Case 63: Nanquan Killed the Cat

Case 63: Nanquan Killed the Cat

• Title in Sullivan (2021): Nanquan Killed the Cat
• Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Nan Ch’uan Kills a Cat
• Title in Sekida (2005): Nansen Cuts the Cat in Two
• Named characters (in Pinyin):
  • Nanquan
  • Zhaozhou Congshen (778-897)
• Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
  • Nan Ch’uan
  • Chao Chou
• Named characters (in Japanese):
  • Nansen
  • Jōshū
• Other koan collections:
  • The Gateless Barrier, Case #14
  • The Book of Equanimity, Case #9
  • The True Dharma Eye, Case #181
  • Seonmun yeomsong seolhwa, Case #207
• Historical commentaries:
  • Chan Masters Miaozong, Baochi and Zukui (contained in Zen Echoes, Beata Grant, 2017)
  • 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 254, 1973)
  • Seung Sahn Sunim (contained in The Compass of Zen, page 382, 1997)
  • Gerry Shishin Wick (contained in The Book of Equanimity, 2005)
  • John Daido Loori (contained in The True Dharma Eye, 2005)
  • John Fraser (dharma talk)
  • Dainin Katagiri (audio dharma talk)
  • Kokyo Henkel (audio dharma talk)
  • Norman Fischer (audio dharma talk)
  • Shinge Sherry Chayat (audio dharma talk)
  • Kurt Spellmeyer (audio dharma talk)
  • Karin Kempe (audio dharma talk)
  • Ken Morgareidge (audio dharma talk)
  • Kritee (audio dharma talk)
  • Tim Burnett (audio dharma talk)
  • Geoffrey Shugen Arnold (audio dharma talk)
  • Genjo Marinello (audio dharma talk)
  • Peter Seishin Wohl (video dharma talk)
  • Shikai Zuiko (zen box)
  • Yamada Kôun (dharma talk with paywall)
• Scholarly commentary:
  • Steven Heine (contained in Like Cats and Dogs, page 24, 2014)
  • T. Griffith Foulk (contained in The Kōan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism, Heine and Wright eds., pages 29 and 33, 2000)