Case 40: Nanquan Points to a Flower

Case 40: Nanquan Points to a Flower

• Title in Sullivan (2021): Nanquan Points to a Flower
• Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Nan Ch’uan’s It’s like a Dream
• Title in Sekida (2005): Nansen’s “This Flower”
• Named characters (in Pinyin):
  • Luxuan
  • Sengzhao
  • Nanquan
• Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
  • Lu Hsuan
  • Seng Chao
  • Nan Ch’uan
• Named characters (in Japanese):
  • Riku Taifu
  • Jō Hosshi
  • Nansen
• Other koan collections:
  • The Book of Equanimity, Case #91
• Historical commentaries:
  • 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)
  • Richard Shrobe (contained in Elegant Failure, Ch. 5, 2010)
  • Gyomay Kubose (contained in Zen Koans, page 250, 1973)
  • Gerry Shishin Wick (contained in The Book of Equanimity, 2005)
  • Shunryu Suzuki (dharma talk and pdf article)
  • Eve Myonen Marko (dharma talk)
  • Genjo Marinello (dharma talk)
  • Dainin Katagiri (audio dharma talk)
  • Eran Junryu Vardi (audio dharma talk)
  • Norman Fischer (audio dharma talk)
  • Kokyo Henkel (audio dharma talk)
  • Bodhin Kjolhede (audio dharma talk)
  • Kurt Spellmeyer (audio dharma talk 1 and 2)
  • Karin Kempe (audio dharma talk)
  • John Fraser (dharma talk)
  • Jay Rinsen Weik (video dharma talk)
  • Yamada Kôun (dharma talk with paywall)
• Scholarly commentaries:
  • Kusumoto Bunyū (contained in Zengo Nyūmon, Zengo 97, 1982)