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12500 Feet Down Lies the Titanic
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0
0
1
2
99 Curves (MK7)
1
0
1
1
3
A Donkey Sees a Well (BS52)
4
0
3
0
3
A Matter of Special Worth
5
0
0
0
5
A Stone Drenched with Rain (MK19)
4
0
1
1
6
A Straight Hook Seeks Fish That Turn Away From Life (MK54)
2
0
2
1
4
A Thousand Mountains (MK13)
0
0
2
0
2
A Woman Comes Out of Meditation (GG42)
1
0
0
0
1
Abiding Nowhere the Heart-Mind Comes Forth (MK65b)
11
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4
1
14
Alive or Dead? I Won't Say (BCR55)
0
0
0
5
5
Alone and Poor (GG10)
2
0
2
0
2
Amnesty (BCR24)
1
0
0
0
1
An Australian Koan (MK41)
0
0
1
0
1
Ancestor Ma's Duck Flies Away (BCR53)
1
0
0
0
1
Baizhang Mountain's Wild Fox (GG2)
1
0
0
0
1
Baizhang's Fox (GG2) (BS8)
2
3
3
4
11
Baling Haojian’s Three Barriers (MK74)(BCR13)(BCR100)
1
2
1
1
5
Baling's Falling into a Well (MK74b)
5
0
4
2
10
Baling's Snow in a Silver Bowl (MK74a)(BCR13)
10
1
3
0
10
Baling’s Blown-Hair Sword (MK74c)(BCR100)
1
1
1
2
5
Bankei's Miracle
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3
2
7
Be a Tiger in the Mountains
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1
1
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2
Beauty & the Beast
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1
Beauty and the Beast
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1
1
Belinda and the Monster
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0
1
1
Blue Dragon's Cave (BCR3)
5
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4
1
10
Bodhidharma and the Buddha-Heart Emperor and the Magical Duke (BCR1)(BS2)
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2
0
3
Bodhidharma Comes and Goes (MK43)
2
0
1
1
4
Bodhidharma Sets the Mind to Rest (GG41)
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0
0
3
Bodhidharma's Vast Emptiness (BCR1)(BS2)
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9
2
16
Bodhisattva of Compassion
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0
1
2
2
Bodhisattva Vows
1
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1
2
3
Bodhisattvas Come Eat Your Rice (BCR74)
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0
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1
Buddha Has No Country (BS68)
2
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0
1
3
Buddha's Hand (MK16a)
2
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3
0
4
Buffalo through the Window (GG38)
1
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2
4
7
Can you bear this happiness
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0
0
1
Caoshan's Dharma Body (BS52)
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2
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2
Catching a Catfish with a Gourd
0
0
0
1
1
Changsha Wandering in the Mountains (BCR36)
2
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3
4
9
Counting (MK8)
1
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0
0
1
Crossing the Brook (MK23)
0
1
0
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1
Dahui's Great Doubt
1
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1
0
2
Dalong's Pure Everlasting Body (BCR82)
4
1
1
0
5
Dalong's What Is the Mysterious (Ta Lung)
2
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0
0
2
Dancing Mountains (MK5)
1
0
2
0
3
Daowu and Jianyuan Offer Condolences (BCR55)
0
0
0
1
1
Dasui's Fire at the End of the Kalpa (BCR 29)
3
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2
1
5
Deshan Meets the Tea Lady (GG28)
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2
0
2
Deshan's Bowls in Hand (GG1)
1
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0
0
1
Deshan's Enlightenment (GG28)
3
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1
1
4
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
2
3
8
Dogs at Midnight (MK4)
1
0
0
0
1
Dolphins (MK10)
1
0
0
0
1
Don't Believe It
2
0
4
0
5
Donghan's Five Ranks (2nd)
5
0
1
0
5
Dongshan Sick (BS94)
2
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4
0
2
Dongshan's Cold Kills You Heat Kills You (BCR43)
2
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3
0
5
Dongshan's Each Stitch
1
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2
1
1
Dongshan's Five Ranks
3
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1
4
8
Dongshan's Five Ranks (1st)
12
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4
4
19
Dongshan's Five Ranks (3rd)
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1
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2
Dongshan's Five Ranks (4th)
1
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2
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3
Dongshan's Five Ranks (5th)
2
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1
0
2
Dongshan's Five Ranks (The Record of Dongshan)
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0
0
1
1
Dongshan's Just This Is It
2
0
2
1
5
Dongshan's No Grass (BS89)
1
0
0
0
1
Dongshan's Three Paths
3
1
1
4
7
Dongshan's Voice of the Cuckoo (MK52)
4
1
1
2
8
Dongshan’s Jewel Mirror Samadhi
1
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0
4
5
Doushuai’s Third Barrier (MK73c)
0
2
1
1
4
Doushuai’s Three Barriers (MK73) (GG47)
0
0
2
0
2
Doushuai’s Wild Places (MK73a)
1
0
0
1
2
Dragon Murmurings (BCR2)
0
0
1
0
1
Dragon Singing in a Withered Tree
3
0
4
0
5
Each Branch of Coral Holds Up the Moon (MK74c)
2
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2
2
3
Emperor Wu Questions Bodhidharma (BCR1)(BS2)
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6
4
17
enjoy yourself!
