Case 23: Baofu and Changqing Find the Mystic Peak

Case 23: Baofu and Changqing Find the Mystic Peak

  • Title in Sullivan (2021): Baofu and Changqing Find the Mystic Peak
  • Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Pao Fu’s Summit of the Mystic Peak
  • Title in Sekida (2005): Hofuku Points to Myōhōchō
  • Named characters (in Pinyin):
    • Baofu Congzhan (d. 928)
    • Changqing Huileng (854-932)
  • Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
    • Pao Fu
    • Ch’ang Ch’ing
  • Named characters (in Japanese):
    • Hofuku
    • Chōkei
  • Other koan collections:
    • Seonmun yeomsong seolhwa, Case #1109 (Chapter 76 in Gongan Collections II, translated by John Jorgensen)
  • 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 192, 1973)
  • Scholarly commentaries:
    • Victor Sōgen Hori (contained in Zen Classics, chapter 6, ed. by Steven Heine and Dale Wright, 2006)
    • Victor Sōgen Hori (contained in Zen Sand, page 36, 2010)