This sect traces its origins to a disciple who smiled during the Flower Sermon.
This sect traces its origins to a disciple who smiled during the Flower Sermon. Its Southern School draws inspiration from the teachings of its sixth patriarch as recorded in the Platform Sutra. It emphasizes the importance of its masters via the concept of dharma transmission. Its central texts include the Blue Cliff Record and The Gateless Gate, whose contents provide fodder for seated meditation in pursuit of satori. Soto and Rinzai are two Japanese sects of, FTP, this syncretism of Taoism and Mahayana Buddhism whose adherents sometimes ponder paradoxical koans.
This sect traces its origins to a disciple who smiled during the Flower Sermon.
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