Koans

Koan
Audio434
Misc41
Text215
Video168
 
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1
59
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0
1
99 Curves (MK7)
1
0
1
1
3
A Donkey Sees a Well (BS52)
2
0
2
0
4
A Matter of Special Worth
5
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0
0
5
A Stone Drenched with Rain (MK19)
0
0
1
0
1
Abiding Nowhere the Heartmind Comes Forth (MK65b)
10
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3
0
13
Alone and Poor (GG10)
1
0
0
0
1
An Australian Koan (MK41)
1
0
0
0
1
and the Magical Duke (BCR1)(BS2)
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0
1
Atom of Samadhi
1
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1
Avatamsaka Sutra: Indra's Net
1
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1
Baizhang's Fox (GG2) (BS8)
1
3
0
3
7
Baling Haojian’s Three Barriers (MK74)
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2
1
1
5
Baling's Falling into a Well (MK74b)
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2
3
Baling's Snow in a Silver Bowl (MK74a)(BCR13)
7
1
0
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8
Baling’s Blown Hair Sword (MK74c) (BCR100)
1
1
1
2
5
Ballad of Tam Lin
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3
Bankei's Miracle
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2
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2
BCR Case 50
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1
BCR57
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2
BCR58
1
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0
1
Be a Tiger in the Mountains
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1
0
0
1
Blue Dragon's Cave (BCR3)
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2
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6
Bodhidharma
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2
Bodhidharma Comes and Goes (MK43)
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1
1
4
Bodhidharma's Vast Emptiness (BCR1)(BS2)
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2
0
5
Bodhisattva of Compassion
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0
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1
1
Bodhisattvas Come Eat Your Rice
1
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1
Buddha Has No Country
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1
Buddha's Hand (MK16)
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3
Buddha's Life
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1
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1
Buffalo Through the Window (GG38)
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1
2
3
Caoshan's Dharma Body (BS52)
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1
Catching a Catfish with a Gourd
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0
1
1
Changsha Wandering in the Mountains (BCR36)
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4
6
Chapter 114
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1
1
Counting (MK8)
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1
Crag Called Empty One
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1
Crossing the Brook (MK23)
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1
0
0
1
Dalung's What Is the Mysterious
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2
Dalung’s Pure Everlasting Body (BCR82)
3
1
1
0
5
Daodejing #25
1
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1
Daowu and Jianyuan Offer Condolences (BCR55)
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1
1
Deshan's Bowls in Hand (GG1)
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0
1
Deshan's Enlightenment (GG28)
3
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0
3
Do You Practice?
1
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0
1
2
Dogen's Turn Your Light Inward
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1
0
1
Dogen’s Storehouse of Treasures (MK66)
3
0
1
3
7
Dogs at Midnight (MK4)
1
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0
0
1
Dolphins (MK10)
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0
0
0
1
Don't Believe It
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3
0
4
Dongshan Sick (BS94)
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1
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2
Dongshan's Cold and Heat (BCR43)
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3
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4
Dongshan's Each Stitch
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1
1
2
Dongshan's Five Ranks (1st)
6
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7
Dongshan's Five Ranks (3rd)
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2
Dongshan's Five Ranks (4th)
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1
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2
Dongshan's Five Ranks (5th)
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1
Dongshan's Five Ranks (The Record of Dongshan, Ch. 114)
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1
3
7
Dongshan's Five Ranks (The Record of Dongshan)
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0
1
1
Dongshan's Just This Is It
1
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0
1
2
Dongshan's No Grass
1
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0
0
1
Dongshan's Three Paths
2
1
0
4
7
Dongshan's Voice of the Cuckoo (MK52)
2
1
0
1
4
Dongshan’s Jewel Mirror Samadhi (BCR13)
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4
4
Doushuai’s Three Barriers (MK73) (GG47)
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1
0
1
Doushuai’s Three Barriers (MK73a)
1
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1
2
Doushuai’s Three Barriers (MK73c)
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2
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1
3
Dragon Singing in a Withered Tree
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2
0
4
Each Branch of Coral Holds Up the Moon (MK74c)
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1
1
Emperor Wu Questions Bodhidharma (BCR1)(BS2)
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4
3
12
Enter There
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1
0
1
Fayan's Students Roll Up the Blinds (GG26)
1
1
2
1
5
Find Something That Is Not Medicine
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0
1
Following the Scent of flowers (BCR36)
3
0
1
0
4
For Another (MK50)
0
0
0
1
1
For Your Benefit (MK48)
0
1
2
6
9
Forget the Self and You'll Help Others
0
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2
0
2
Free and Easy Wandering
1
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0
1
Freely I Watch the Tracks of the Flying Birds (MK23b)
2
1
1
0
4
Ghost (MK17)
4
1
2
0
7
Give Me the Reaching
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0
1
0
3
Going to Wild Places (MK73)
4
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0
4
Great Fire at Engakuji
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1
4
Guanyin
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1
1
Guanyin, Bodhisattva of Compassion
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1
1
Guishan's No Foundation to Rely On
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1
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2
Guishan’s Zen (MK67)
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1
0
1
Hakuin's Great Light
1
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1
Hakuin's Praise Song for Meditation
1
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1
1
3
Hakuin's Silver Cliff & Iron Mountains
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1
Hanging by Your Teeth
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1
0
1
Hanshan's Tree (MK39)
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1
Heart Sutra
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3
4
9
Hell in an SUV (MK26)
2
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1
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2
Hongzhi's Called Back from the Dream (MK34)
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0
3
5
How Are You?
