Note f101 — HISTORY OF ZEN BUDDHISM FROM BODHI-DHARMA TO HUI-NENG (YENO) (520 A.D.–713 A.D.) (continued 2)

These accounts, whether truly historical or not, concerning the controversy between the two leaders of Zen early in the T‘ang dynasty prove how heated was the rivalry between the North and the South. The Sermons of the Sixth Patriarch (Fa-pao-tan-ching) itself appears as if written with the sole object of refuting the opponents of the “abrupt” school.