六祖坛经

Thousands of years of feudal rule ended almost overnight. What followed — consumerism, technology, unprecedented freedom — has paradoxically brought a new kind of unfreedom, an inner restlessness that no amount of progress seems to cure.

What makes the Platform Sutra remarkable is its answer to precisely this condition. Huineng, without formal education, received the patriarchal transmission over far more learned monks, and brought Buddhism to the people.