Case 3: Great Master Ma Is Ill

Case 3: Great Master Ma Is Ill

• Title in Sullivan (2021): Great Master Ma is Ill
• Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Master Ma is Unwell
• Title in Sekida (2005): Baso’s “Sun-faced Buddha, Moon-faced Buddha”
• Named characters (in Pinyin):
  • Mazu Daoyi (aka Great Master Ma) (709-788)
• Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
  • Ma Tsu
• Named characters (in Japanese):
  • Baso
• Other koan collections:
  • The Book of Equanimity, Case #36
• Historical commentaries:
  • Hakuin Ekaku and Tenkei Denson (contained in Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record, Thomas Clearly, 2002)
• Modern commentaries:
  • Matthew Juksan Sullivan (contained in The Garden of Flowers and Weeds, 2021)
  • Barry Magid (contained in Nothing is Hidden, Ch. 10, 2013, and audio dharma talk)
  • Gyomay Kubose (contained in Zen Koans, page 224, 1973)
  • Gerry Shishin Wick (contained in The Book of Equanimity, 2005)
  • Robert Aitken (contained in Mind Moon Circle, pages 7-12, Autumn 1999)
  • Shunryu Suzuki (dharma talk 1 and 2 and pdf)
  • Stefano Mui Barragato (dharma talk)
  • John Fraser (dharma talk)
  • Judith Ragir (dharma talk)
  • Mike Shoryu Fieleke (audio dharma talk)
  • Karin Kempe (audio dharma talk)
  • Dainin Katagiri (audio dharma talk 1 and 2)
  • Linda Cutts (audio dharma talk)
  • Amala Wrightson (audio dharma talk)
  • Kathy Blackman (audio dharma talk)
  • Ken Morgareidge (audio dharma talk)
  • Jay Rinsen Weik (audio dharma talk)
  • Geoffrey Shugen Arnold (audio dharma talk 1 and 2)
  • Kurt Spellmeyer (audio dharma talk)
  • Henry Shukman (audio dharma talk)
  • Peggy Sheehan (audio dharma talk)
  • Douglas Floyd (audio dharma talk)
  • Shodo Harada (dharma talk and calligraphy)
  • Genjo Marinello (audio dharma talk and video dharma talk)
  • Shikai Zuiko (Zen box)
  • Yamada Kôun (dharma talk with paywall)
• Scholarly commentaries: 
  • Mario Poceski (contained in the Records of Mazu and the Making of Classical Chan Literature, page. 233, 2015)
  • Jinhua Jia (contained in The Hongzhou School of Chan Buddhism, pages 58 and 130, 2006)
  • Steven Heine (contained in Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record, page 200, 2016)