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  Index

  A fragrant breeze blows from the south, 92

  A radiant phoenix dances in the sky, 82

  absolute, and relative, 175

  activity, 203; and essence, 191

  admonitions; of Nantang Yuanjing, 74, 75; of Tettō Gikō, 175

  Āgama sutras, 182, 188

  ālaya-vijñāna (eighth, seed, or storehouse consciousness), 42, 130

  Amitābha Buddha, 43, 215, 279; Pure Land of, 243

  Amitābha Sutra, 229

  Analects, 45, 97, 111, 134

  Ānanda; bio, 213; and the flagpole, 119; misc., 227, 251;

  Ancestor Zen, 272

  Andō Yoshinori, 17–18

  Aṅgulimāla; bio, 213–14; as arhat, 213; and the difficult delivery, 139–40; as mass murderer, 213

  Anthology of the Ancestral Hall, 139

  Anthology of Yongjia of the Chan School, 279

  Aparagodānīya, 35

  Arada Kalama, 259

  arhat, 147; killing of, 86, 87; offerings to, 106

  arjaka tree, 61

  Āryadeva (Kānadeva); bio, 214; misc., 183, 217

  Āryasiṁha; bio, 214; paying karmic debt, 141

  Aśvaghoṣa; bio, 215; misc., 183

  attachment; after arrival, 44; to dualistic thought, 15; to food, shelter, and clothing, 63; to liberation, 5; no place for, 62, 63; to no-thought, 35–36; to the relative, 44; and “slaying the mother,” 87; to the teachings, 188; and using things skillfully, 170; to words and concepts, 16

  Avalokiteśvara; and Mount Putou
, 40; and a sesame cake, 89, 90; misc., 40, 189, 215

  Avataṃsaka Sutra; the four dharma realms of, 136–37; “the Great Sea doesn’t harbor corpses,” 138; and the mind is like an artist, 92; and the six earth-shakings, 148; misc., 40, 90, 135, 168, 185, 188, 218, 230, 232, 255, 257, 267, 269

  awareness without thought, marvelous functioning of, 277

  awl-point wiles, 128

  Azure Palace, 193

  Bai Juyi (Governor); bio, 215–16; and Niaoke Daolin, 176

  Baiyun Shouduan; bio, 216; and verse on ‘Linji’s three-score blows of the stick’, 167; and Wuzu Fayan, 201; misc., 219, 271

  Baizhang Huaihai; bio, 216–17; and the autumn moon turning-phrases, 82; deafened by Mazu’s shout, 151, 179; and the fox, 57; and monastic labor, 105, 216; “no work, no eating,” 105, 216; and Pure Rules for the Zen Community, 216; and teaching through principle, 143; and Mazu’s whisk, 150–51; and the wild ducks, 151; misc., 108, 220, 235, 239, 252, 258, 263, 272, 273, 275

  Baizhang Weizheng; bio, 217; and Nanquan Puyuan, 162–63; and the new rice paddy, 92; misc., 162, 225

  Bajiao Huiqing; bio, 217; and the staff, 79–80

  Baling Haojian; bio, 217; and the clear-eyed person falling into a well, 206

  bamboo; hit by Xiangyan’s tile, 49; moving rocks, 208, 209; shades, 59

  bandit, 58; heart of, 171; Yantou killed by, 278; see also thief

  banner(s); scarlet, 87; signaling a Dharma lecture, 119; in the wind, 86

  Baoshou Zhao; bio, 217–18; and striking the clear blue sky, 108, 109

  Baozang lun, 261

  barbarian; and confusion, 70; has no beard, 101; old, 197, 198; from the south, 241

  barefoot Persians, 65, 66; as Bodhidharma, 66

  basket(s); bottomless, 98, 99; of silk-growers wives, 49

  begging (mendicancy), 177, 266; bowl, 139

  Beijian Jujian; bio, 218; verse, 93

  being, 184, 193; is beyond merit, 138

  being and nonbeing, 54–56, 184, 193; and Dahui, 55; and Shushan, 54–55; and vines, 54–56

  bell; announcing mealtime, 47; b. tower, 69; that resounds throughout the universe, 183; and putting on one’s vestment, 130; as a time indicator in the monastery, 159; and Hakuin’s enlightenment, 237

