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99 Curves (MK7)
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1
1
3
A Donkey Sees a Well (BS52)
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0
1
0
1
A Matter of Special Worth
1
0
0
0
1
Abiding Nowhere the Mind Comes Forth (MK65b)
5
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2
0
7
Atom of Samadhi
1
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0
0
1
Avatamsaka Sutra: Indra's Net
1
0
0
0
1
Baizhang's Fox (GG2) (BS8)
1
3
0
3
7
Baling Haojian’s Three Barriers (MK74)
1
2
1
1
5
Baling's Falling into a Well (MK74b)
0
0
0
2
2
Baling's Snow in a Silver Bowl (MK74a)(BCR13)
0
1
0
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1
Baling’s Blown Hair Sword (MK74c) (BCR100)
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1
1
2
4
Ballad of Tam Lin
3
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3
Bankei's Miracle
0
0
1
0
1
BCR Case 50
1
0
0
0
1
Be a Tiger in the Mountains
0
1
0
0
1
Blue Dragon's Cave (BCR3)
2
0
1
0
3
Bodhidharma Comes and Goes (MK43)
1
0
1
1
3
Buddha Has No Country
1
0
0
0
1
Buffalo through the Window (GG38)
0
0
0
2
2
Caoshan's Dharma Body (BS52)
0
0
1
0
1
Catching a Catfish with a Gourd
0
0
0
1
1
Changsha Goes Wandering in the Mountains One Day (BCR36)
1
0
0
4
5
Counting (MK8)
1
0
0
0
1
Crag Called Empty One
1
0
0
0
1
Crossing the Brook (MK23)
0
1
0
0
1
Dalong’s Pure Everlasting Body (BCR82)
1
1
0
0
2
Daowu and Jianyuan Offer Condolences (BCR55)
0
0
0
1
1
Deshan's Bowls in Hand (GG1)
1
0
0
0
1
Deshan's Enlightenment (GG28)
2
0
0
0
2
Do You Practice?
1
0
0
1
2
Dogen's Turn Your Light Inward
0
0
1
0
1
Dogen’s Storehouse of Treasures (MK66)
3
0
1
3
7
Dogs at Midnight (MK4)
1
0
0
0
1
Don't Believe It
1
0
2
0
3
Dongshan Sick
0
0
1
0
1
Dongshan's Cold and Heat (BCR43)
0
0
2
0
2
Dongshan's Each Stitch
0
0
1
1
2
Dongshan's Five Ranks (1st)
1
0
1
0
2
Dongshan's Five Ranks (3rd)
1
0
1
0
2
Dongshan's Five Ranks (4th)
1
0
1
0
2
Dongshan's Five Ranks (5th)
0
0
1
0
1
Dongshan's Five Ranks (The Record of Dongshan, Ch. 114)
3
0
1
4
8
Dongshan's Just This Is It
0
0
0
1
1
Dongshan's Three Paths
2
1
0
4
7
Dongshan's Voice of the Cuckoo (MK52)
1
1
0
1
3
Dongshan’s Jewel Mirror Samadhi (BCR13)
0
0
0
4
4
Doushuai’s Three Barriers (MK73a)
1
0
0
1
2
Doushuai’s Three Barriers (MK73c)
0
2
0
1
3
Dragon Singing in a Dead Tree
1
0
1
0
2
Each Branch of Coral Holds Up the Moon (MK74c)
0
0
0
1
1
Emperor Wu Questions Bodhidharma (BCR1)(BS2)
4
0
4
3
11
Fayan's Students Roll Up the Blinds (GG26)
1
1
2
1
5
Find Something That Is Not Medicine
1
0
0
0
1
Following the Scent of flowers (BCR36)
1
0
1
0
2
For Another (MK50)
0
0
0
1
1
For Your Benefit (MK48)
0
1
0
6
7
Forget the Self and You'll Help Others
0
0
1
0
1
Freely I Watch the Tracks of the Flying Birds (MK23b)
1
0
0
0
1
Ghost (MK17)
4
1
2
0
7
Give Me the Reaching
2
0
0
0
2
Going to Wild Places
4
0
0
0
4
Great Fire at Engakuji
3
0
0
1
4
Guanyin, Bodhisattva of Compassion
0
0
0
2
2
Hakuin's Great Light
1
0
0
0
1
Hakuin's Praise Song for Meditation
1
0
1
1
3
Hakuin's Silver Cliff & Iron Mountains
0
0
1
0
1
Hanging by Your Teeth
0
0
1
0
1
Heart Sutra
1
0
2
4
7
Hell in an SUV (MK26)
1
0
0
0
1
Hongzhi's Called Back from the Dream (MK34)
2
0
0
3
5
How Are You?
