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hemp, three pounds of, 74
Hengchuan Rugong, 236
hermit(s); and the girl, 132–33; checked by Zhaozhou, 160; princes Boyi and Shuqi living as, 99
Heze Shenhui, 242, 256
Hongren (Fifth Patriarch); bio, 238; and Huineng, 241–42; misc., 34, 257, 266, 271
Hongzhi Zhengjue; bio, 238–39; eight phrases of, 193; and the four uses of activity and essence, 191
horse(s); of Haidan, 120; as metaphor for no-mind, 185; wooden, 184
host; examines the guest, 150; examines the host, 150; neither guest nor h. by the fireside, 177; trying to play the, 153
host and guest, 191; Linji’s views on, 109, 135, 136, 149–50
hou; and Yunmen, 132; and Mujaku, 132; as the Sanskrit syllable “hu” (suchness), 132
House Sayings of Confucius, 80
household spirits, 89
Hu Dingjiao; bio, 239; and driving a rivet into the void, 109
Huangbo Weisheng; bio, 239; and a fierce tiger sits in the road, 69
Huangbo Xiyun; bio, 239; and Baizhang, 151; on the bodhisattva mind, 62–63; bowing before a buddha image, 196; and the Essentials of the Transmission of Mind, 258; and Linji’s training, 156–58; and Linji’s pine trees, 161–62; offering Baizhang’s backrest and armrest to Linji, 93; on the three levels of renunciation, 63; and Zhaozhou’s visit, 107; misc., 110, 217, 235, 248, 252, 253
Huanglong Huinan; bio, 240; and Baiyun Shouduan’s verse on Linji, 167; and Ciming’s “old woman,” 159–60; and raising vegetables down by the meditation bench, 69; and receiving Ciming’s stick from dawn to dusk, 159; the Three Barriers of, 38–39; and Yunfeng’s criticism of his understanding, 159; and Zhenjing’s verse on the Yellow Crane Pavilion, 167; misc., 123, 230, 239, 242, 249, 262, 284
Huanglong line, 240
huatou, 4
Huayan school; and Changshui Zixuan, 221; doctrine of the four realms, 100, 136–37
Huike (Second Patriarch); bio, 240–41; didn’t go to India, 63, 103; mind of, 33; paying karmic debt, 141; misc., 218, 260
Huiming (senior monk); bio, 241; original face of, 34; and the Sixth Patriarch’s robe and bowl, 33–34, 201
Huineng (Sixth Patriarch); bio, 241–42; robe and bowl of, 33–34; verse on “fundamentally not one thing exists,” 242; and Wolun’s verse on meditation, 202; misc., 238, 241, 256, 257, 263, 278; see also Sixth Patriarch
Huitang Zuxin; bio, 242; and the sweet-olive blossoms, 44–45; misc., 266
Huiyuan; bio, 242–43; and Mount Lu, 242; questions to Kumārajiva, 243; role in establishing Buddhism in China, 242–43; and Sengzhao, 261; and Tiger Creek, 155
Huizhao Qingyu, 265
human birth, loss of, 71
hundred-foot pole, 49, 219, 220
hungry ghosts (preta), 75, 79, 94, 175
Huo’an Shiti; bio, 243; misc., 101
Huqiu Shaolong, 223, 278, 281
Hutou (senior monk); bio, 243; and Xiangyan’s “person up a tree,” 45
ignorance, 146, 148; fundamental, 65, 179; as one of three poisons, 44, 130; see also delusion
illness; and ghee, 122; of Layman Pang, 88; Liangjie’s comments on, 229; the one who suffers no, 229; of Vimalakīrti, 269, 270; of Yuanwu, 280
Imperial Library, 207
In Praise of Identity (poem), 111
Indra (Indian god), 35; nostrils, 121; and the seven wise women, 60
infirmary; and death, 58, 129; “going down to the,” 128, 129; Qinshan visits after being hit by Deshan, 200
insentient, preaching of the, 228–29
Inzan lineage, 19
iron; dragon-head, 120; mountains, 35; snake, lying across the ancient road, 82
