Case 73: Great Master Ma’s Permutations of Assertion and Denial

Case 73: Great Master Ma’s Permutations of Assertion and Denial

  • Title in Sullivan (2021): Great Master Ma’s Permutations of Assertion and Denial
  • Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Ma Tsu’s Permutations of Assertion and Denial
  • Title in Sekida (2005): Baso and the Hundred Negations
  • Named characters (in Pinyin):
    • Mazu Daoyi (aka Great Master Ma) (709-788)
    • Zhizang
    • Baizhang
  • Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
    • Ma Tsu
    • Chih Tsang
    • Pai Chang
  • Named characters (in Japanese):
    • Baso
    • Chizō
    • Hyakujō  Ekai
  • Other koan collections:
    • The Book of Equanimity, Case #6
    • The True Dharma Eye, Case #108
  • 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)
    • Gerry Shishin Wick (contained in The Book of Equanimity, 2005)
  • Scholarly commentaries:
    • Mario Poceski (contained in the Records of Mazu and the Making of Classical Chan Literature, page. 227, 2015)