Foreword | p. xi |
Preface | p. xv |
Introduction | p. xvii |
Guide to Chinese Pronunciation | p. xxxi |
Original Preface to the Blue Cliff Record | p. xxxiii |
The Highest Meaning of the Holy Truths | p. 1 |
The Ultimate Path is Without Difficulty | p. 10 |
Master Ma Is Unwell | p. 18 |
Te Shan Carrying His Bundle | p. 22 |
Hsueh Feng's Grain of Rice | p. 31 |
Yun Men's Every Day is a Good Day | p. 37 |
Hui Ch'ao Asks about Buddha | p. 46 |
Ts'ui Yen's Eyebrows | p. 53 |
Chao Chou's Four Gates | p. 59 |
Mu Chou's Thieving Phoney | p. 66 |
Huang Po's Gobblers of Dregs | p. 72 |
Tung Shan's Three Pounds of Hemp | p. 81 |
Pa Ling's Snow in a Silver Bowl | p. 88 |
Yun Men's Appropriate Statement | p. 94 |
Yun Men's Upside-Down Statement | p. 98 |
Ching Ch'ing's Man in the Weeds | p. 104 |
Hsiang Lin's Meaning of the Coming from the West | p. 110 |
National Teacher Chung's Seamless Monument | p. 115 |
Chu Ti's One-Finger Ch'an | p. 123 |
Lung Ya's Meaning of the Coming from the West | p. 129 |
Chih Men's Lotus Flower, Lotus Leaves | p. 139 |
Hsueh Feng's Turtle-Nosed Snake | p. 144 |
Pao Fu's Summit of the Mystic Peak | p. 154 |
Kuei Shan and Iron Grindstone Liu | p. 159 |
The Hermit of Lotus Flower Peak Holds up His Staff | p. 164 |
Pai Chang's Sitting Alone on Ta Hsiung Mountain | p. 172 |
Yun Men's The Body Exposed, The Golden Wind | p. 176 |
Nan Ch'uan's Truth That's Never Been Spoken | p. 181 |
Ta Sui's It Goes Along with It | p. 187 |
Chao Chou's Big Turnips | p. 191 |
Ma Ku Carrying his Ring-Staff | p. 194 |
Elder Ting Stands Motionless | p. 202 |
Ministry President Ch'en Sees Tzu Fu | p. 206 |
Yang Shan Asks "Where Have You Come From?" | p. 211 |
The Dialogue of Manjusri and Wu Cho | p. 216 |
Ch'ang Sha Wandering in the Mountains | p. 221 |
P'an Shan's There Is Nothing in the World | p. 226 |
Feng Hsueh's Workings of the Iron Ox | p. 231 |
Yun Men's Flowering Hedge | p. 240 |
Nan Ch'uan's It's like a Dream | p. 244 |
Chao Chou's Man Who Has Died the Great Death | p. 249 |
Layman P'ang's Good Snowflakes | p. 253 |
Tung Shan's No Cold or Heat | p. 258 |
Ho Shan's Knowing How to Beat the Drum | p. 264 |
Chao Chou's Seven-Pound Cloth Shirt | p. 270 |
Ching Ch'ing's Sound of Raindrops | p. 275 |
Yun Men's Six Do Not Take It In | p. 279 |
Turning Over the Tea Kettle at Chao Ch'ing | p. 284 |
San Sheng's Golden Fish Who Has Passed through the Net | p. 290 |
Yun Men's Every Atom Samadhi | p. 294 |
Hsueh Feng's What Is It? | p. 297 |
Chao Chou Lets Asses Cross, Lets Horses Cross | p. 305 |
Pai Chang's Wild Ducks | p. 309 |
Yun Men Extends Both Hands | p. 314 |
Tao Wu's Condolence Call | p. 317 |
Ch'in Shan's One Arrowpoint Smashes Three Barriers | p. 324 |
Chao Chou's Stupid Oaf | p. 330 |
Chao Chou Can't Explain | p. 334 |
Chao Chou's Why Not Quote It Fully? | p. 337 |
Yun Men's Staff Changes into a Dragon | p. 341 |
Feng Hsueh's One Atom of Dust | p. 347 |
Yun Men's Within There Is a Jewel | p. 352 |
Nan Ch'uan Kills a Cat | p. 358 |
Nan Ch'uan Questions Chao Chou | p. 361 |
An Outsider Questions the Buddha | p. 364 |
Yen T'ou's Getting Huang Ch'ao's Sword | p. 371 |
Mahasattva Fu Expounds the Scripture | p. 376 |
Yang Shan's What's Your Name? | p. 381 |
Nan Ch'uan's Circle | p. 386 |
Kuei Shan Attends on Pai Chang | p. 391 |
Wu Feng's Shut Up, Teacher | p. 395 |
Pai Chang Questions Yun Yen | p. 398 |
Ma Tsu's Permutations of Assertion and Denial | p. 401 |
Chin Niu's Rice Pail | p. 408 |
Wu Chiu's Unjust Beating | p. 412 |
Tan Hsia's Have You Eaten Yet? | p. 418 |
Yun Men's Cake | p. 424 |
Sixteen Bodhisattvas Go In to Bathe | p. 428 |
T'ou Tzu's All Sounds | p. 432 |
Chao Chou's Newborn Baby | p. 437 |
Yao Shan's Shooting the Elk of Elks | p. 443 |
Ta Lung's Hard and Fast Body of Reality | p. 449 |
Yun Men's Ancient Buddhas and the Pillar | p. 454 |
Vimalakirti's Gate of Nonduality | p. 459 |
The Hermit of T'ung Feng Makes a Tiger's Roar | p. 466 |
Yun Men's Kitchen Pantry and Main Gate | p. 472 |
Medicine and Disease Subdue Each Other | p. 477 |
Hsuan Sha's Guiding and Aiding Living Beings | p. 482 |
The Hands and Eyes of the Bodhisattva of Great Compassion | p. 489 |
Chih Men's Body of Wisdom | p. 496 |
Yen Kuan's Rhinoceros | p. 501 |
The World Honored One Ascends the Seat | p. 506 |
Ta Kuang Does a Dance | p. 510 |
The Surangama Scripture's Not Seeing | p. 514 |
Ch'ang Ch'ing's Three Poisons | p. 519 |
Chao Chou's Three Turning Words | p. 525 |
The Diamond Cutter Scripture's Scornful Revilement | p. 532 |
T'ien P'ing's Travels on Foot | p. 539 |
Su Tsung's Ten-Body Controller | p. 546 |
Pa Ling's Blown Hair Sword | p. 554 |
Biographical Supplement | p. 559 |
Traditional Teaching Devices | p. 634 |
Select Glossary of Names and Terms | p. 642 |
Bibliography | p. 647 |
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