1
0
0
0
1
Entangle
0
0
1
0
1
Enter There
0
0
2
0
2
Everything Is True
1
0
0
0
1
Fayan's Students Roll Up the Blinds (GG26)
0
1
1
0
2
Fayan's Where Is the Boat? (BS51)
1
0
0
0
1
Find Something That Is Not Medicine
2
0
0
1
3
Fire at the End of the Universe (BCR29)
1
0
2
3
5
fish
0
0
1
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)
1
1
4
6
10
Forget the Self
0
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2
0
2
Free and Easy Wandering
2
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0
0
2
Freely I Watch the Tracks of the Flying Birds (MK23b)
7
1
3
1
10
Ghost (MK17)
4
1
2
0
7
Ghosts Howl and Spirits Wail (BCR 59)
0
0
1
0
1
Gifts of the Far Ocean
0
0
0
1
1
Give Me the Reaching
2
0
1
0
3
Going to Wild Places (MK73)
4
0
1
0
5
Guanyin's Hands and Eyes (BCR89)
6
1
3
3
13
Guishan's No Foundation to Rely On (BS37)
1
0
3
0
1
Guishan's Zen (MK67)
0
0
1
0
1
Guishan’s Zen (MK67)
2
0
1
1
3
Hakuin's Great Light
1
0
0
0
1
Hakuin's Praise Song for Meditation
8
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3
4
15
Hakuin's Sound of One Hand
1
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0
2
3
Hanging by Your Teeth (GG5)
2
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4
2
6
Hanshan's Tree (MK39)
1
0
0
0
1
Hawaiian Myth
1
0
0
1
2
Heart Sutra
5
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5
5
15
Hell in an SUV (MK26)
2
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2
1
4
Hermit of Lotus Peak (BCR25)
2
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1
0
3
Hongzhi's Called Back from the Dream (MK34)
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0
4
7
How Are You?
1
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1
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2
How Do I Become Free?
0
0
1
0
1
How Do You Cross a Stream?
0
0
1
2
3
How do you unify Hawai'i?
1
0
0
1
2
Huangbo's Gobblers of Dregs (BCR11)
1
0
0
0
1
Huineng's No North & South (GG23)
1
0
2
0
3
Huineng's Original Face (GG23)
10
0
9
8
18
I Know for Myself if It Is Warm or Cold (GG23)
1
0
0
0
1
I Vow To Do Good
1
0
0
0
1
I Vow To Do Good for Others
1
0
0
0
1
I Vow To Do No Harm
1
0
0
0
1
I Vow To Live the Great Buddha Way
2
0
0
1
3
I Vow to Set Endless Heartache to Rest
1
0
2
0
3
I Vow to Walk through Every Wisdom Gate
1
0
0
0
1
If You Are Scorned (BCR97)
0
0
3
0
1
If You Get It the First Time (BS76)
2
0
1
1
3
Ikkyu's Attention
1
0
0
0
1
Ikkyu's Well (MK22)
2
1
2
0
5
In Front of the Dead Tree Cliff (BS)
1
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0
0
1
In Front of the Dead Tree Cliff (BS)
1
0
0
2
3
In the Dark (MK51)
1
0
0
1
2
Indra's Net
1
0
0
1
2
Jade Elephant
0
0
1
0
1
Jiashan Gardening (BS68)
1
0
1
1
3
Jiashan Meets the Boat Monk
1
0
4
2
7
Jiashan's State of Mind (EV99)
7
0
2
1
10
Jiashan's Surroundings (EV99)
0
0
0
1
1
Jiashan’s Surroundings (EV99)
1
0
0
0
1
Jinniu Dances Before the Meal (BCR74)
0
0
1
1
1
Judi's One Finger Zen (BCR19) (BS84)(GG3)
2
0
1
0
3
Juifeng Does Not Acknowledge (BS96)
1
0
0
0
1
Juiyan Calls to Himself (GG12)
0
0
1
0
1
Just This Is It
7
0
2
1
10
Knock on Any Door (BCR)
6
0
3
1
10
Laozi's True Traveler
1
0
3
0
4
Learning Speech & Silence (GG24)
1
0
1
0
2
Legend of Yellow Crane Pavilion
2
0
0
2
4
Lingzhao's Blades of Grass
2
0
0
1
3
Linji's Blockhead
1
0
1
1
3
Linji's Nothing I Dislike (MK38a)
3
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2
3
8
Linji's Nothing To Do
0
0
1
0
1
Linji's Solitary Brightness (MK38c)
10
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3
4
15
Linji's Take the Role of Host (MK38d)
