The Sūtra of Perfect Enlightenment

A concise guide to the key practice systems of the East Asian Meditational schools Ch'an, Son, and Zen. The Sūtra of Perfect Enlightenment , used in monastic education for more than a millennium, is a concise guide to the key paradigms of the practice systems of the East Asian meditational schools (Ch'an, Sǒn, and Zen). Contained in its twelve chapters are definitive explanations of the meaning of innate and actualized enlightenment, sudden and gradual enlightenment, the true nature of ignorance