Case 42: Layman Pang’s Perfect Snowflake

Case 42: Layman Pang’s Perfect Snowflake

• Title in Sullivan (2021): Layman Pang’s Perfect Snowflake
• Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Layman P’ang’s Good Snowflakes
• Title in Sekida (2005): Hō Koji’s “Beautiful Snowflakes”
• Named characters (in Pinyin): Layman Pang, Yaoshan and Quan.
• Named characters (in Wade-Giles): Layman P’ang, Yao Shan and Ch’uan.
• Named characters (in Japanese): Hō Koji, Yakusan and Zenkaku.
• Other koan collections: 
• Historical commentaries:
  • Ikkyū  (poem #79, contained The Poetry of the Kyōunshū “Crazy Cloud Anthology” of Ikkyū Sōjun, Sonja Arntzen trans., page 143, 1979)
  • 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)
  • John Fraser (dharma talk)
  • Bodhin Kjolhede (audio dharma talk)
  • Genjo Marinello (audio dharma talk)
  • Dainin Katagiri (audio dharma talk)
  • Kurt Spellmeyer (audio dharma talk 1 and 2)
  • Rafe Martin (video dharma talk)
  • Yamada Kôun (dharma talk with paywall)