7. The most obvious problem with attribution of the Platform Sutra to Hui-neng is that many of the sections of the sermon appear almost verbatim in The Sermon of Shen-hui, indicating that either one was a copy of the other or they had a common source (which could have been the simple setting down of a verbal tradition). It has been pointed out that Shen-hui, who praises Hui-neng to the skies in his sermon, never claims to be quoting the master. Instead, he pronounces as his own a number of passages that one day would be found in the work attributed to Hui-neng. The scholar Hu Shih has drawn the most obvious conclusion and has declared that Shen-hui and his school more or less created the legend of Hui-neng--lock, stock, and sutra. Others refuse to go this far, preferring instead to conclude that Shen-hui and Hui-neng are merely two representatives of the same school. 8. Yampolsky, Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, p. 157. 9. Yampolsky, Ibid., p. 140 10. Wu, Golden Age of Zen, p. 82. 11. See especially "Intimations of Immortality": Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, and cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come . . . 12. Yampolsky, Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, pp. 141-42. 13. Ibid., p. 117. 14. From ibid., pp. 138-39. For interpretive comment see D. T. Suzuki, The Zen Doctrine of No Mind (New York: Samuel Weiser, 1972). 15. Yampolsky, Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, pp. 116-17. 16. 6. MA-TSU: ORIGINATOR OF "SHOCK" ENLIGHTENMENT 1. See Broughton, Kuei-feng Tsung-mi: The Convergence of Ch'an and the Teachings. It was also around this time that the idea of twenty-eight Indian Patriarchs of Zen, culminating in Bodhidharma, was finally ironed out and made part of the Zen tradition. 2. See Arthur Waley, The Life and Times of Po Chu-i (London: Allen & Unwin, 1949). 3. Hu Shih, "Development of Zen Buddhism in China," p. 497. 4. Hu-Shin, "Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism in China," p. 18. 5. For some of Huai-jang's attributed teachings, see Charles Luk, The Transmission of the Mind Outside the Teaching (New York: Grove Press, 1975), pp. 32-37. The reliability of this text should be questioned, however, if we accept Philip Yampolsky's essay in Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, p. 53: "Huai-jang (677-744) . . . is known as a disciple of Hui-neng. Information about him is based on sources composed much later than his death; no mention is made of him in any eighth-century work. . . ."