Chuánxīn Fǎyào (Essentials of Mind Transmission)

Text

Huangbo's teachings as recorded by the Tang official and lay disciple Pei Xiu in 857. The text is a sustained treatise on the One Mind that is identical with all buddhas — no graduated practice, no entry from outside, only direct seeing. Read together with Huangbo's later "Wanling Record," it became one of the most concise statements of Hongzhou-school teaching to enter the standard Chan canon.

tr. John Blofeld, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind, Grove Press 1958

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Huangbo Xiyun

Lineage: Linji

By Huangbo Xiyun

• Cease to Cherish Opinionsproverb
• On the Transmission of Mind: One Mindsermon
• No Distinction Between Ordinary and Holysermon
• The One Mind That All Buddhas Teachdialogue
• One Mind, Nothing Elseproverb

From Chuanxin Fayao

• Cease to Cherish Opinions
• On the Transmission of Mind: One Mind
• No Distinction Between Ordinary and Holy
• The One Mind That All Buddhas Teach

Sources

• contentZen Buddhism: A History, Volume 1 — India and China

  Heinrich Dumoulin (trans. James W. Heisig & Paul Knitter)

  Volume 1, chapter on Huangbo Xiyun

  The Chuanxin fayao, recorded by Pei Xiu around 857, is the principal record of Huangbo's teaching and a central text of the Hongzhou school.