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Nanquan Puyuan; bio, 254–55; and the autumn-moon turning-phrases, 82; and King Udayana’s Buddha image, 117; and the fried dumplings, 77; and his greatness of mind, 108; losing both the ox and the fire, 104; and Lu Gen, 173, 249–50; mind is not buddha, 101; and “not knowing it,” 83; not-mind, not-buddha, [not-things], 162–63; rebirth as a water buffalo, 91, 255; and his sickle, 57; and the views of Mañjuśrī and Samantabhadra, 174; visited in his hermitage by a monk, 127; on where he went after death, 208; and the word beyond wisdom, 192; misc., 17, 220, 228, 252, 273, 283
Nanshan Vinaya school, 225–26
Nantang Yuanjing; bio, 255; and demon, 61; ten admonitions, 74–75
Nanyang Huizhong; bio, 255–56; and the circle-figures, 189–90; and the court monk Zilin, 205; let down by his attendant, 53; and the seamless tower, 256; misc., 225, 228, 273
Nanyuan Huiyong; bio, 256; on simultaneous pecking and tapping, 154; and the prophecy on Fengxue, 162; and the staff of the south, 165, 166; misc., 231
Nanyue Huairang; bio, 256–57; and polishing the tile, 122; on practice and realization, 106; and according with the samadhi of formlessness, 186; verse on the mind-ground, 186; misc., 171, 242, 252, 256, 267
nature, see original nature, true nature, self-nature
needle; eye of, 182; tiptoe on the point of, 126
nenbutsu, 237, 279
New Treatise on the Avataṁsaka Sutra, 188, 247
ni (exclamation), 61, 62
Niaoke Daolin; bio, 257; meditating in a pine tree, 176
Nikāyas, Pali, 182
Nine-Dragon Carriage, 161, 243
nirmāṇakāya, 136; Śākyamuni as example of, 44
Nirvana Sutra, 188, 217, 277; on buddha nature, 65
nirvana, 49, 78, 79, 89, 187, 205; ineffable mind of, 119; of Nanyang, 256; and repaying debts, 142; single road to, 121; virtuous practicers not entering, 49; misc.
no-birth, 247, 278
Noble Voice, 117, 118
no-form, four realms of, 147
nonbeing, 184, 193
non-Buddhists, 78, 187
non-Buddhist teachers, 78–79, 214, 252
nondoing, 48, 123, 151
nonduality, 120, 205; of body and mind, 100
Northern school, 238
nostrils, of Indra, 121
nothing to do, people with, 158
no-thought, person of, 106
not-knowing and not-understanding, 186
not-mind, not-buddha, [not-things], 163
ocean; and the four continents, 35; o. of meaning, o. of writing (in the circle figures), 190, 191; throwing a drop of water into the, 113
officially even a needle is not permitted, 152
old woman; burns down a hermitage, 132–33; and Ciming, 144, 159–60; and Deshan at the teahouse, 227; and Linji on his begging rounds, 177; on the road to Mount Wutai, 39–40
On Believing in Mind, 184, 260, 269
one-word barriers, Yunmen’s, 35, 46, 47, 52, 132, 282
ordaination, and nine generations of ancestors reborn in heaven, 94
ordinary mind is the Way, 97
ordination certificate, 131
original emptiness, see emptiness
original face, 12, 71, 83, 156; before your parents were born, 34; is right before you, 184, 199
original nature, 72, 75, 81, 180, 220, 272
Ōtōkan lineage, 10, 11, 17, 246, 254, 265
ox; through a lattice window, 43; as metaphor for darkness (equality), 105; lost at midnight, 104, 105; cart, 122; tending an, 220
oxen; cats and, 83; cannot pull a word from a government office, 81
palm fronds, 71
Pang Yun, see Layman Pang
paper; curtain, 115; half-sheet of, 89; torch, 113, 114
