Case 26: Baizhang’s Wonderful Affair

Case 26: Baizhang’s Wonderful Affair

• Title in Sullivan (2021): Baizhang’s Wonderful Affair
• Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Pai Chang’s Sitting Alone on Ta Hsiung Mountain
• Title in Sekida (2005): Hyakujō Sits on the Great Sublime Peak
• Named characters (in Pinyin):
  • Baizhang
• Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
  • Pai Chang
• Named characters (in Japanese):
  • Hyakujō
• 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 202, 1973)
  • Shunryu Suzuki (dharma talk)
  • Ming Qi (exegesis)
  • Stefano Mui Barragato (audio dharma talk)
  • Eran Junryu Vardi (audio dharma talk)
  • Kurt Spellmeyer (audio dharma talk 1 and 2)
  • Ken Morgareidge (audio dharma talk)
  • Peggy Sheehan (audio dharma talk)
  • Yamada Kôun (dharma talk with paywall)
• Scholary commentary:
  • Mario Poceski (contained in Zen Masters, page 13, ed. by Steven Heine and Dale Wright, 2010)
  • Steven Heine (contained in Opening a Mountains, page 46, 2002).
  • Kusumoto Bunyū (contained in Zengo Nyūmon, Zengo 61, 1982)