  Bhikku Meghaśri; bio, 218; on Wondrous Mountain, 90

  Bhishmottaranirghosha, 90

  bhūtatathatā, 132

  Big Dipper, 120

  Biographies of Eminent Monks, 245

  Biographies of Monks of the Zen School, 188, 223, 245, 266

  bird(s); alighting in front of the blue cliff, 95; with a broken wing, 198; leaves the clouds, 152; unseen, 152

  birth-and-death; escaping from, 36; great matter of, 197; and karma-creating activities, 48; misc., 214, 215, 232, 247, 253, 263, 278, 279

  blind ass, and Linji’s Dharma, 164

  blows; sixty, Huangbo and Linj’s, 107; thirty, of Guishan, 105; three-score, 158, 159, 167; misc., 105, 162, 163, 174, 250

  Blue Cliff Record, 3, 10, 11, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 29, 30, 173, 231, 274, 281; Case 1, 75, 197; Case 4, 114; Case 6, 139; Case 8, 91, 184, 246, 264; Case 9, 195; Case 11, 151, 158, 196; Case 12, 74, 159, 173; Case 13, 206; Case 16, 154; Case 17, 169–70; Case 18, 76, 203, 256; Case 19, 80; Case 20, 133; Case 23, 90; Case 24, 174; Case 26, 175; Case 27, 107; Case 28, 80, 163; Case 33, 132, 221; Case 35, 180; Case 36, 165, 171; Case 38, 14, 166; Case 42, 48; Case 43, 166; Case 48, 109, 194, 205; Case 49, 164; Case 51, 143, 197; Case 52, 202; Case 53, 151; Case 55, 60, 77; Case 58, 269; Case 66, 98; Case 76, 225; Case 79, 169; Case 82, 195; Case 84, 101, 102; Case 87, 168; Case 89, 137; Case 90, 91; Case 97, 72, 114; English translations of, 20–21

  bo dove, 61

  Bo, master craftsman of Lu, 168

  board-carrier, 98, 99

  bodhi; all the eye perceives is, 178; b. tree, 83, 242, 259; b. meeting, 185

  bodhicitta, nature of, 237

  Bodhidharma; bio, 218; as barefoot Persian, 66; didn’t come to China, 103; and Emperor Wu; intention expressed through devices, 142; meaning of coming from the West, 37–38, 45, 142, 172; “no merit,” 75; and a pillar tiring, 179; as red-bearded foreigner, 58; true transmission of, 179; misc., 198, 233, 240; see also Patriarch, meaning of coming from the West

  Bodhisattva Delusion, 68, 89

  bodhisattvas, 147; faces, 71

  body and mind, distance between, 134

  bowl; begging, 139; brittle, 53; Deshan carries his, 70; and Emperor Taizong, 201; of water, 129, 205, 214; misc., 47, 48

  boxwood Zen, 55–56

  Boyi and Shuqi, not eating the grain of Zhou, 99

  Brahma Heaven, 68; Lord of, 187

  Brahma Net Sutra, 71

  bridge, Zhaozhou’s stone, 202

  Buddha; and Aṅgulimāla, 139–40; birth verse, 104; Great Purpose of, 125; pointing to the earth and sky at birth, 103; realm of B. versus realm of Mara, 123, 125; relics of, 194–95; relics, light of, 194–95; as represented by garuḍa, 181; requiting the benevolence of, 104; seeking nothing from, 78, 196; supernatural powers, 148; teaching expressed through reason, 142; in the Trāyastrimśa Heaven, 117, 118; never turning the Dharma wheel, 80; misc., 136, 180, 280; see also Śākyamuni

  buddha(s); becoming a b. by sitting in zazen, 122; concept of, 194; inherently perfect b., 146; and “not knowing it,” 83; b. lands, 165; is not limited to any fixed form, 122; as medicine for sentient beings, 125; is the Mind King, 234; b. names, 165; offerings to, 106; place from which all b. come, 92; realm of, 123, 125, 187; seven b. of the past, 89; shedding the blood of a, 86, 87; of the ten directions, 68; thirty-two distinguishing characteristics of a, 117, 118, 204; three bodies of a, 43; is this very mind, 35, 101, 224, 227, 232, 234, 263

  Buddha Flower Adornment Samadhi, 185

  buddha image, Danxia Tianran’s burning of, 64

  buddha nature, 5, 65, 66, 83, 122, 180, 183; of a dog, 65

  Buddha of Great Universal Wisdom Excellence, 69

  Buddhadharma, 66, 69, 135, 151, 167; central teaching of, 176; Huangbo’s, 157; is like the moon in the water, 284; true meaning of, 156, 157, 167

  buddhahood, 72, 81, 101, 189, 199; intrinsic, 146; no thought of seeking, 48; seeing self-nature and attaining b., 206

  buddha-mind, as springless lock, 78

  buffalo; and Guishan’s rebirth, 73, 75; and Nanquan’s death, 208, 255; Fu Dashi riding on, 233; passing through a lattice window, 43; and the “person who knows it,” 91; as symbol of self-nature, 206; chasing Mañjuśrī and Samantabhadra into a herd of, 166

  bull, white, on the bare ground, 220

  Burton Watson, 22

  cakravartin (wheel king), 118, 128, 129

  Caodong school; and Longya Judun, 133; Wuzu Fayan’s comment on, 86; misc., 219, 222, 225, 229, 231, 257

