Case 24: Iron Grindstone Liu Walks Away

Case 24: Iron Grindstone Liu Walks Away

  • Title in Sullivan (2021): The Grinder Walks Away
  • Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Kuei Shan and Iron Grindstone Liu
  • Title in Sekida (2005): Ryūtetsuma the Old Female Buffalo
  • Named characters (in Pinyin):
    • Liu Tiemo
    • Guishan Lingyou (771-853)
  • Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
    • Lieu (aka Iron Grinder Lieu)
    • Kuei Shan
  • Named characters (in Japanese):
    • Ryūtetsuma
    • Isan
  • Other koan collections:
    • The Book of Equanimity, Case #60.
  • Historical commentaries:
    • Ikkyū (poem #47, contained in The Kōan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism, Heine and Wright eds., page 215, 2000)
    • Hakuin Ekaku and Tenkei Denson (contained in Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record, Thomas Clearly, 2002)
  • Modern commentaries: 
    • Gyomay Kubose (contained in Zen Koanspage 194, 1973)
    • Gerry Shishin Wick (contained in The Book of Equanimity, 2005)
  • Scholarly commentary:
    • Steven Heine (contained in Opening a Mountains, page 64, 2002).