坛经【英】

Platform Sutra

定义

佛教经典，主要记录六祖慧能的事迹和语录。认为人人都有佛性，每个人都有成佛的可能。主张无念、顿悟等，体现了慧能要求习禅者体认佛性的自身清净。

A Buddhist classic mainly recording the deeds and sayings of Hui Neng, one of the six patriarchs of the Chan school in China, who believes that all human beings having the Buddhata are possible to become the Buddha, and advocates the absences of false ideas or thoughts and the instant enlightenments, etc., embodying Hui Neng’s opinion that the Chan learners should understand the purity and cleanliness of the Buddhata.