A Wikipedia article on Huineng, recording that he is also commonly known as the Sixth Patriarch or Sixth Ancestor of Chan Buddhism, and discussing the process of his attaining enlightenment as a recurring subject of later East Asian Zen painting. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here to confirm Huineng's standard identity as the Sixth Patriarch and his enlightenment as a recognized subject of Zen painting, independently corroborated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's own catalogue naming an actual 1635 to 1645 scroll of the same subject. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huineng
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Huineng directly: "A Wikipedia article on Huineng, recording that he is also commonly known as the Sixth Patriarch or Sixth Ancestor of Chan Buddhism, and discussing the process of his attaining enlightenment as a..."
Source Huineng (Wikipedia)
Claims Backed By This Source (8 claims)
This source backs 8 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Figures, 1 claims: 1 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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