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Zen version B’s short preface appears to have been authored by the editor of the ‘Baolin zhun’ www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780190681159.001.0001/acref-9780190681159-e-480;jsessionid=17025378FDB85E35922A780684FC105E around the turn of the ninth century Since that editor wanted to portray the ‘Forty-Two sections Sutra’ -- which he had to cleverly used as a host for his reformist “Zen” agenda -- as the first sermon of the Buddha after his enlightenment, his “Zen Version B” text, of course, situated the action of the Deer Park in Saranath where the Buddha first taught (turned the dharma wheel of the Four Noble Truths); see Table 8

De Guignes’s translation of this preface makes one doubt his grasp of classical Chinese and confirms that he would hardly have been in a position to produce the translations in his ‘History of the Huns’ de Guignes, by contrast, have “The Buddha said: A home-leaver or ‘sramana’ cuts off all desire and frees himself from attachment, understands the source of his own mind, attains the Buddha’s profound principles, and awakens to the doctrine of wu-wei”** (literally - nonaction) was interpreted by de Guignes as “religion of annihiliation”> it was thus exactly the eight-character-phrase “know the mind / reach the source / understand the doctrine of wu-wei”) that the Zen editor had slipped into the opening passage that inspired de Guignes to define the relation of the Samaneens as a “religion of annihilation.” He found this ideal confirmed in other passage of his ‘Forty-Two Sections Sutra.” The second section which is also exclusive to the Zen version is shown in Table 7. ~ Page 131/132

** Wu wei (Chinese: 無為; pinyin: wúwéi) is an ancient Chinese concept literally meaning "inexertion", "inaction", or "effortless action"[a].[1][2] Wu wei emerged in the Spring and Autumn period, and from Confucianism[citation needed], to become an important concept in Chinese statecraft and Taoism

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