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Titles of some popular works   Charles Luk (1898-1978)
  • The Secrets Of Chinese Meditation

  • Transmission Of The Mind Outside The Teaching

  • Practical Buddhism

  • Ordinary Enlightenment: A Translation of the Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra (with Taizan Maezumi Roshi)

  • Empty Cloud: The Autobiography of the Chinese Zen Master Xu Yun

  • The Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra. Wei Mo Chieh So Shuo Ching (Ed.Tr.)

  • Ch'an And Zen Teaching. Volume I-III (Ed.Tr.)

  • Surangama Sutra. Leng Yen Ching (Tr.)

  • Taoist Yoga
     

 

Chinese-born translator of Chinese Buddhist Texts, writer of Ch’an Buddhism.
 

Born in Canton in 1898 as Lu Kuan Yu.

His first Master was Hutuktu of Sikang, an enlightened Great Lama of both Kagyu and Gelug lineages. His second Master was the Venerable Ch'an Master Hsu Yun, the best-known modern Ch'an Master, who urges him to translate Chinese Buddhist texts. Dedicated the last 20 years of his life, from 1956, to this cause. First visited Europe in 1930s and met Christmas Humphreys in 1935.

Throughout his life Lu K'uan Yu contributed to Buddhist publications in India, London, Paris, and New York, for he passionately devoted his life to presenting Chinese Buddhist texts to Westerners because he wanted to preserve Buddhism. 

 
 
 
 
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