Case 8: Cuiyan’s Eyebrows

Case 8: Cuiyan’s Eyebrows

• Title in Sullivan (2021): Cuiyan’s Eyebrows
• Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Ts’ui Yen’s Eyebrows
• Title in Sekida (2005): Suigan’s Eyebrows
• Named characters (in Pinyin):
  • Cuiyan Lingcan (n.d.)
  • Baofu Congzhan (d. 928)
  • Changqing Huileng (854-932)
  • Yunmen Wenyan (864-949)
• Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
  • Ts’ui Yen
  • Pao Fu
  • Ch’ang Ch’ing
  • Yun Men.
• Named characters (in Japanese):
  • Suigan
  • Hofuku
  • Chōkei
  • Ummon
• Other koan collections:
  • The Book of Equanimity, Case #71.
• 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 172, 1973)
  • Gerry Shishin Wick (contained in The Book of Equanimity, 2005)
  • Yamada Kôun (dharma talk)
  • Stefano Mui Barragato (dharma talk)
  • Dainin Katagiri (audio dharma talk 1 and 2)
  • Peggy Sheehan (audio dharma talk)
  • Jay Rinsen Weik (audio dharma talk)
  • Bodhin Kjolhede (audio dharma talk)
  • Rinzan Pechovnik (audio dharma talk)
  • Kurt Spellmeyer (audio dharma talk 1 and 2)
  • Yamada Kôun (dharma talk with paywall)
• Scholarly commentaries: 
  • Kenneth Kraft (contained in Eloquent Zen, page 36, 1992)
  • Kusumoto Bunyū (contained in Zengo Nyūmon, Zengo 3 and Zengo 22, 1982)