Case 81: Yaoshan’s Elk of Elks
- Title in Sullivan (2021): Yaoshan’s Elk of Elks
- Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Yao Shan’s Shooting the Elk of Elks
- Title in Sekida (2005): Yakusan’s King of the King Deer
- Named characters (in Pinyin):
- Yaoshan
- Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
- Yao Shan
- Named characters (in Japanese):
- Yakusan
- 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)
- Richard Shrobe (contained in Elegant Failure, Ch. 3, 2010)
- Dainin Katagiri (contained in You Have Something to Say: Manifesting Zen Insight, 1998)
- Dainin Katagiri (audio dharma talk 1and 2)
- Kurt Spellmeyer (audio dharma talk)
- Genjo Marinello (audio dharma talk)
- Yamada Kôun (dharma talk with paywall)