Case 12: Dongshan’s Three Pounds of Flax
- Title in Sullivan (2021): Dongshan’s Three Pounds of Flax
- Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Tung Shan’s Three Pounds of Hemp
- Title in Sekida (2005): Tōzan’s “Masagin”
- Named characters (in Pinyin):
- Dongshan Shouchu (910-990)
- Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
- Tung Shan
- Named characters (in Japanese):
- Tōzan
- Other koan collections:
- The Gateless Barrier, Case #18
- The True Dharma Eye, Case #172
- Historical commentaries:
- Mumon (poetry)
- 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 153, 1973)
- Richard Shrobe (contained in Elegant Failure, Ch. 14, 2010)
- Seung Sahn Sunim (contained in The Compass of Zen, page 258, 1997)
- John Daido Loori (contained in The True Dharma Eye, 2005)
- John Fraser (dharma talk)
- Lee Shields (dharma talk)
- Stefano Mui Barragato (dharma talk)
- Glenn Wallis (audio dharma talk)
- Dainin Katagiri (audio dharma talk 1 and 2)
- Shinge Sherry Chayat (audio dharma talk)
- Genjo Marinello (audio dharma talk)
- Jay Rinsen Weik (audio dharma talk)
- Kurt Spellmeyer (audio dharma talk)
- Henry Shukman (audio dharma talk)
- Rinzan Pechovnik (audio dharma talk)
- Tim Burnett (audio dharma talk)
- David Keizan Scott (audio dharma talk)
- Yamada Kôun (dharma talk with paywall)
- Scholarly commentaries:
- Steven Heine (contained in Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record, page 158, 2016)
- Kusumoto Bunyū (contained in Zengo Nyūmon, Zengo 19, 1982)