The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment

Korean Buddhism's Guide to Meditation

With the Commentary by the Chosôn Monk Kihwa

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Excerpts (All footnotes, Chinese characters, and some diacritics are removed)

• First page of the Book's Introduction
• Kihwa's Life
• Kihwa and the Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment
• What is Ignorance? (from Chapter 1)
• The Questions of Samantabhadra (from Chapter 2)
• The Five Natures and the Two Hindrances (from Chapter 5)
• Kihwa's Parable of the Castle (from Chapter 8)
• The Four Maladies (from Chapter 10)

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• Comments by the SUNY Press Reviewers
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