Case 88: Xuansha’s Three Ailments

Case 88: Xuansha’s Three Ailments

  • Title in Sullivan (2021): Xuansha’s Ailments
  • Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Hsuan Sha’s Guiding and Aiding Living Beings
  • Title in Sekida (2005): Gensha’s Man of Three Disabilities
  • Named characters (in Pinyin):
    • Xuansha
    • Yunmen Wenyan (864-949)
  • Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
    • Hsuan Sha
    • Yun Men
  • Named characters (in Japanese):
    • Gensha
    • Ummon
  • Historical commentaries:
    • Ikkyū (poems #58, 59 and 60, contained in The Kōan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism, Heine and Wright eds., page 223, 2000)
    • Hakuin Ekaku and Tenkei Denson (contained in Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record, Thomas Clearly, 2002)
  • Modern commentaries: