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some people cite the Lankavatara Sutra’s passage on gradual cultivation as a proof that what Great Master Bodhidharma transmitted was gradual practice Zen, paying no attention to a later passage on the equal importance of the sudden and the gradual. This is really the epitome of crudity and shallowness.
A polemical overview of the Chan school from an energetic and opinionated modernist.