  Caoshan Benji; bio, 219; and the Great Sea not harboring corpses, 138; and Qingshui, 102; and the snow on the mountains, 42; misc., 229, 266

  Caoxi, 94

  carp, of the Eastern Sea, 121

  Categorized Anthology of the Zen Forest, 204

  cats, 83

  cause and effect; and people of true practice, 57–58; as one of Daitō’s three questions, 100

  center, hold to the, 72, 73

  Chaling Yu; bio, 219; enlightenment verse, 201; misc., 216

  Changqing Huileng; bio, 219; and his staff, 203

  Changqing Huileng; bio, 219–20; and sitting like a burnt stump, 219–20; misc., 230

  Changqing Lan’an (Guishan Lan’an); bio, 220; being and nonbeing, 54–56; and Lu Gen laughing and crying, 173; and vines clinging to a tree, 54–56

  Changsha Jingcen; bio, 220; and “the entire universe is your body,” 221; and the “Hundred-foot Pole” koan, 49; and the moon, 171; and Nanquan’s death, 208; and “not knowing it,” 83; and original emptiness, 141; and Yangshan Huiji, 171; misc., 238, 255

  Changsheng Jiaoran; bio, 221; and Lingyun’s “a pillar conceives,” 41

  Changshui Zixuan; bio, 221; and pure, original nature, 180; misc., 247

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  Chen Cao; bio, 221; calling to monks from a tower, 132

  chestnut burr, 55, 56

  chicken, from Chu, 120

  Chinese calendar, eight divisions of, 187

  Chouyan Liaoyun; bio, 221; on Zhaozhou’s “Wu” koan, 65

  Chronicles of the Shin Dynasty, 61

  Chuandeng yuying ji (Precious flowers of the lamp transmission), 270

  Chuanzi Decheng (Boatman Monk); bio, 221; and the dharmakāya is without form, 200; and Jiashan’s enlightenment, 244

  Ciming, see Shishuang Chuyuan

  circle-figures, 189–90, 225, 277; six names of, 190–91; text on, 190

  citta, 130

  clear eyes, see eyes, clear

  clear-eyed, 87, 126; master, 143; monk, 184; a c. person falls into a well, 206, 217

  clouds; bird leaves the, 152; blocking the valley, 144; marking the Great Pure Sky, 41

  Cockfoot Mountain, 175

  Collected Poems of Cold Mountain, 205

  compassion; Avalokiteśvara as a symbol of, 215; the Buddha’s, 228; in demonstrating the Ten Realizations, 199; falling into hell as an act of, 40; of Fu Dashi, 234; as a fundamental aspect of Zen training, 151; of the head monk toward Linji, 156; and the mind of the ancient buddhas, 230; of Nanyuan’s stick, 154; of a parent, 152, 171; Samantabhadra as a symbol of, 166

  Compendium of the Five Lamps (Wudeng huiyuan), 10, 17, 49, 81, 87, 95, 105, 109, 133, 151, 178, 208, 209, 223; and exclamation ni, 62

  Comprehensive Record of Yunmen, 90

  Comprehensive Treatise on the Avataṃsaka Sutra, 247

  conduct, four modes of, 129

  Confucius, 44, 111; hear of the Way in the morning, 97

  consciousness; as apart from Mind-essence, 263; deluded, 65; all dharmas are nothing but, 230; essence of, 64; karmic, 65, 179; levels of, 130; as the Matrix of the Thus-Come-One, 180; as one of the skandas, 93; and the realm of formlessness, 205; storehouse, 42, 130; and Yogācāra, 42

  continents (northern, eastern, western, and southern; Pūrvavideha, Aparagodānīya, Uttarakuru, Jambudvīpa), 35, 129, 182

  corpses, not harbored in the Great Sea, 138

  court monk,141, 142, 205, 238

  crimes, five heinous, 86–87; meaning of to Linji, 87

  Cui Hao; bio, 222; and “The Yellow Crane Pavilion,” 165

  Cui Langzhong; bio, 222; and enlightened teachers falling into hell, 40

  Cuiwei Wuxue; hitting Longya with a meditation-brace, 133; misc., 249, 269

  Cuiyan Lingcan, 246, 279