Case 60: Yunmen’s Staff Became a Dragon
- Title in Sullivan (2021): Yunmen’s Staff Became a Dragon
- Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Yun Men’s Staff Changes into a Dragon
- Title in Sekida (2005): Ummon’s Staff Becoming a Dragon
- Named characters (in Pinyin):
- Yunmen Wenyan (864-949)
- Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
- Yun Men
- Named characters (in Japanese):
- Ummon
- Historical commentaries:
- Ikkyū (poem #35, contained in The Kōan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism, Heine and Wright eds., page 215, 2000)
- 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)
- Gyomay Kubose (contained in Zen Koans, page 35, 1973)
- Dainin Katagiri (audio dharma talk)
- Shinge Sherry Chayat (audio dharma talk)
- Kurt Spellmeyer (audio dharma talk 1 and 2)
- Genjo Marinello (audio dharma talk)
- Rinzan Pechovnik (audio dharma talk)
- Yamada Kôun (dharma talk with paywall)
- Scholarly commentaries:
- Steven Heine (contained in Opening a Mountains, page 145, 2002)
- Steven Heine (contained in Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record, page 75, 2016)