Case 83: Yunmen’s Exposed Pillar

Case 83: Yunmen’s Exposed Pillar

  • Title in Sullivan (2021): Yunmen’s Exposed Pillar
  • Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Yun Men’s Ancient Buddhas and the Pillar
  • Title in Sekida (2005): Ummon’s “The Old Buddha Communes with the Pillar”
  • Named characters (in Pinyin):
    • Yunmen Wenyan (864-949)
  • Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
    • Yun Men
  • Named characters (in Japanese):
    • Ummon
  • Other koan collections:
    • The Book of Equanimity, Case #31
  • Historical commentaries:
    • Ikkyū (poem #45, contained in The Kōan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism, Heine and Wright eds., page 216, 2000)
    • Ikkyū  (poem #45, contained The Poetry of the Kyōunshū “Crazy Cloud Anthology” of Ikkyū Sōjun, Sonja Arntzen trans., pages 63 and 105, 1979)
    • Hakuin Ekaku and Tenkei Denson (contained in Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record, Thomas Clearly, 2002)
  • Modern commentaries:
    • Gerry Shishin Wick (contained in The Book of Equanimity, 2005)
  • Scholarly commentaries:
    • Urs App (contained in Zen Master Yunmen, page 230, 2018)