Platformsutra.org publishes the dharma talk summaries Grand Master Sheng-yen Lu delivers on the Six Patriarch’s Platform Sutra. Grand Master Lu has been regularly giving these sermons during Saturday evening group practices in Redmond, WA. Weekly webcast information can be found on True Buddha School (TBS) Seattle Temple’s web site.

Grand Master Lu refers to the “Six Patriarch’s Platform Sutra” （六祖壇經）as the “Six Patriarch’s Zen Sutra” （六祖禪經）.  In 2008, at the request of students, Grand Master Lu began discoursing on the supreme wisdom Hui Neng, the Six Patriarch of Zen Buddhism imparted twelve hundred years ago. Hui Neng is the founder of the Sudden Enlightenment （頓教）, also known as the Southern school of Zen.  As an enlightened Guru, Grand Master Lu is revered as one of a few qualified teachers capable of interpreting in detail these thesisses so laymen could grasp.

While Grand Master Lu speaks in Mandarin Chinese, the summaries are translated by the True Buddha Translation Teams, a global team of volunteering TBS students dedicated to expanding the reach of Buddha’s teachings through multilingual translations of Grand Master Lu’s 200+ books and an abundance of non-written materials.

About Grand Master Sheng-yen Lu

Grand Master Sheng-yen Lu was born on the eighteenth day of the fifth Lunar month, 1945, in Chia-yi County, Taiwan. He currently resides in the Seattle area in the United States. His religious background includes Christianity, Taoism, Sutrayana and Tantra.

Carrying the lineages of Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyu, and Gelug, Grand Master Lu has been practicing yoga and writing books every single day for over 38 years.   He has attained the most supreme accomplishments of all four schools of Vajrayana.  He is a guru of the Buddhist Tripitaka as well as the knowledge of the supreme consciousness of the universe.

Having achieved Enlightenment, Grand Master Lu is revered by his students as His Holiness, Living Buddha Lian-sheng. To date, over 5 million students from all corners of the world have taken refuge in him. And there are more than 300 volunteering and independent local chapters, including over 35 temples of the True Buddha School, which Grand Master Lu founded.

Grand Master Lu is also a prolific writer with over 200 books in Chinese already in print. Some books, articles and dharma talks have been translated into English and other languages. Many more are currently in the process of translation.

Grand Master Lu’s latest translated book is the English edition of the book #163 – Crossing the Ocean of Life and Death.