Iron-Wheel Emperor, 128, 129; see also cakravartin
Jambudvīpa, 35, 182
Ji Xin, 161; bio, 243
Jianfu Chenggu; bio, 244; and the emptiness of emptiness, 187
Jiashan Shanhui; bio, 244; and the Central Matter of Zen, 96–97; and the dharmakāya is without form, 200; and enlightenment under “Boatman Monk” Chuanzi, 244; on the dead snake, 98–99; and his surroundings, 95; misc., 222, 250, 266
Jingde-era Record of the Transmission of the Lamp, 10, 17, 173, 208, 214, 226, 235, 247, 249, 255, 256, 270, 276
Jingqing Daofu; bio, 244–45; and not perceiving a single dharma, 135; misc., 166, 231
Jingshan Faqin, 257, 268
Jingshan Hongyin; bio, 245; and Xuefeng’s Dharma, 167–68
Jingzhao Mihu (Qishi); bio, 245; and the thousand-year peach pit, 194; and the well-bucket rope, 195
Jue Tiezui; and Zhaozhou’s comment on the juniper tree in the garden, 38; see also Guangxiao Huijue
Juefan Huihong; bio, 245; and Doushuai’s “final word,” 123–24;
juniper tree in the garden, 37–38, 59, 70, 283; and Kanzan Egen’s “works like a thief,” 59
Juzhou Baotan; bio, 245–46; and the disciples of Mazu and Linji, 108
kalpa; of emptiness, 72, 73; types of, 185
Kānadeva, see Āryadeva
Kanakāmuni Buddha, 58
Kanzan Egen; bio, 246; as an ancestor of the Ōtōkan lineage, 10, 17; and the Garuḍa King, 181; and the inherently perfect buddha, 146; and “no birth-and-death at my place,” 197; and “Zhaozhou’s Juniper Tree,” 59; misc., 10, 17, 254, 265
Kapimala, 253–54
karmic; consciousness, 65, 179; debts, 241; obstructions, 141, 157; seeds, 42, 130; ties, 126
Kāśyapa Buddha; bio, 246–47; and the seven wise women, 60; verse of, 247; misc., 57, 58
kenshō, 5
kill; mother and father, 52, 86, 87; Buddha, 52, 104, 122; arhat, 52, 86; a dead snake, 98, 99; Wu Yuanji, 125, 126; cattle, 192; and give life, 155, 160, 168, 198, 199; a white elephant, 227
King Bimbisāra, 227
King of Dharma, 279
King Udayana, 117, 118
kleśa, 16, 130, 207
koans; and language, 12–13, 16; and texts, 12–13; unfinished, 77
koan-introspecting Zen, 224, 239
koan work; and checking questions, 5; definitions of, 1; entanglements, 5; and logic, 2; meaning of, 1–5, 11–13; metaphors for, 1–2; and Rinzai sect, 5; secret records of (missan roku), 17–18; and the Sōtō sect, 5; as upāya, 143; and Westerners, 3; Zen masters’ comments on, 2, 4, 5
Kogetsu Zenzai, 49
Kōhō Kennichi, 181, 253, 264
Kosen Ingen, 285
Krakucchanda Buddha, 58
Kśitigarbha; and Mount Jiuhua, 40; as Yanmo, 61
Kumārajiva, 205; and Huiyuan, 243; and Sengzhao, 260, 261
Kuzō kattōshō, 15
labor; see monastic labor
Langye Huijue; bio, 247; and the great bell, 183; on Linji’s perception and function, 160; and pure original nature giving rise to the great earth,180; and Yunmen’s requiting the benevolence of the Buddha, 104; misc., 50, 221
Laṅkāvatara Sutra, 255
Lanxi Daolong, 254
Latter Age of the Dharma, 120
lay brother, 34
Layman Pang (Pang Yun); bio, 257; and daughter’s death, 88; illness of, 88; and swallowing the water of the West River, 48; and the plants, 87–88; and the plum pit, 76; verse on drawing water and carrying firewood, 257; and Yu Di, 88; misc., 224, 225, 280
li (unit of measurement), 131
Li Bo (poet), 165, 222, 237
Li Tongxuan; bio, 247; and the wisdom-waters of the Dharma realm, 187
Li Ying (Governor); bio, 247; and Zhaozhou’s stone bridge, 202
Li Zunxu, 280
