Sixth Patriarch of Chan Buddhism

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The Sixth Patriarch of Chan Buddhism is the revered title of Huineng, the influential 7th-century Chinese monk whose teachings and life story, recorded in the Platform Sutra, shaped the development of Zen across East Asia.

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Label	Occurrences
Sixth Patriarch of Chan	1
Sixth Patriarch of Chan Buddhism canonical	1

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Huineng → position → Sixth Patriarch of Chan Buddhism ⓘ

Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch → associatedWith → Sixth Patriarch of Chan Buddhism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sixth Patriarch of Chan