Case 11: Huangbo’s Dreg Swilling Bozos

Case 11: Huangbo’s Dreg Swilling Bozos

  • Title in Sullivan (2021): Huangbo’s Dreg Swilling Bozos
  • Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Huang Po’s Gobblers of Dregs
  • Title in Sekida (2005): Ōbaku’s “Partakers of Brewer’s Grain”
  • Named characters (in Pinyin):
    • Huangbo Xiyun (n.d.)
  • Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
    • Huang Po
  • Named characters (in Japanese):
    • Ōbaku
  • Other koan collections:
    • The Book of Equanimity, Case #53
    • The True Dharma Eye, Case #202
  • Historical commentaries:
    • Hakuin Ekaku and Tenkei Denson (contained in Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record, Thomas Clearly, 2002)
  • Modern commentaries:
    • Gyomay Kubose (contained in Zen Koanspage 39, 1973)
    • Gerry Shishin Wick (contained in The Book of Equanimity, 2005)
    • John Daido Loori (contained in The True Dharma Eye, 2005)
  • Scholarly commentaries:
    • Steven Heine (contained in Opening a Mountains, page 106, 2002).