The Bodhidharma Anthology: The Earliest Records of Zen, by Jeffrey L. Broughton

The discovery in the early twentienth century of a small, walled up cave within the Mo-Kao Grottoes outside the oasis town of Tun-huang in northwest China has led to the retrieval of a lost ch'an (Zen) literaturefrom T'ang Dynasty times (618-907). One of this recovered Zen Texts is the Bodhidharma Anthology, a collection of seven pieces ...