Sutra of the Buddha Answering the Great Heavenly King Brahmā’s Questions [大梵天王問仏決疑経] (Chin Ta-fan-t’ien-wang-wen-fo-chüeh-i-ching; Daibontennō-mombutsu-ketsugi-kyō): A sutra esteemed by the Zen (Ch’an) school in China and Japan. It describes how Shakyamuni transmitted his enlightenment without words to Mahākāshyapa. The Zen school regards this transmission as its origin. Because the translator of the sutra is unknown, and because it does not appear in any of the catalogs of Chinese translations of Buddhist scriptures, there is a strong possibility that it originated in China.