A Study of Hu Shi’s Scholarship on the Platform Sutra

Abstract

Hu Shi used Yabuki Qinghui’s photographed copy of the London Library version and as the most credible source in his research on Huineng’s Platform Sutra. The most recent scholarship shows that this conclusion about Platform Sutra is necessary for further study. This paper uses hermeneutics as its research method, makes a study of Hu Shi’s scholarship of the Platform Sutra, the study will be approached by focusing on Hu Shi’s work on Huineng and Shenhui, and famous modern scholars’ the most recent scholarship on Hu Shi.