Case 20: Longya Asks Around

Case 20: Longya Asks Around

• Title in Sullivan (2021): Longya Asks Around
• Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Lung Ya’s Meaning of the Coming from the West
• Title in Sekida (2005): Ryūgye Asks Suibi and Rinzai
• Named characters (in Pinyin):
  • Longya Judun (835-923)
  • Cuiwei Wuxue (n.d.)
  • Linji Yixuan (d. 866)
• Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
  • Lung Ya
  • Ts’ui Wei
  • Lin Chi
• Named characters (in Japanese):
  • Ryūge
  • Suibi
  • Rinzai
• Other koan collections: 
  • The Book of Equanimity, Case #80
  • The True Dharma Eye, Case #205
• Historical commentaries:
  • Zen Master Hakuin Ekaku (contained in Complete Poison Blossoms from a Thicket of Thorn, chapter 139, 2017)
  • 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 53, 1973)
  • Gerry Shishin Wick (contained in The Book of Equanimity, 2005)
  • John Daido Loori (contained in The True Dharma Eye, 2005)
  • Robert Aitken (article in Buddhadharma, vol. 1, no. 3, Spring 2003, pp. 16-19)
  • Shunryu Suzuki (dharma talk and pdf article)
  • Stefano Mui Barragato (dharma talk)
  • Dainin Katagiri (audio dharma talk 1 and 2)
  • Jay Rinsen Weik (audio dharma talk)
  • Genjo Marinello (audio dharma talk)
  • Kurt Spellmeyer (audio dharma talk 1 and 2)
  • Yamada Kôun (dharma talk with paywall)
• Scholarly commentaries:
  • Steven Heine (contained in Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record, page 195, 2016)