Parinirvāṇa, Buddha’s, 80
Parrot Island, 167
partridge, 84; song, 46; as symbol of homesickness, 46
Patriarch, meaning of coming from the West, 59, 76, 133, 232; see also Bodhidharma, meaning of coming from the West
peace, 187; mind is at, 33, 238; of mind, 37, 72, 250, 275; sitting in, 43; world is at, 104
peach; blossoms, 36–37, 90, 172, 173, 248; branches, 51–52; pit, thousand-year, 194
peak; of another mountain, 90; Dayu P., 33, 116, 201; Eagle P., 126; of Mount Wutai, 227; purple, 95; rugged, 152; solitary, 83, 84, 110, 113; Vulture P., 93, 119; one is not white, 42; of Wondrous Mountain, 90
pearl(s); bright, in the dusts of delusion 201; in the purple-curtained room, 108, 109
pecking and tapping, 154
peddlers, pushing carts under the moon, 128
Pei Xiu, 54; bio, 258; and the Essentials of the Transmission of Mind, 258; misc. 239, 280
perception, 93, 102; and function, 160, 161, 174
periods; five, of the Buddhist teachings, 187–88; ten, of past, present, and future, 175, three, of time, 106
persecution of Buddhism; under Emperor Wuzong, 140, 222, 227, 229, 258, 274, 275, 279; under Emperor Wu, 260
person, 60, 81, 91, 178–79; awakened, 148; at a busy crossroads, 84; clear-eyed, 206, 217; liberated, 143; of no rank, 146–47, 191; of no-thought, no-abiding, nocultivation, and no-attainment, 106; and surroundings, Linji’s views on, 125, 126, 173; on top of a solitary peak, 84
phantom-person, 139
phoenix, 82; of Danshan, 120
pillar; conceiving, 41, 42; in Daitō’s turning-phrases, 127; “does a p. tire?” 179; monk from Silla runs into a, 164; and not perceiving a single dharma, 135; as a symbol of no-mind, 42, 127, 135, 164, 179
pine trees; Linji plants, 161; thousand-foot, 208, 209
Piyun; bio, 258; and Magu’s hand-cloth, 115
plants, Layman Pang’s comment on, 88
Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, 202, 241
Poems of Venerable Longya Judun, 249
Pointing at the Moon Record, 235
Poison-painted Drum (Zudokko), 19
polo, 178
Prajñā Is Not Knowledge, 261
prajñā (wisdom), 62, 193, 198, 251, 261
prajñā-pāramitā; sutras, 176, 188, 242; texts, 254
Prajñātara, 218
pratyekabuddha, 180; offerings to, 106
Precious Flowers of the Lamp Transmission, 270
preta (hungry ghosts), 75, 79, 94, 175
Priests Do Not Bow before Kings, 243
primordial chaos, 41, 42, 142
Prince Nata, 196, 254
principle, 136; abstruse, 36, 168; essential, 122; great, 92; Mañjuśrī as symbol of, 166; marvelous, 279; realm of, 100, 136–37; relation with phenomena, 100, 136–37; of the teaching, 206; teaching through, 142–43; transcendent, 117
Punyayaśas, 215
puppet(s); of Linji, 136; show, 143
Pure Land tradition, 243
Pūrvavideha, 35
Qianfeng, see Yuezhou Qianfeng
Qiannu, 51, 52
Qingliang Taiqin; bio, 258; and the unfinished koan, 77
Qingshui; bio, 258; and best wine of Qingyuan
Qingsu; bio, 258; and the lychee fruit, 123; and the final word, 123; misc., 230
Qingyuan Xingsi, 208, 209, 242, 256, 257, 263, 275, 277
Qinshan Wensui; bio, 258–59; struck and injured by Deshan, 199–200
quietism, 50
rabbit, pushing a cart, 193
rakṣasas, land of the, 60, 280
reality, 56, 84, 136, 184, 198, 199
realizations, ten, 198