1
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1
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2
How Do You Cross a Stream? (Record of Dongshan)
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1
1
Huangbo's Gobblers of Dregs (BCR11)
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1
Huanglong Huinan's Three Turning Words (MK16)(GG49)(EV10)
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1
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1
Huineng's No North and South
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1
0
1
Huineng's Original Face (GG23)
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1
3
7
I Know for Myself if It Is Warm or Cold
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1
I vow ro do good for others
1
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1
I vow to do good
1
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0
1
I vow to do no harm
1
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1
I vow to live the great Buddha Way
1
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0
1
I Vow to Set Endless Heartache to Rest
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3
I vow to walk through every wisdom gate
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1
If You Are Scorned (BCR97)
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1
0
1
Ikkyu's Attention!
1
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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 (BCR68)
0
0
0
2
2
Jiashan's State of Mind (EV99)
2
0
0
0
2
Jinniu Dances before the Meal (BCR74)
0
0
0
1
1
Juifeng Does Not Acknowledge (BS96)
1
0
0
0
1
Just This Is It
5
0
0
1
6
Juzhi's One Finger Zen (GG3) (BS84)
2
0
0
0
2
Juzhi's One Finger Zen (GG3) (BS84)
1
0
1
0
2
kensho
1
0
0
0
1
Knock On Any Door (Preface to BCR)
5
0
2
1
8
Laozi's True Traveler
0
0
2
0
2
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 Nothing I Dislike (MK38a)
3
0
1
3
7
Linji's Solitary Brightness (MK38c)
8
0
0
4
12
Linji's Take the Role of Host (MK38d)
6
0
3
1
10
Linji's True Person (MK38b)(BS38)
1
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3
3
7
Linji's True Place (MK38d)
1
0
0
3
4
Little Jade (MK47)
1
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1
3
5
Loch Ness Monster (MK11)
2
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0
0
2
Luopu Was About To Die
0
0
1
1
2
Make the Mountains Dance (MK5)
1
0
0
0
1
Maralung (MK41)
1
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1
0
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
8
1
1
0
10
Mazu's Purpose of Your Life
3
0
0
0
3
Miscellaneous Koans
1
0
0
0
1
Moon Face Buddha (BCR3)
1
0
1
0
2
Not Attacking
1
0
0
0
1
Not Knowing Is Most Intimate (MK62)(BS20)
4
0
3
5
11
Not the Flag (GG29)
1
0
0
0
1
Nothing Holy (BCR1)(BS2)
1
0
1
0
2
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
One Speck of Dust (BCR19)
1
0
0
0
1
One Strip of White Silk (BS96)
1
0
0
0
1
Ordinary Mind Is the Way (GG19)
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0
2
3
10
Oxherding Drawings
3
1
0
0
4
Pang Family's Helping (MK40)
1
0
1
0
2
Peach Blossoms (MK37) (EV8)
16
2
3
1
22
Peach Trees Without Words Make a Path
1
0
0
0
1
Picking and Choosing (BCR2)
7
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2
1
10
Pillar (MK18)
0
1
0
0
1
Poverty (MK71)
1
0
1
0
2
Record of Joshu
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1
0
0
1
Record of Linji
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0
0
4
4
Record of Linji
1
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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
Sandokai
0
0
1
0
1
Say a Word of Zen
1
0
0
0
1
Say Something in Response
