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37: 72: 1202:(1089–1163), wrote many letters to lay students teaching the practice of concentrating on koans during meditation, but Dahui did not explain and analyze koans. Oral tradition holds that Dahui noticed students engaged in too much intellectual discourse on koans, and then burned the wooden blocks used to print the 1172:
Yuanwu first presented it as a series of lectures to his students between 1111 and 1117. It appears these lectures occurred during the traditional 90-day summer retreats, as can be seen from his introduction to the 100th Case, where he writes: "All summer I've been verbosely making up
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for the first time, and stayed up all night making a handwritten copy of the book. Given the size of the book, this story is most likely apocryphal; but Dogen is still credited with introducing the collection to Japan, where it had a wide circulation. The
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sect of Zen. After an extended visit to China for the purpose of studying Chan, on the night before his planned return to Japan, Dogen came across the
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The composite work consisting of the one hundred cases, along with poetry added by Xuedou and prose commentary by Yuanwu, is collectively known as the
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was a subtle and literary text, with wide-ranging philosophical implications, in contrast to the more straightforward nature of
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because it is a shorter, simpler text, but all the cases in both texts are independent and could be studied in any sequence.
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derives its name from the temple where Yuanwu Keqin wrote most of his commentaries, the Blue Cliff Cloister (碧巖院,
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The garden of flowers and weeds : a new translation and commentary on the Blue Cliff record
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complications... and tripping up all the monks in the land." Written a hundred years before
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The Garden of Flowers and Weeds: A New Translation and Commentary on the Blue Cliff Record
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Original Chinese text with embedded Chinese-English dictionary at NTI Reader
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The Garden of Flowers and Weeds: a New Commentary on the Blue Cliff Record
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again became one of the most influential works of Zen literature.
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The text was reconstituted only in the early 14th century by a
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The book includes Yuanwu's annotations and commentary on
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Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record
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Index

Pi Yen Lu
禪 Zen
a series
Zen Buddhism
Ensō
Zen
Chinese Chan
Japanese Zen
Korean Seon
Vietnamese Thiền
Zen in the United States
No-mind
Original enlightenment
Buddha-nature
Turning the light around
Kenshō
Satori
Sudden awakening
Ten Ox-Herding Pictures
Five ranks of Tozan
Hakuin's Four ways of knowing
One Vehicle
Bodhisattva ideal
Buddhahood
Zen and Sutras
Doctrinal background of Zen
Representation-only
Emptiness
Zazen
Six Perfections

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