Case 51: Yantou’s Last Word

Case 51: Yantou’s Last Word

• Title in Sullivan (2021): Yantou’s Last Word
• Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Hsueh Feng’s What Is It?
• Title in Sekida (2005): Seppō’s “What is This?”
• Named characters (in Pinyin):
  • Xuefeng Yicun (822-908)
  • Yantou
• Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
  • Hsueh Feng
  • Yen T’ou
• Named characters (in Japanese):
  • Seppō
  • Gantō
• Other koan collections:
  • The Book of Equanimity, Case #50
• 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)
  • Gerry Shishin Wick (contained in The Book of Equanimity, 2005)
  • Sunryu Suzuki (dharma talk and pdf article)
  • Hokuto Dan Diffin (video dharma talk)
  • Eran Junryu Vardi (audio dharma talk)
  • Kurt Spellmeyer (audio dharma talk 1 and 2)
  • Dainin Katagiri (audio dharma talk)
  • Norman Fischer (audio dharma talk)
  • Yamada Kôun (dharma talk with paywall)
• Scholarly commentaries:
  • Steven Heine (contained in Opening a Mountains, page 84, 2002)