1
0
0
0
1
How Do You Cross a Stream? (Record of Dongshan)
0
0
0
1
1
Huangbo's Gobblers of Dregs (BCR11)
1
0
0
0
1
Huineng's Original Face (GG23)
1
0
1
3
5
If You Are Scorned (BCR97)
0
0
1
0
1
Ikkyu's Attention!
1
0
0
0
1
Ikkyu's Well (MK22)
1
1
1
0
3
In the Dark (MK51)
0
0
0
1
1
Indra’s Net (Sutra)
1
0
0
0
1
Jade Elephant
0
0
1
0
1
Jiashan Wields some Gardening Tools (BC68)
0
0
0
2
2
Jinniu Dances before the Meal (BCR74)
0
0
0
1
1
Just This Is It
3
0
0
1
4
Juzhi's One Finger Zen (GG3) (BS84)
1
0
0
0
1
Juzhi's One Finger Zen (GG3) (BS84)
1
0
1
0
2
Knock On Any Door (Preface to BCR)
1
0
2
1
4
Layman Pang
1
0
0
0
1
Layman Pang Falls Down
1
0
0
0
1
Learning Speech & Silence (GG24)
1
0
0
0
1
Light
1
0
0
0
1
Linji's Blockhead
1
0
0
1
2
Linji's Solitary Brightness (MK38c)
8
0
0
4
12
Linji's Take the Role of Host (MK38d)
4
0
2
1
7
Linji's Take the Role of Host (MK38d)
1
0
1
3
5
Linji's There Is Nothing I Dislike (MK38a)
3
0
1
3
7
Linji's True Person (MK38b)(BS38)
1
0
1
3
5
Linji's What Is It You Lack? (MK38e)
1
0
0
0
1
Little Jade (MK47)
0
0
0
3
3
Luopu Was About To Die
0
0
1
1
2
Maralung, an Australian Koan (MK41)
0
1
0
0
1
Master Ma Is Unwell (BCR3)
0
0
1
0
1
Master Ma's Wild Duck (BCR53)
1
0
0
0
1
Mazu's Fanning
1
0
0
0
1
Mazu's Make Yourself A Raft
5
1
1
0
7
Moon Face Buddha (BCR3)
1
0
1
0
2
Not Attacking
1
0
0
0
1
Not Knowing Is Most Intimate (MK62)
3
0
1
5
9
Not the Flag (GG29)
1
0
0
0
1
Nothing to Complain About
1
0
0
0
1
Ocean of Bright Clouds
1
0
0
0
1
One Finger Zen
1
0
0
0
1
Ordinary Mind is the Way (GG19)
0
0
0
3
3
Oxherding Drawings
0
1
0
0
1
Pang Family's Helping (MK40)
1
0
1
0
2
Peach Blossoms (MK37)
2
2
0
1
5
Peach Trees Without Words Make a Path
1
0
0
0
1
Picking and Choosing (BCR2)
4
0
0
1
5
Pillar (MK18)
0
1
0
0
1
Poverty (MK71)
1
0
0
0
1
Record of Joshu
0
1
1
0
2
Record of Linji
0
0
0
4
4
Record of Linji
1
0
0
0
1
Renowned Far & Wide
1
0
0
0
1
Ruyian's Calls to Himself (GG12)
0
0
1
0
1
Samurai Koans
1
0
0
0
1
Say a Word of Zen
1
0
0
0
1
Say Something in Response
0
0
0
1
1
Say Something Without Moving Your Lips (MK30b)
1
0
0
0
1
Shelter (MK14)
0
1
0
2
3
Shishuang's Hundred-foot Pole (GG46)
0
1
0
0
1
Shitou's Turn Your Light Inwards
0
0
1
0
1
Shoushan’s Three Shots at Getting It (BS76)
0
0
1
0
1
Sickness and Medicine (BCR87)
5
0
0
0
5
Silence (GG)
1
0
0
0
1
Sixteen Bodhisattvas Take a Bath (BCR78)
1
0
4
2
7
Someone with no Shadow or Form Is Drawing the Water
0
0
1
0
1
Speech of Tathatgata
1
0
0
0
1
Standing at the Edge of a Cliff
0
1
0
0
1
Step by Step in the Dark (MK72)
1
0
1
1
3
Stone Crypt (MK20)
2
0
2
4
8
Stone Hitting Bamboo
0
0
1
0
1
Stone Woman Gives Birth (MK33)
2
1
0
0
3
Stop Chasing About
1
0
0
0
1
Stop the War (MK25)
0
0
2
1
3
Stop the War (MK25)
0
0
1
0
1
Suddenly It's Midnight
1
0
0
0
1
Sun Face Buddha (BCR3)
4
0
1
0
5
Sweet Olive Blossoms (EV18)
0
0
0
1
1
Talking to a Rock
1
0
0
0
1
Teachings that Will Last a Lifetime (BCR14)
2
0
0
1
3
Temple Bell (MK1)
