Painting: "The Sixth Patriarch tearing up a Sutra", depicting the Sixth Patriarch of the Chan (Zen) sect, Huineng (638-716), tearing up a sutra after attaining Enlightenment, bearing an ecstatic expression and a holding up a piece of a torn-up sutra. Huin

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Title	Painting: "The Sixth Patriarch tearing up a Sutra", depicting the Sixth Patriarch of the Chan (Zen) sect, Huineng (638-716), tearing up a sutra after attaining Enlightenment, bearing an ecstatic expression and a holding up a piece of a torn-up sutra. Huineng is said to have been illiterate and proud of his sect's independence from scriptural sources.
Shelfmark	3411
Note	Huineng 慧能 Liang Kai 梁楷
Scanned from	Fontein, J. & M. L. Hickmann. ZEN PAINTING AND CALLIGRAPHY. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1970, p. 18, pl. 6. (SI XVII.510.2)

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