Liang, of Wufeng; bio, 248; and his koan collection, 190
liberation; of other beings, 40, 44, 73, 74, 75, 89, 114, 126, 152, 215, 237, 266; through sudden awakening, 226
life, giving and taking away, 37, 155, 160, 168, 198, 199
light; beam of wondrous, 193; of the Buddha’s relics, 194–95; of the buddhas’ wisdom, 90; of the eyes, 36; of a lamp, 154; as a metaphor for duality, 105; of the mind turned inward, 34; of an old buddha, 116; shining forth, 201; two types of, 43, 44
Lingshu Rumin; bio, 248; retained supernatural powers, 139; misc., 282
Lingyun Zhiqin; bio, 248; and awakening through circumstances, 37; and peach tree blossoms, 36–37; and a pillar conceiving, 41; misc., 219, 235
Linji Yixuan; bio, 248–49; and begging in the capital, 177; comments on the guest and host, 149; and Dayu, 157; and a different way of doing things, 133; the Four Perceptions and Functions of, 161, 174; and the four positions on the person and the surroundings, 125, 173; and the four realms of no-form, 147; and the four shouts, 148; and hitting Longya with a cushion, 133; and the hunk of red flesh, 146; on life and death, 149; and a man atop a solitary peak, 83–84; Memorial Tower Inscription of, 218; and planting pine trees, 161–62; and the qualities of his disciples, 108–10; and refusing Baizhang’s backrest and armrest, 93; and Sansheng the blind ass, 164; and teaching through devices, 143; seven steps beyond, 208; and the Three Statements, 135–36; and the three vehicles’ twelve divisions of teachings, 181; training under Huangbo, 156–57; and the true meaning of Huangbo’s three-score blows, 179; and the true person of no rank, 191; the true teachings of, 145; and Zhaozhou, 172, 173; misc., 17, 166, 217, 218, 227, 239, 249, 250, 256, 260, 273, 275, 285
Linji school; end of, 264; Wuzu Fayan’s comment on, 86; misc., 231, 257, 276
Linji’s Dharma, true transmission of, 207
Lion of West River, 145, 146, 262
lion, 149, 150, 160; golden-haired, 120, 148; and Mañjuśrī, 150, 161; riding a, 149; true cub of a, 38
Little Jade, Wuzu’s poem on, 95
Liu Bang (General), 243, 271–72
Liu Gongquan, 92
lock, springless, as buddha-mind, 78
Longqing Qingxian; bio, 249; and Huanglong’s three statements, 38
Longtan Chongxin; bio, 249; and the paper torch, 113; misc., 200, 227, 268
Longya Judun; bio, 249; and no meaning to the Patriarch’s coming from the West, 133; misc., 268
Lotus Sutra; and the arjaka tree, 61; and Buddha of Great Universal Wisdom Excellence, 69; “Earning a living and producing things,” 111; and the land of the rakṣasas, 60; and the one great [purpose] of the buddhas, 125; samadhi in, 68; misc., 188, 228, 231, 233, 267
lotus, blooming in the twelfth month, 116, 117
Lu Gen (Governor); bio, 249–50; laughs and cries at Nanquan’s funeral, 173; misc., 255
Lu Xiujing, 155
Luohan Guichen, and the stone in Fayan’s mind, 230
Luopu Yuan’an; bio, 250; and a single follower of the Way free of thought, 106
Luoshan Daoxian; bio, 250; comments of Shushan’s memorial tombstone, 116; misc., 252
Lushan Huguo, 188
Ma Fang; bio, 250; and the remaining shout, 148
Madhyamaka school, 254, 255
Magu Baotie; bio, 251; and digging weeds with a spade, 141; the hand-cloth and the question of death, 115; misc., 258, 264
Mahākāśyapa; bio, 251; and Ānanda lowering the flagpole, 119; Buddha’s transmitting the Dharma to, 93, 119; smiles, 119; transmitting the Dharma to Ānanda, 175; misc., 213
