The Surangama Sutra (Newly composed text edition)  (Paperback, Charles Luk (translator))

This important sermon contains the essence of the Buddha’s teaching and, as foretold by Him, will be the first sūtra to disappear in the Dharma ending age. It reveals the law of causality relating to both delusion and enlightenment and teaches the methods of practice and realization to destroy forever the roots of birth and death. It aims at breaking up ālaya, the store consciousness, whose three characteristics are: self-evidencing, perception and form, by means of the three meditative studies of noumenon which is immaterial, of phenomenon which is unreal and of the ‘Mean’ which is inclusive of both, and leads to the all-embracing Śūraṅgama samādhi which is the gateway to Perfect Enlightenment and reveals the nature of the Tathāgata store of One Reality. This revised edition of The Śūraṅgama Sūtra has been translated by Charles Luk and comes with a commentary by Ch’an Master Han Shan.