realm(s); of the animals, 208; of Buddha, 123, 125; of the dead, 51, 52; of desire, 117, 205, 251; of emancipation, 79; of existence, 75; of form, 205; of formlessness, 205; four dharma r., 100, 136–37; heavenly, 94; of hungry ghosts, 94; infinite, 175, 94; of Mara, 123, 125; of no-form, 147; of nothingness, 99; of phenomena, 100, 136; of principle, 100, 136; of pure clarity, 150; of the universe, 100; of the unobstructed and mutual interpenetration of principle and phenomena, 100, 137; of the unobstructed and mutual interpenetration of phenomena and phenomena, 100, 137; see also t
hree realms
reason, in the Buddha’s teaching, 67, 142
rebirth, 232; of Devadatta as a buddha, 228; endless r. of the deluded, 232; as a fox, 58; after the Great Death, 129; in the heavenly realms, 94; of Maitreya, 251; in the Pure Land, 243; as a sage, 63; and the supernatural powers of Yunmen, 139; in the Three Realms, 205; as a water buffalo, 73, 208
Record of Ciming, 193
Record of Daitō, 21
Record of Dongshan, 94, 166
Record of Equanimity, 10, 239; and the three types of sickness, 44; Case 13, 164; Case 14, 171; Case 18, 65; Case 38, 147; Case 44, 181; Case 47, 38; Case 57, 36; Case 79, 49, 220–21; Case 87, 56; Case 89, 137; Case 100, 180
Record of Foyan, 179
Record of Langye, 183
Record of Layman Pang, 88
Record of Linji, 10, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 29, 52, 84, 86–87, 136, 147, 148, 149, 150, 158, 161, 162, 164, 172, 173, 180, 225, 250, 260, 273; English translations of, 20–21; and exhausting karma, 48; on slaying the Buddha, 52
Record of Songyuan, 173
Record of the Source Mirror, 279
Record of the Transmission of the Dharma in the True School, 233
Record of the True School of Linji, 56
Record of Xutang, 10, 17, 21, 80, 128
Record of Yunmen, 169–70
Recorded Sayings of Muzhou, 16
Recorded Sayings of the Ancient Worthies, 17
Recorded Sayings of Xutang, “Alternate Answers,” 276
red flesh, hunk of, 146, 147
red threads, 126
red-bearded foreigner, 58
relics (śarīra); and Danxia, 64; and Emperor Xianzong, 194–95
Rentian yanmu, 161
renunciation, Huangbo’s three levels of, 63
rice; gruel, 38; importance of one grain of, 177, 178
rivers, the birds, the trees…, all chant the name of Dharma, 229
Rivet-and-Shears Hu (Hu Dingjiao); bio, 239; driving a rivet into the void, 109; misc., 108
robe, 93, 98; of Buddha, 74, 175; of Ciming, 145–46; monk’s, 93; paper, 170, 285; purple, 131, 223, 233, 263, 267, 281, 285; of the Sixth Patriarch, 33–34, 201, 242; smelly, 158; split in two, 182
robe and bowl of the Sixth Patriarch, 33–34, 201, 242
Ruiyan Shiyan; bio, 259; calling to the Master, 39
Śākyamuni; bio, 259; and Devadatta, 103, 227–28; and the Golden-Millet Tathāgata, 100; holds up a flower, 110, 119; as the Old Foreigner, 51, 52; as the skillful weaverwoman, 206; transmission of the Dharma to Mahākāśyapa, 93, 119; and a woman in samadhi, 67–68, 89; misc., 34, 58, 139, 198, 227, 228, 233, 247, 251, 269; see also Buddha
salt; or sauce, 70; selling privately on a public highway, 183
samadhi, 64, 79; Flower Adornment, 185; formless, 186; of the infant, 192; Jeweledmirror, 266; of the Joyful Play of the Lion, 148; light of, 44; in the Lotus Sutra, 68; and Maitreya, 251; and “ocean of meaning,” 191; of perfect freedom, 45; in the Śūraṅgama Sutra, 64; of a woman, 67–68, 89