Mahāparinirvāṇa Sutra, 232
Mahāprajñā Sutra Preached by Mañjuśrī, 49
Mahā-prajñā-pāramitā Sutra, and the six earth-shakings, 148
Mahāvyutpatti, 118
Maitreya; bio, 251; descending to this world, 175; as Fu Dashi, 234; as someone’s servant, 34; and Yangshan given the second seat, 85; misc., 267
man; atop a solitary peak, 83, 84; at a busy crossroads, 83–84
manas, 130
Mañjuśrī; bio, 251; asking the Buddha to turn the Dharma wheel, 80; and Buddha Flower Adornment Samadhi, 185; and the lion, 160; and Mount Wutai, 40, 136, 251, 282; and Samantabhadra, 40, 44, 150, 160–61, 166, 174–75; and Sudhana gathering herbs, 168; symbolic meaning of, 40, 166; and Vimalakīrti, 117; and the woman in samadhi, 67–68, 89; and Wuzhuo’s questioning, 136; misc., 150, 218, 260, 270, 282
Manora; bio, 251; transmission verse, 50
mano-vijñāna (seventh consciousness), 130
Mara, realm of, 123, 125
marvelous principle, 279
Master, Ruiyan Shiyan calling to the, 39
Maudgalyāyana; bio, 251–52; and the Buddha image, 117; mother in the realm of the hungry ghosts, 94; the supernatural powers of, 94, 117; misc., 228, 260
Mazu Daoyi; bio, 252; and according with the samadhi of formlessness, 186; and the autumn-moon turning-phrase, 82–83; deafening Baizhang with a shout, 179; and Deng Yinfeng, 197; not lacking salt or sauce, 70; this very mind is buddha, 35, 224, 232; not mind, not buddha, 35, 224; and Nanyue polishing a tile, 122; on the nature of ordinary mind, 97; qualities of his disciples, 108–10; and swallowing the West River, 48; and teaching through principle, 142–43; and the wheelbarrow, 197; and the whisk, 150–51; and the wild duck, 151; misc., 216, 217, 224, 225, 226, 228, 232, 234, 235, 239, 251, 255, 257, 268, 273, 285
medicinal herbs, 168
meditation; seated, 122; in monastic life, 69; and thought, 35, 202
meeting a buddha, slay the buddha, 52
Meghaśri, Bhikku, 90
melon, Shūhō Myōchō and the, 265
memorial tombstone, 116, 117
Mencius, 152
merit; no attachment to, 62–63; being is beyond m., 138; of donating to the sangha, 182; of Emperor Wu’s good actions, 75; of the follower of the Way, 106; offerings yield no, 78, 179; and the revolving sutra library, 234
Mian Xianjie; bio, 252; and the brittle bowl, 53; and Deshan carrying his bowls, 48; and the single path to enlightenment, 103; misc., 264, 267, 278
midnight, 174, 175; lost the ox at, 104–5; Mañjuśrī and Samantabhadra formulating views at, 174–75; as metaphor for darkness (equality), 105, 175; moonlight shone on the window at, 91
millstone, eight-sided, 120
Mind King, 234
Mind Seal, 122
mind; arises again and again, 202; and the banner in the wind, 86; and body, distance between, 134; as buddha, 35, 101, 224, 227, 232, 234, 263; ceaselessly produces the five skandhas, 92; as citta, 130; as the eighth consciousness (ālaya-vijñāna), 130; grasping m. with m., 184; of the Great Sage of India, 111; misuse of, 81, 236; of nirvana, 119; ordinary, 97; original, 234, 235; past m. is unobtainable, 227; peace of, 33, 72, 250, 275; phantom-person’s, 139; returning to its source, 277; is the root, 226; is the source of all, 224; no striving with, 214; thief has no peace of, 37
mind-essence, 263
mind-ground, 186; Dharma eye of the, 186
mind-nature, is not produced and cannot be destroyed, 232
