Case 99: The National Teacher Answers the Emperor
- Title in Sullivan (2021): The National Teacher Answers the Emperor
- Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Su Tsung’s Ten-Body Controller
- Title in Sekida (2005): “Chū Kokushi and the Ten-bodied Herdsman”
- Named characters (in Pinyin):
- Suzong Di (or Emperor Suzong of the Tang) (711-762)
- Nanyang Huizhong (aka Guoshi Zhong or “National Teacher Zhong”) (d. 775)
- Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
- Emperor Su Tsung
- National Teacher Chung
- Named characters (in Japanese):
- Emperor Shukusō
- Chū Kokushi
- Other koan collections:
- The True Dharma Eye, Case #26.
- 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)
- John Daido Loori (contained in The True Dharma Eye, 2005)
- Michael Kieran (dharma talk)
- Eran Junryu Vardi (audio dharma talk)
- Yamada Kôun (dharma talk with paywall)