Case 38: Fengxue’s Iron Ox

Case 38: Fengxue’s Iron Ox

  • Title in Sullivan (2021): Fengxue’s Iron Ox
  • Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Feng Hsueh’s Workings of the Iron Ox
  • Title in Sekida (2005): Fuketsu and the Dharma Seal of the Patriarch
  • Named characters (in Pinyin):
    • Fengxue
    • Lupi
  • Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
    • Feng Hsueh
    • Lu P’i
  • Named characters (in Japanese):
    • Fuketsu
    • Rohi
  • Other koan collections:
    • The Book of Equanimity, Case #29.
  • Historical commentaries:
    • Hakuin Ekaku and Tenkei Denson (contained in Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record, Thomas Clearly, 2002)
  • Modern commentaries: 
    • Gerry Shishin Wick (contained in The Book of Equanimity, 2005)
    • Zenrin Robert Lewis (pdf)
  • Scholarly commentaries:
    • Steven Heine (contained in Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record, page 182, 2016)