Case 41: Touzi’s Great Death
- Title in Sullivan (2021): Touzi’s Great Death
- Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Chao Chou’s Man Who Has Died the Great Death
- Title in Sekida (2005): Jōshū and the Great Death
- Named characters (in Pinyin):
- Zhaozhou Congshen (778-897)
- Touzi
- Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
- Chao Chou
- T’ou Tzu
- Named characters (in Japanese):
- Jōshū
- Tōsu
- Other koan collections:
- The Book of Equanimity, Case #63
- The True Dharma Eye, Case #136
- Seonmun yeomsong seolhwa, Case #726.
- 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) (see excerpt)
- Gyomay Kubose (contained in Zen Koans, page 248, 1973)
- Gerry Shishin Wick (contained in The Book of Equanimity, 2005)
- John Daido Loori (contained in The True Dharma Eye, 2005)
- Kurt Spellmeyer (dharma talk and audio dharma talk 1 and 2)
- Dainin Katagiri (audio dharma talk 1 and 2)
- Ken Morgareidge (audio dharma talk)
- John Fraser (dharma talk 1 and 2)
- Genjo Marinello (audio dharma talk)
- Shinge Sherry Chayat (video dharma talk)
- Yamada Kôun (dharma talk with paywall)
- Scholarly commentaries:
- Kusumoto Bunyū (contained in Zengo Nyūmon, Zengo 37, 1982)