Case 99: The National Teacher Answers the Emperor

Case 99: The National Teacher Answers the Emperor

  • Title in Sullivan (2021): The National Teacher Answers the Emperor
  • Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Su Tsung’s Ten-Body Controller
  • Title in Sekida (2005): “Chū Kokushi and the Ten-bodied Herdsman”
  • Named characters (in Pinyin):
    • Suzong Di (or Emperor Suzong of the Tang) (711-762)
    • Nanyang Huizhong (aka Guoshi Zhong or “National Teacher Zhong”) (d. 775)
  • Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
    • Emperor Su Tsung
    • National Teacher Chung
  • Named characters (in Japanese):
    • Emperor Shukusō
    • Chū Kokushi
  • Other koan collections:
    • The True Dharma Eye, Case #26.
  • Historical commentaries:
    • Hakuin Ekaku and Tenkei Denson (contained in Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record, Thomas Clearly, 2002)
  • Modern commentaries:
    • John Daido Loori (contained in The True Dharma Eye, 2005)