Case 69: Nanquan Stops Halfway
- Title in Sullivan (2021): Nanquan Stops Halfway
- Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Nan Ch’uan’s Circle
- Title in Sekida (2005): Nansen Draws a Circle
- Named characters (in Pinyin):
- Nanquan
- Guizong Cezhen (aka Huichao) (d. 979)
- Magu
- Nanyang Huizhong (aka Guoshi Zhong or “National Teacher Zhong”) (d. 775)
- Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
- Nan Ch’uan
- Kuei Tsung
- Ma Ku
- National Teacher Chung
- Named characters (in Japanese):
- Nansen
- Kisu
- Mayoku
- Chū Koshi
- Historical commentaries:
- Chan Masters Miaozong, Baochi and Zukui (contained in Zen Echoes, Beata Grant, 2017)
- 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)
- Dainin Katagiri (contained in You Have Something to Say: Manifesting Zen Insight, 2000)
- Dainin Katagiri (audio dharma talk)
- Kurt Spellmeyer (audio dharma talk)
- Henry Shukman (audio dharma talk)
- Genjo Marinello (audio dharma talk)
- Bodhin Kjolhede (audio dharma talk)
- David Keizan Scott (audio dharma talk)
- Shinge Sherry Chayat (video dharma talk)
- Yamada Kôun (dharma talk with paywall)
- Scholarly commentaries:
- Kusumoto Bunyū (contained in Zengo Nyūmon, Zengo 20, 1982)