Case 18: The National Teacher’s Seamless Monument
- Title in Sullivan (2021): The National Teacher’s Seamless Monument
- Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): National Teacher Chung’s Seamless Monument
- Title in Sekida (2005): Emperor Shukusō Asks About the Style of the Pagoda
- Named characters (in Pinyin):
- Suzong Di (aka Emperor Suzong of the Tang) (711-762)
- Nanyang Huizhong (aka Guoshi Zhong or “National Teacher Zhong”) (d. 775)
- Danyuan Yingzhen (n.d.)
- Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
- Emperor Su Tsung
- Hui Chung
- Tan Yuan
- Named characters (in Japanese):
- Emperor Shukusō
- Chū Kokushi
- Tangen
- Other koan collections:
- The Book of Equanimity, Case #85.
- 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)
- Barry Magid (contained in Nothing is Hidden, Ch. 22, 2013)
- Gyomay Kubose (contained in Zen Koans, page 198, 1973)
- Gerry Shishin Wick (contained in The Book of Equanimity, 2005)
- Stefano Mui Barragato (dharma talk)
- Shunryu Suzuki (dharma talk 1 and 2 and pdf article)
- Daniel Doen Silberberg (dharma talk)
- James Ford (dharma talk)
- Time Burnett (dharma talk)
- Dainin Katagiri (audio dharma talk)
- Barry Magid (audio dharma talk)
- Keith Shingo Parr (audio dharma talk)
- Jay Rinsen Weik (audio dharma talk)
- Kurt Spellmeyer (audio dharma talk)
- Karin Kempe (audio dharma talk)
- Peggy Sheehan (audio dharma talk)
- Barbara Joshin O’Hara (audio dharma talk)
- Geoffrey Shugen Arnold (audio dharma talk)
- Bodhin Kjolhede (audio dharma talk)
- Yamada Kôun (dharma talk with paywall)