Case 28: The Nirvana Master Explains it to Death
- Title in Sullivan (2021): The Nirvana Master Explains it to Death
- Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Nan Ch’uan’s Truth That’s Never Been Spoken
- Title in Sekida (2005): What the Holy Ones Have Not Preached
- Named characters (in Pinyin):
- Nanquan
- Nirvana Master of Baizhang Mountain
- Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
- Nan Ch’uan
- Nirvana Master of Pai Chang Mountain
- Named characters (in Japanese):
- Nansen
- Hyakujō Nehan Oshō
- Other koan collections:
- The True Dharma Eye, Case #249.
- 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 249, 1973)
- John Daido Loori (contained in The True Dharma Eye, 2005)
- Dainin Katagiri (audio dharma talk)
- Genjo Marinello (audio dharma talk)
- Diane Fitzgerald (audio dharma talk)
- Stefano Mui Barragato (audio dharma talk)
- Jay Rinsen Weik (audio dharma talk)
- Kurt Spellmeyer (audio dharma talk 1 and 2)
- Yamada Kôun (dharma talk with paywall)
- Matthew Juksan Sullivan (animated koan)