It is true that Huineng, the sixth ancestor of Zen Buddhism, could not write. Huineng (Lu Sanba ~ Qi Yisan) was a distinguished monk in the early Tang Dynasty and the sixth generation founder of Chinese Zen Buddhism. His common surname is Lu. He was originally from Fanyang (the county is located southwest of today's Beijing) and was born in Xinxing, Guangdong. He lived and taught the Dharma in Guangdong. Huineng (AD 638-713), whose common surname was Lu, lost his father when he was three years old, and his family was poor. When he was older, he made a living by cutting fuel and selling firewood to support his mother. At the age of twenty-four, Huineng resigned from his mother and became a monk and went to Huangmeidong Mountain in Qizhou to pay homage to Master Hongren, the Fifth Patriarch. Master Huineng, the sixth ancestor of Zen Buddhism, made a living by chopping firewood since he was a child. He could not read or write a word throughout his life. His only work, the "Sixth Patriarch's Altar Sutra", is a record of his disciples' remarks during his lifetime. However, among all the Buddhist works written by the Chinese, only the Tan Sutra written by the Sixth Patriarch Huineng is respectfully called "Jing", while the works of others can only be called "Lun", which shows his status in the history of Chinese Buddhism. The Sixth Patriarch passed away in the summer of the third year of Qiyi AD, when the weather was hot and humid in the south. His body has been preserved without any embalming treatment and has not decayed for nearly 300 years. During the Anti-Japanese War, Japanese soldiers stationed at Nanhua Temple. They did not believe in his miraculous powers, so they cut open the body of the Sixth Patriarch from the back and found that all the internal organs were intact. Only then did they believe that the Buddha's teachings were boundless, put the body back together, paid homage and left. The physical body of the Sixth Patriarch is now kept intact in the Guangdong History Museum