Case 84: Vimalakirti’s Dharma Gate of Non-Duality

Case 84: Vimalakirti’s Dharma Gate of Non-Duality

• Title in Sullivan (2021): Vimalakīrti’s Dharma Gate of Non-Duality
• Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Vimalakirti’s Gate of Nonduality
• Title in Sekida (2005): Yuima’s “The Gate to the One and Only”
• Named characters:
  • Vimalakīrti
  • Mañjuśrī
• Named characters (in Japanese):
  • Yuima
  • Monju
• Other koan collections:
  • The Book of Equanimity, Case #48.
• Historical commentaries:
  • Chan Masters Miaozong, Baochi and Zukui (contained in Zen Echoes, Beata Grant, 2017)
  • Chan Master Huangbo Xiyun (contained in A Bird in Flight Leaves No Trace, Subul, page 284, 2019)
  • 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. 20, 2010)
  • Subul (contained in A Bird in Flight Leaves No Trace, page 284, 2019)
  • Gerry Shishin Wick (contained in The Book of Equanimity, 2005)
  • Sunryu Suzuki (dharma talk and pdf article)
  • John Daido Loori (dharma talk)
  • Stephen Damon (dharma talk)
  • John Fraser (dharma talk)
  • Dainin Katagiri (audio dharma talk 1 and 2)
  • Kurt Spellmeyer (audio dharma talk 1 and 2)
  • Eran Junryu Vardi (audio dharma talk)
  • Norman Fischer (audio dharma talk)
  • Karin Kempe (audio dharma talk)
  • Bodhin Kjolhede (audio dharma talk)
  • Ron Hogen Green (audio dharma talk)
  • Yamada Kôun (dharma talk with paywall)
• Scholarly commentaries:
  • Kusumoto Bunyū (contained in Zengo Nyūmon, Zengo 5, 1982)