0
0
1
1
2
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
Snow in a Silver Bowl
1
0
0
0
1
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)
2
0
3
1
6
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)
1
0
4
1
6
Suddenly It's Midnight
0
0
1
0
1
Sun Face Buddha (BCR3)
4
0
1
0
5
Sutra of Complete Enlightenment (BS45)
1
0
1
0
2
Sweet Olive Blossoms (EV18)
0
0
0
1
1
Taking Part in the Gathering
2
0
2
0
4
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-Heart Emperor
1
0
0
0
1
The Coin Lost in the River (MK64)
2
2
3
0
7
The Dao Is in the Ant
0
0
1
0
1
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)
2
0
1
1
4
The Four Boundless Vows
8
0
1
0
9
The Girl Comes Out from Meditation (GG42)
1
0
0
0
1
The Great Koan NO (GG1) (BS18)
2
0
1
0
3
The Great Way Is Not Difficult (BCR2)
0
0
2
0
2
The Green Mountain (BS)
0
0
1
1
2
The Land of Demons (EV42)
6
0
2
0
7
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 Drenched with Rain (MK21)
1
0
0
0
1
The Stone in Sea of Ise
2
0
1
0
3
The Strawberry
0
0
1
0
1
The Teaching Is Upside Down (BCR15)
0
0
1
0
1
The Valley Streams Run Deepest Indigo
1
0
1
0
2
The Whole Purpose of Your life
1
0
0
0
1
The Whole World Is Medicine (BCR87)
1
0
2
0
3
The Woman at the Inn (MK32)
1
0
0
1
2
This Very Heart Mind Is Buddha
4
0
0
0
4
Times of Great Difficulty
2
0
2
0
4
Torei Zenji's Bodhisattva's Vow (Sutra)
0
0
0
1
1
Tortoise Mountain Wakes Up (BCR22)
1
0
0
0
1
Turning Around (MK68)
0
0
1
1
2
Vast Emptiness
1
0
1
0
2
Vast Emptiness, Nothing Holy (BCR1)(BS2)
0
0
1
0
1
Warrior Koans (WK30)
0
0
0
1
1
Wash Your Bowls (GG)
2
0
1
0
3
We Are What We Think
0
0
1
0
1
What Am I?
0
0
1
0
1
What Are the Dharma Gates through which the Bodhisattva Enters the Gate of Nonduality
1
0
0
0
1
What Does Essential Nature Look Like? (MK28)
1
0
0
0
1
What Is Buddha?
2
0
2
0
4
What is it like to have a self?
1
0
0
0
1
What Is It You Lack (MK38e)
1
0
0
0
1
What Is It? (BCR51)
1
0
1
0
2
What Is the Problem?
1
0
0
0
1
What Is the Way?
2
0
2
0
4
What Is This?
7
0
1
5
12
What Is This? (BCR51)
1
0
2
0
3
What Is Your Light? (BCR86)
9
0
0
0
9
What Will Sansheng Eat? (BC49)
0
0
0
1
1
Whatever Confronts You
0
0
2
2
4
Whatever Confronts You Trust the Light Within
1
0
1
1
3
When It's Hot
1
0
0
0
1
When the Rain Beats Down (MK28d)
1
0
1
0
2
When Will You Meet Today?
0
0
1
0
1
Where Are You Coming From?
0
0
1
0
1
Where do songs come from?
0
0
1
0
1
Where do you go when you die?
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?
4
0
3
1
8
Who Is Meditating
2
0
0
0
2
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 Sermon from the Third Seat (GG25)
1
0
0
0
1
Yangshan’s Enlightenment (BS62)
1
0
1
0
2
Yanguan's Rhinoceros Fan (BCR91)(BS25)
0
1
3
0
4
your mother is ugly!
1
0
0
0
1
Your Original Face before Your Parents Were Born
0
0
1
0
1
Yu the Doughnut Maker (MK75)
0
1
1
2
4
Yunmen Has A Light (BCR86)
14
0
2
0
16
Yunmen Reveals the Golden Wind (BCR27)
2
0
1
1
4
Yunmen Says It Upside Down (BCR15)
0
0
1
0
1
Yunmen Says Something in Response (BCR14)
0
0
1
2
3
Yunmen's Day of the Full Moon (BCR6)
2
0
1
1
4
Yunmen's Golden-haired Lion (BCR39)
2
0
0
2
4
Yunmen's Good Day (BCR6)
1
0
3
1
5
Yunmen's One Treasure (BCR62)
2
2
2
0
6
Yunmen's Two Sicknesses (BS11)
1
0
0
0
1
Yunmen’s Medicine and Sickness Cure Each Other (BCR87)
5
0
2
5
12
Yunyan Asks Daowu About Hands and Eyes (BCR89)
5
1
3
3
12
Yunyan's Talking To A Rock
1
0
1
0
2
Zhaozhou's Gates (BCR9)
1
0
1
0
2
Zhaozhou's No (GG1)(BS18)
6
1
4
2
13
Zhaozhou's Welcome
1
0
2
0
3
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
1
0
1
3
5
Zhuangzi's Great Fear is Vast and Calm
0
0
0
1
1

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