Case 8: Cuiyan’s Eyebrows

Case 8: Cuiyan’s Eyebrows

  • Title in Sullivan (2021): Cuiyan’s Eyebrows
  • Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Ts’ui Yen’s Eyebrows
  • Title in Sekida (2005): Suigan’s Eyebrows
  • Named characters (in Pinyin):
    • Cuiyan Lingcan (n.d.)
    • Baofu Congzhan (d. 928)
    • Changqing Huileng (854-932)
    • Yunmen Wenyan (864-949)
  • Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
    • Ts’ui Yen
    • Pao Fu
    • Ch’ang Ch’ing
    • Yun Men.
  • Named characters (in Japanese):
    • Suigan
    • Hofuku
    • Chōkei
    • Ummon
  • Other koan collections:
    • The Book of Equanimity, Case #71.
  • Historical commentaries:
    • Hakuin Ekaku and Tenkei Denson (contained in Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record, Thomas Clearly, 2002)
  • Modern commentaries:
    • Gyomay Kubose (contained in Zen Koanspage 172, 1973)
    • Gerry Shishin Wick (contained in The Book of Equanimity, 2005)
  • Scholarly commentaries: 
    • Kenneth Kraft (contained in Eloquent Zen, page 36, 1992)
    • Kusumoto Bunyū (contained in Zengo Nyūmon, Zengo 3 and Zengo 22, 1982)