mind-seal, secretly transmitted from the West, 232
mind-to-mind transmission, 4, 66, 75, 119
Mingzhao Deqian; bio, 252; on “being” and “nonbeing,” 55
mirror; ancient, 65; as symbol of buddha nature, 65; and enlightenment, 41; smashing the m. of infinite luminosity, 41; smashing Guishan’s m., 131
Miscellany of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya, 104
monastic labor, 58, 105, 174, 207, 246; and Baizhang, 105, 216; in the fields, 99; in the garden, 69, 165; in the mountains, 57, 127; see also work
mondō (questions-and-answers), 16, 166
money, 72, 73, 115, 120
monkeys, clasping their young, 95
monument, broken, across an old road, 86
moon; autumn, 82; crosses the nighttime sky, 193; illuminates the clear pool, 135; isn’t full, is full, 169; as a metaphor for the enlightened mind, 171; pushing carts under the, 128; reflected in water, 263, 284; supported by branches of coral, 217
moonlight; playing a lute in the, 38; shining on the window at midnight, 91; and the well-bucket rope, 194
mortal offenders, 86, 87
mother, 34, 52, 86–87, 104, 117–18, 140, 196, 214, 241, 253, 261, 280; Maudgalyāyana’s, 94; meaning of to Linji, 87
Mount Emei; and Samantabhadra, 40; symbolic meaning of, 40
Mount Jiuhua, as abode of Kśitigarbha, 40
Mount Lu, 155, 201, 218, 226, 235, 241, 242, 244, 265, 284; Zen monks of, 201
Mount Putou, 40, 189; as abode of Avalokiteśvara, 40
Mount Shaohua, collapse of, 131
Mount Sumeru, 35, 129, 175; five in the eye of a gnat, 74; using for a brush, 59
Mount Tai (Wutai), 39–40; as abode of Mañjuśrī, 40; and Deng Yinfeng, 227; and the old woman, 39–40; symbolic meaning of, 40; misc., 136, 251, 282
mountains; Double Iron-Ring, 174, 175; endless blue, 65; m., rivers, and the great earth, 180, 199, 207
Mujaku Dōchū, 21; on the board-carrier, 99; on the broken monument and the watchman, 87; on Ciming closing the gate and the fire in the grave, 145; on confusion, 70; on Dadao, 145; on Daitō’s comment about Musō, 181; on demolishing the walls of Caizhou and killing Wu Yuanji, 126; on Deshan as a bandit, 171; on the function of the whisk, 151; on a half-sheet of paper, 89; on household spirits, 89; on Jiashan, the monk, and the pit, 96–97; on Jiashan’s dead snake, 99; on leaving confusion behind, 70; on Magu’s hand-cloth, 115; on the monk bitten by a snake, 204; on peach brooms, 52; on Qiannu and her spirit, 52; on the walls of Caizhou, 126; on the word hou, 132; on Xutang’s “This old monk blundered,” 98; on Zhaozhou and the well, 98
Mūla-madhyamaka-kārikā (Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way), 254
Musō Soseki; bio, 252–53; 246; and Daitō, 181; and the Garuḍa King, 181; and Kanzan Egen, 181; on teaching through principle, 142–43; misc., 10, 284
Muzhou Daozong (Daoming); bio, 253; and Governor Wang, 178–79; and Yunmen Wenyan, 282; misc., 221, 270
Myōan Eisai (Yōsai), 240
Myōshin-ji, 246
Myōshin-ji school, 17–19; Tōkai lineage of, 18
Myōsō Saitetsu, 285
Mysterious Gates, three, of Linji, 136
Nāga King, draws his sword, 138
Nāgārjuna; bio, 253–54; misc., 183, 196, 214, 255, 260, 261,
Nalakūvara; bio, 254; eight-armed, 65, 66; misc., 196
Nanpo Jōmyō (Daitō Kokushi); bio, 254; and iron, 142; and Musō Soseki, 181; and his two turning-phrases, 127; and his three questions, 100; misc., 10, 17, 181, 224, 246, 264, 265, 276, 281
