Case 1: The Emperor Asks Bodhidharma
© Dave Needham, 2019
- Title in Sullivan (2021): The Emperor Asks Bodhidharma
- Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): The Highest Meaning of the Holy Truths
- Title in Sekida (2005): Emperor Wu Asks Bodhidharma
- Named characters (in Pinyin):
- Bodhidharma (n.d.)
- Liang Wudi (or “Emperor Wu of Liang”) (464-549)
- Zhi Gong (or “Baozhi” or “Master Zhi”) (418-524)
- Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
- Bodhidharma
- Emperor Wu of Liang
- Master Chih
- Named characters (in Japanese):
- Daruma
- Ryō Butei
- Master Shi.
- Other koan collections:
- The Book of Equanimity, Case #2
- Seonmun yeomsong seolhwa, Case #98.
- 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)
- Gyomay Kubose (contained in Zen Koans, page 12, 1973)
- Seung Sahn Sunim (contained in The Compass of Zen, page 263, 1997)
- Gerry Shishin Wick (contained in The Book of Equanimity, 2005)
- Shunryu Suzuki (dharma talk 1 and 2)
- Yamada Kôun (dharma talk)
- Robert Aitken (dharma talk)
- Mary Jaksch (dharma talk)
- Stefano Mui Barragato (dharma talk)
- Dainin Katagiri (audio dharma talk 1 and 2)
- Norman Fischer (audio dharma talk)
- Kurt Spellmeyer (audio dharma talk 1 and 2)
- Genjo Marinello (audio dharma talk)
- Henry Shukman (audio dharma talk)
- Ken Morgareidge (audio dharma talk)
- Taigen Dan Leighton (audio dharma talk)
- Geoffrey Shugen Arnold (audio dharma talk)
- Yamada Kôun (dharma talk with paywall)
- Matthew Juksan Sullivan (animated koan)
- Scholarly commentaries:
- Andrew Ferguson (pdf)
- Mark Strange (contained in Asia Major, 2018 3d vol. 31.1:119 pdf)
- Kusumoto Bunyū (contained in Zengo Nyūmon, Zengo 8 and Zengo 31,1982)