Case 53: Baizhang’s Wild Ducks

Case 53: Baizhang’s Wild Ducks

• Title in Sullivan (2021): Baizhang’s Wild Ducks
• Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Pai Chang’s Wild Ducks
• Title in Sekida (2005): Hyakujō and a Wild Duck
• Named characters (in Pinyin):
  • Mazu Daoyi (aka Great Master Ma) (709-788)
  • Baizhang
• Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
  • Ma Tsu
  • Pai Chang
• Named characters (in Japanese):
  • Baso
  • Hyakujō  Ekai
• Other koan collections:
  • The True Dharma Eye, Case #182
  • Seonmun yeomsong seolhwa, Case #177
• 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)
  • John Daido Loori (contained in The True Dharma Eye, 2005)
  • Sunryu Suzuki (dharma talk 1 and 2 and 3 and pdf article)
  • John Fraser (dharma talk 1 and 2)
  • Tim Burkett (dharma talk)
  • Kurt Spellmeyer (dharma talk and audio dharma talk 1 and 2)
  • Sojun Mel Weitsman (audio dharma talk)
  • Eran Junryu Vardi (audio dharma talk)
  • Henry Shukman (audio dharma talk)
  • Ken Morgareidge (audio dharma talk)
  • Geoffrey Shugen Arnold (audio dharma talk)
  • Kokyo Henkel (audio dharma talk)
  • Dainin Katagiri (audio dharma talk)
  • Glenn Wallis (audio dharma talk)
  • John Fraser (video dharma talk)
  • Yamada Kôun (dharma talk and dharma talk with paywall)
• Scholarly commentary:
  • Mario Poceski (contained in Zen Masters, page 12, ed. by Steven Heine and Dale Wright, 2010).