| PREFACE | 9 |
| HISTORY OF EARLY CH’AN BUDDHISM | 15 |
| SELF-REALISATION OF NOBLE WISDOM | 37 |
| Preface | 39 |
| Introduction | 41 |
| Chapter I Discrimination | 45 |
| Chapter II False Imagination and Appearance Knowledge | 55 |
| Chapter III Right Knowledge, or Knowledge of Relations | 71 |
| Chapter IV Perfect Knowledge, or Knowledge of Reality | 81 |
| Chapter V The Mind-system | 87 |
| Chapter VI Transcendental Intelligence | 99 |
| Chapter VII Self-realisation | 109 |
| Chapter VIII The Attainment of Self-realisation | 121 |
| Chapter IX The Fruits of Self-realisation | 129 |
| Chapter X Discipleship: Lineage of the Arhats | 139 |
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| Chapter XI Bodhisattvahood and Its Stages | 147 |
| Chapter XII Noble Wisdom that is Tathagatahood | 157 |
| Chapter XIII Nirvana | 169 |
| THE DIAMOND SUTRA. (Vajracchedika Sutra) | 177 |
| Introduction | 179 |
| The Diamond Scripture | 181 |
| SUTRA OF TRANSCENDENTAL WISDOM. (Maha-prajna-paramita-hridaya) | 207 |
| Preface | 209 |
| SUTRA OF THE SIXTH PATRIARCH | 215 |
| Preface | 217 |
| Chapter I Autobiography of Hui-Neng | 219 |
| Chapter II Discourse on Prajna | 235 |
| Chapter III Discourse on Dhyana and Samadhi | 249 |
| Chapter IV Discourse on Repentence | 257 |
| Chapter V Discourse on the Three-Bodies of Buddha | 267 |
| Chapter VI Dialogues | 275 |
| Chapter VII Sudden Enlightenment vs. Gradual Attainment | 297 |
| Chapter VIII Royal Patronage | 305 |
| Chapter IX Final Words and Death of the Patriarch | 311 |