Case 44: Heshan Beats the Drum

Case 44: Heshan Beats the Drum

• Title in Sullivan (2021): Heshan Beats the Drum
• Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Ho Shan’s Knowing How to Beat the Drum
• Title in Sekida (2005): Kasan’s “Beating the Drum”
• Named characters (in Pinyin):
  • Heshan
• Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
  • Ho Shan
• Named characters (in Japanese):
  • Kasan
• Other koan collections:
  • The True Dharma Eye, Case #186
• 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. 11, 2010)
  • John Daido Loori (contained in The True Dharma Eye, 2005)
  • Dainin Katagiri (audio dharma talk)
  • Stefano Mui Barragato (audio dharma talk)
  • Bodhin Kjolhede (audio dharma talk)
  • Eran Junryu Vardi (audio dharma talk)
  • Shinge Sherry Chayat (audio dharma talk)
  • Kurt Spellmeyer (audio dharma talk 1 and 2) 
  • William Nyogen Yeo (dharma talk)
  • Yamada Kôun (dharma talk with paywall)
• Scholarly commentaries:
  • Steven Heine (contained in Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record, page 123, 2016)