>> Mitchell
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