Samantabhadra; bio, 259–60; and the attainment of Dharma freedom, 185; as the Elephant King, 160; and the function of teaching and practice, 188; and the light of wisdom, 44; and Mañjuśrī, 44, 150, 161, 166, 174, 251, 259; and Mount Emei, 40; losing his domain, 188; riding a white elephant, 150; and Vairocana, 188; misc., 251, 267
samāpatti, 121
śamatha-vipaśyanā, 231, 278
saṃbhogakāya, 43, 136; Amitābha Buddha as example of, 43
samsara, 52, 205, 280; see also birth-and-death
sangha; destroying the harmony of, 86, 87, 103, 228; and Devadatta, 103, 228; do not join the, 78–79; expulsion from the, after breaking the precepts, 138; government control of, 131, 243; merit of donating food to, 182; ordination certificates and, 131; seek nothing from the, 79, 196
Sanghadeva, 243
Sanjaya Belatthiputta, 252, 260
Sanlun school, 255
Sansheng Huiran; bio, 260; and Linji’s Dharma, 164; and Nanquan’s death, 208; misc., 108, 109, 273
sanzen, 104, 118
Śariputra; bio, 260; misc., 183, 228, 252
Sarvāstivāda school, 243
seal of realization, 135, 136
seamless tower of Nanyang, 256
Second Patriarch (Huike), see Huike
secret koan records (missan roku), 17–18
seeing self-nature and attaining buddhahood, 206
Seiryō-ji (Kyoto), 118
self-nature, 81, 206, 264; see also original nature, true nature, mind-nature
Semblance Dharma, age of, 120
Sengcan (Third Patriarch); bio, 260; and no duality in the Dharma, 184; misc., 240
Sengzhao, 84; bio, 260–61; treatises of, 261
senses, six, as ‘the six teachers’, 78
separate teaching transmitted outside the sutras, 66, 75, 111, 119
service for others; Huike, 241; koans on; “Guishan’s ‘Water Buffalo”,’ 73; “Nanquan’s ‘Water buffalo’,” 91; “Nantang’s ‘Other Realms’,” 74–75
sesame rice-cakes, 89, 90
Seven Buddhas of the Past, 58, 139, 203; transmission verses of, 139
seven destinations, 187; see also six realms of existence
seventh consciousness, 130
Shangu (poet Huang Tingjian); bio, 261; and the sweet-olive blossoms, 44–45
Shanguo Yue’an, 265
Shending Hongyin; bio, 261; and his encounter with the Lion of West River, 145–46; misc., 233
Shenxiu, 238
Shexian Guixing; bio, 261; and Shoushan’s stick, 118
Shide, 237
Shinchi Kakushin, 271
Shishuang Chuyuan (Ciming); bio, 262; and the bowl of water, 129; and Dadao Guquan, 144; eccentricities, 100, 128, 129, 144, 145–46; as enlightened teacher, 14; entrusting the Great Matter to Yangqi, 152; foolish or wise, 100; Huanglong receiving stick from dawn to dusk, 159; and “Hundred-foot Pole” koan, 49; Lion of West River, 145–46, 262; and the original face, 134; and the single word, 134; and his tiger’s roar, 145; on the Way, 193; and his woman, 144, 159–60; and a wild, uncut meadow, 152; and the winter solstice signboard, 128, 129; and Yangqi’s turningphrase, 144; misc., 123, 223, 231, 236, 240, 258, 276
Shishuang Qingzhu; bio, 262–63; and a grain of rice, 178; and the grass by the monastery gate, 137; and the springless lock, 78; misc., 238, 250, 282
Shishuang Xingkong; bio, 263; and the man in a well, 76
shit, dry piece of, 46
Shitou Xiqian; bio, 263; and advice from the Sixth Patriarch, 208; “In Praise of Identity,” 111; misc., 225, 226, 257, 268
Shōchū Debate, and Shūhō Myōchō, 265
Shoukuo; bio, 264; and the sages of old, 171; misc., 231
Shoushan Shengnian; bio, 264; and the Buddha’s lotus-blue eyes, 110; and the Noble Voice, 118; and the skillful weaverwoman, 206; and his stick, 118; and the sutra from which all buddhas issue, 72; misc., 231, 234, 261, 270
