Case 46: Jingqing Hears Raindrops

Case 46: Jingqing Hears Raindrops

  • Title in Sullivan (2021): Jingqing Hears Raindrops
  • Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Ching Ch’ing’s Sound of Raindrops
  • Title in Sekida (2005): Kyōsei’s “Voice of the Raindrops”
  • Named characters (in Pinyin):
    • Jingqing Daofu (868-937)
  • Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
    • Ching Ch’ing
  • Named characters (in Japanese):
    • Kyōsei
  • Other koan collections:
    • The True Dharma Eye, Case #286
  • Historical commentaries:
    • Hakuin Ekaku and Tenkei Denson (contained in Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record, Thomas Clearly, 2002)
  • Modern commentaries: 
    • John Daido Loori (contained in The True Dharma Eye, 2005)
  • Scholarly commentaries:
    • Taigen Dan Leighton (contained in Zen Masters, page 46, ed. by Steven Heine and Dale Wright, 2010)
    • Steven Heine (contained in Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record, page 216, 2016).