Xinxin ming信心銘

8th centurypoemChan

Author: Jianzhi Sengcantraditional
Date: 8th century
Also called: Faith in MindVerses on the Faith Mind
Language: Classical Chinese
Catalogue: Taishō T.2010
Used in: Chan

A poem on nonduality attributed to the third ancestor; the attribution is traditional, and the poem is probably later.

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attributed to Jianzhi Sengcan 鑑智僧璨, Xinxin ming 信心銘 (Inscription on Faith in Mind) · link
Daoyuan (comp.), Jingde chuandeng lu 景德傳燈錄 (1004) · link
John R. McRae, Seeing through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism (2003)

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