No Buddhist Bible: A Brief Overview of 2500 Years' Worth of Buddhist Texts (2 of 2)
4/16/202633 min
In Part 2 of this episode, I continue giving my "2,500 years' worth of Buddhist texts in a nutshell," an overview of texts in my Zen lineage. In Part 1 I explained what makes a Buddhist text considered legitimate enough to be passed down through the ages. I also introduced the idea of a Buddhist family tree and discussed the original Buddhist canon, the rising of the Mahayana, and the Mahayana sutras. In this episode I cover Mahayana philosophers, Chinese Chan literature, and the writings of two of the main Japanese Zen ancestors in my lineage.
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First 90 secondsDomyo Burk· Host0:00
[on-hold music] Welcome to the Zen Studies Podcast. I'm Domyo Burk. Thanks to new supporting members of the podcast, Mary from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and JinRyu, a dear sangha member of mine from Lacey, Washington. In part two of this episode, No Buddhist Bible, uh, I am giving, continuing to give my twenty-five hundred years' worth of Buddhist texts in a nutshell, an overview of texts in my Zen lineage. And in part one, I explained what makes a Buddhist text considered legitimate enough to be passed down through the ages. I also introduced the idea of a Buddhist family tree and discussed the original Buddhist canon, the rising of the Mahayana and the Mahayana sutras. In this episode, I cover Mahayana philosophers, Chinese