0
1
0
0
1
Ten Thousand Feet Down (MK27)
0
1
0
0
1
The Buddha's Hand (MK16a)
0
0
1
0
1
The Coin Lost in the River (MK64)
2
2
3
0
7
The Diamond Sutra (MK65)
0
0
0
1
1
The Diamond Sutra (MK65b)
0
0
0
4
4
The Egg (BCR 16)
1
0
0
0
1
The Egg (MK53)
3
0
0
0
3
The Fire across the River (MK2)
0
0
0
1
1
The Girl Comes Out from Meditation (GG42)
1
0
0
0
1
The Green Mountain (BS)
0
0
1
1
2
The Land of Demons
2
0
0
0
2
The Mind is a Great Artist
1
0
0
0
1
The Moon Sets at Midnight (BS76)
0
0
1
0
1
The Sieve (MK58)
1
0
0
0
1
The Stone in Sea of Ise
2
0
1
0
3
The Valley Stream Runs Dark as Indigo
1
0
0
0
1
The Whole World is Medicine (BCR87)
1
0
1
0
2
The Woman at the Inn (MK32)
1
0
0
1
2
This Very Heart-Mind is Buddha
1
0
0
0
1
Times of Great Difficulty
2
0
1
0
3
Torei Zenji's Bodhisattva's Vow (Sutra)
0
0
0
1
1
Turning Around (MK68)
0
0
1
1
2
Vast Emptiness Nothing Holy (BCR1)(BS2)
1
0
2
0
3
Warrior Koans (WK30)
0
0
0
1
1
Wash Your Bowls (GG)
2
0
1
0
3
What are the Dharma Gates through which the Bodhisattva enters the Gate of Non-duality
1
0
0
0
1
What Does Essential Nature Look Like? (MK28)
1
0
0
0
1
What is the Problem?
1
0
0
0
1
What Is This?
5
0
0
6
10
What Is This? (BCR51)
1
0
1
0
2
What Is Your Light? (BCR86)
7
0
0
0
7
What Will Sansheng Eat? (BC49)
0
0
0
1
1
Whatever Confronts You
0
0
1
2
3
Whatever Confronts You Trust the Light Within (Linji)
0
0
1
1
2
When It's Hot
1
0
0
0
1
When the Rain Beats Down (MK28d)
1
0
0
0
1
When Will You Meet Today?
0
0
1
0
1
Where Are You Coming From?
0
0
1
0
1
Where Have You Come From?
1
0
0
0
1
Where Will You Meet Today?
1
0
0
0
1
Who Am I?
9
0
0
0
9
Who Are You?
0
0
1
0
1
Who Is Hearing?
1
0
3
1
5
Who Is Speaking?
1
0
0
0
1
Why Can't a Clear-eyed Person Cut the Red Thread? (MK30c)
0
1
0
0
1
Woman at the Inn (MK32)
0
0
1
1
2
Wuzi's True Qian (GG35)
0
0
0
1
1
Xizhong Builds Carts
0
0
1
0
1
Yangshan's Mind & Environment
1
0
1
0
2
Yangshan’s Enlightenment (BS62)
1
0
1
0
2
Yanguan's Rhinoceros Fan (BCR91)(BS25)
0
1
2
0
3
Your Original Face before Your Parents Were Born
0
0
1
0
1
Yu the Doughnut Maker (MK75)
0
1
0
2
3
Yunmen Has A Light (BCR86)
12
0
1
0
13
Yunmen Reveals the Golden Wind (BCR27)
1
0
1
1
3
Yunmen Says Something in Response (BCR14)
0
0
2
2
4
Yunmen's Day of the Full Moon (BCR6)
2
0
1
1
4
Yunmen's Golden-haired Lion (BCR39)
1
0
0
2
3
Yunmen's Good Day (BCR6)
1
0
1
1
3
Yunmen's One Treasure (BCR62)
1
2
2
0
5
Yunmen's Two Sicknesses (BS11)
1
0
0
0
1
Yunmen’s Medicine and Sickness Cure Each Other (BCR87)
4
0
3
5
12
Yunyan Asks Daowu About Hands and Eyes (BCR89)
2
1
0
3
6
Yunyan's Talking To A Rock
1
0
1
0
2
Zhaozhou's No (GG1)(BS18)
6
1
3
2
12
Zhaozhou's Wooden Buddha (MK56)(BCR96)
1
0
0
0
1
Zhaozhou’s Dog (GG1) (BS18)
1
0
2
1
4
Zhaozhou’s Greatest Way Isn't Difficult (BCR2)
1
0
1
1
3
Zhuangzi Dreamed He Was A Butterfly
0
0
0
3
3
Zhuangzi's Great Fear is Vast and Calm
0
0
0
1
1
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