shout(s), 184, 203; blind and wild, 109; consecutive s. by Ciming and Yangqi, 152; that deafened Baizhang for three days, 151; and guest examining host, 150; Linji’s, 109, 148, 157, 227, 249; and Sansheng’s blind ass, 164; and the stick, 66, 108, 142, 249, 252, 283; by Linji’s two head monks, 149; and the word ni, 62; by Xinghua and the blind-oaf monk, 153; by Yantou at his death, 278
Shouzhou Liangsui; bio, 264; at Magu’s gate, 141
shrine, earth-spirit, 114
Shuangshan Yuan; bio, 264; and the windbleached signpost, 53
Shūhō Myōchō (Daitō Kokushi); bio, 264–65; and his doubts about Musō, 181; and Gojō Bridge, 264–65; and “iron,” 142; and his three questions, 100; and his three turning-phrases, 127; misc., 10, 17, 246, 254, 268
Shui’an Shiyi; bio, 265; and the barbarian with no beard, 101
Shūmon kattōshū; Ansei edition, 18–19; additional koans in Ansei edition, 18; Daitoku-ji school and, 18; Genroku edition, 18, 26; Hakuin Zen and, 19; Hekizen hekigo and, 18; history of, 10–11, 15–19; Japanese koans
in, 10; Japanese Rinzai school and, 11; Kajitani Sōnin edition, 19–20; kinshishū and, 18; koans from the Blue Cliff Record, 16; koans from the Record of Linji, 16; koans from the Record of Xutang, 17; koans from the Wumen guan, 16; and the Kuzō kattōshō, 15; meaning of the title, 15–16; Myōshin-ji school Tōkai lineage and, 18; Ōtōkan lineage and, 10–11, 17–18; Sōtō school and, 18; Xutang Zhiyu and, 17
Shushan Guangren; bio, 265–66; and Dongshan’s transmission of the Dharma to Caoshan Benji, 266; 56; “being” and “nonbeing,” 54–56; and paying for the memorial tombstone, 116–17
sickle, Nanquan’s, 57
sickness; three types of, 43, 44; see also illness
signpost, broken, 53
Śikhin Buddha, 58
silence and speech, 85
silent illumination Zen, 224, 237, 239, 262
Silla, 217; monk from, 163–64
sin(s), 192; five deadly, 86–87
single road to nirvana (enlightenment, liberation), 100, 103, 121
sitting cloth, 59, 109, 115, 217; to spread, 59
Śiva, 182
six earth-shakings, 147–48
six realms of existence (six paths, six ways), 75, 187 205, 263
Sixin Wuxin; bio, 266; and the fragrance of the sweet-olive blossoms, 45
Sixth Patriarch (Huineng); and the banner in the wind, 86; and the circle-figures, 190; criticizing Wolun, 202; and any explanation is off the mark, 106; wise friend and teacher, 94; misc., 225; see also Huineng
Skanda, 182
skandhas; five, 92, 93; ceaselessly produced by the mind, 92
sky; Baoshou’s applying the staff to, 108, 109; cloudless, 64; empty, 59; Great Pure, 41, 42; radiant phoenix dances in, 82
sleeves, shaken, 82, 83, 110, 152, 172
smile, of Mahākāśyapa, 119
snake; biting a monk, 204; dead in the road, 98, 99; iron s. across the ancient road, 82; tail of a, 163, 204; well-bucket rope mistaken for, 194
snow; covers a thousand mountains, 42; a silver bowl filled with, 217; and a snowy egret, 38
snowy egret, 38
solitary peak, 83, 84, 110, 113
Song of Enlightenment, 184
Songshan Hui’an; bio, 266–67; misc., 106, 257
Songyuan Chongyue; bio, 267; on Langye Huijue, 183; on Linji and Zhaozhou’s “washing my feet” mondō, 172; and his three turning-phrases, 126; misc., 93, 252, 281
Southern Cross, 120
Southern school of Zen, 238, 242
special transmission outside the teachings, 66, 75, 111, 119