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THE PLATFORM SUTRA
OF THE SIXTH PATRIARCH
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BDK English Tripiaka Series
THE PLATFORM SUTRA
OF THE SIXTH PATRIARCH
Translated from the Chinese of Zongbao
(Taishō Volume 48, Number 2008)
by
John R. McRae
Numata Center
for Buddhist Translation and Research
2000
2000 by Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai and
Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research
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ISBN: 1-886439-13-3
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A Message on the Publication of the
English Tripiaka
The Buddhist canon is said to contain eighty-four thousand different teachings.
I believe that this is because the Buddha’s basic approach was to prescribe a
different treatment for every spiritual ailment, much as a doctor prescribes a
different medicine for every medical ailment. Thus his teachings were always
appropriate for the particular suffering individual and for the time at which the
teaching was given, and over the ages not one of his prescriptions has failed to
relieve the suffering to which it was addressed.
Ever since the Buddha’s Great Demise over twenty-five hundred years ago,
his message of wisdom and compassion has spread throughout the world. Yet
no one has ever attempted to translate the entire Buddhist canon into English
throughout the history of Japan. It is my greatest wish to see this done and to
make the translations available to the many English-speaking people who have
never had the opportunity to learn about the Buddha’s teachings.
Of course, it would be impossible to translate all of the Buddha’s eighty-
four thousand teachings in a few years. I have, therefore, had one hundred thirty-
nine of the scriptural texts in the prodigious Taishō edition of the Chinese Buddhist
canon selected for inclusion in the First Series of this translation project.
It is in the nature of this undertaking that the results are bound to be criti-
cized. Nonetheless, I am convinced that unless someone takes it upon himself
or herself to initiate this project, it will never be done. At the same time, I hope
that an improved, revised edition will appear in the future.
It is most gratifying that, thanks to the efforts of more than a hundred
Buddhist scholars from the East and the West, this monumental project has
finally gotten off the ground. May the rays of the Wisdom of the Compassion-
ate One reach each and every person in the world.
N
UMATA
Yehan
Founder of the English
August 7, 1991
Tripiaka Project
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