Case 30: Zhaozhou’s Big Radishes

Case 30: Zhaozhou’s Big Radishes

  • Title in Sullivan (2021): Zhaozhou’s Big Radishes
  • Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Chao Chou’s Big Turnips
  • Title in Sekida (2005): Jōshū’s “A Big Radish”
  • Named characters (in Pinyin):
    • Zhaozhou Congshen (778-897)
  • Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
    • Chao Chou
  • Named characters (in Japanese):
    • Jōshū.
  • 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 235, 1973)