9
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6
2
14
Linji's True Person (MK38b)(BS38)
2
0
6
3
9
Linji's True Place (MK38d)
1
0
2
3
6
Little Jade (MK47)
2
0
2
4
8
Loch Ness Monster (MK11)
2
0
1
0
3
Luopu About To Die (BS41)
0
0
3
1
3
Ma's Sun Face Moon Face Buddha (BCR3)
1
0
1
0
2
Maralung, An Australian Koan (MK41)
1
1
0
0
2
Master Ma Is Unwell (BCR3)
0
0
1
0
1
Mayu Fanning (GK)
1
0
0
0
1
Mazu's Make Yourself a Raft
10
1
5
2
15
Mazu's Purpose of Your Life
7
0
2
1
10
Mazu's Samadhi of Buddha Nature
0
0
1
0
1
Mazu's Your Own Heart Mind
4
0
1
0
5
Muzhou Shuts the Door
0
0
0
1
1
Not for Anything Else (BCR11)
1
0
0
1
2
Not Knowing Is Most Intimate (MK62)(BS20)
10
0
4
6
17
Not Picking & Choosing (BCR2)
9
0
3
4
15
Not Picking and Choosing (BCR 58)
1
0
0
0
1
Not the Wind, Not the Flag (GG29)
1
0
0
0
1
Nothing to Complain About
2
0
0
0
2
Ocean of Bright Clouds
1
0
0
0
1
One Speck of Dust (BCR19)
1
0
0
0
1
One Strip of White Silk (BS96)
1
0
1
0
1
Ordinary Mind Is the Way (GG19)
5
0
3
3
10
Ox Herding
1
0
0
2
3
Pang Family's Helping (MK40)
2
0
1
0
3
Peach Blossoms (MK37) (EV8)
18
2
7
1
26
Peach Trees Make a Path (BS79)
3
0
0
0
3
Pillar (MK18)
0
1
0
0
1
Poverty (MK71)
1
0
1
0
2
Pure Vows
1
0
1
0
1
Ready (MK57)
0
0
2
0
2
Refuges
0
0
1
0
1
Rhinoceros Fan BCR91)(BS25)
1
1
3
0
4
Salt and Sauce
1
0
0
1
2
Say a Word of Zen (GG3)(BCR19)(BS84)
1
0
3
0
3
Say Something in Response (BCR14)
2
0
2
2
5
Say Something without Moving Your Lips (MK30b)
1
0
0
0
1
Searching for the Ox
1
0
0
1
2
See with Your Ears (GG16)
1
0
0
1
2
Shelter (MK14)
0
1
2
6
8
Shishuang's Hundred-Foot Pole (GG46)(BS79)
2
1
0
0
3
Shitou's Grass Hut
0
0
1
1
2
Shitou's Rightful Heir
0
0
1
0
1
Shitou's Turn Your Light Inwards
0
0
1
0
1
Shoushan's Three Phrase BS76
0
0
1
0
1
Shoushan’s Three Shots at Getting It (BS76)
0
0
1
0
1
Sickness and Medicine (BCR87)
8
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0
2
10
Silence (GG)
2
0
1
0
3
Silver Mountain and Iron Cliff (BCR 57)
1
0
2
0
3
Sixteen Bodhisattvas Take a Bath (BCR78)
2
0
6
2
7
Solitary Boat
6
0
2
6
14
Southern Barbarians
0
0
1
0
1
Spoken by Demons
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0
1
0
1
Standing at the Edge of a Cliff
0
1
0
0
1
Standing on the Point of a Needle (MK36c)
1
0
0
0
1
Step by Step in the Dark (MK72)
3
0
3
1
7
Stone Crypt (MK20)
2
0
5
4
9
Stone Hitting Bamboo (GG5)
0
0
1
0
1
Stone Woman Gives Birth (MK33)
2
1
0
0
3
Stop Chasing About
1
0
0
0
1
Suddenly It's Midnight
3
0
2
1
6
Sun Face Moon Face Buddha (BCR3)
3
0
0
0
3
Sutra of Complete Enlightenment (BS45)
1
0
1
0
2
Taking Part in the Gathering
9
0
4
19
31
Talking about the Deepest Matters
0
0
2
0
1
Talking to a Rock
1
0
0
2
3
Teaching That Lasts a Lifetime (BCR14)
3
0
1
1
4
Temple Bell (MK1)
3
1
0
0
4
Ten Thousand Feet Down (MK27)
4
1
3
1
9
The Buddha Responds to an Outsider (GG32)
1
0
0
0
1
The Coin Lost in the River (MK64)
4
2
5
0
10
The Dao Is in the Ant
1
0
1
1
3
The Dao that can be named is not the eternal Dao
1
0
0
0
1
The Diamond Sutra (MK65)
0
0
0
1
1
The Diamond Sutra (MK65b)
0
0
0
4
4
The Diamond Sutra's Scorn (BCR97)
0
0
3
0
1
The Egg (MK53)
3
0
0
0
3
The Fire Across the River (MK2)
2
0
3
1
6
The Four Boundless Vows
9
0
2
2
13
The Fresh Breeze
3
0
0
0
3
The Gate of Nonduality (BS48)
1
0
0
0
1
The Golden Bird
1
0
0
0
1
The Goose in the Bottle (MK63)
1
0
1
1
2
The Great Koan NO (GG1) (BS18)
3
0
1
1
5
The Great Silence at the Beginning
1
0
0
10
10
The Great Way Is Not Difficult (BCR2)
6
0
5
0
10
The Green Mountain Walks About (BS41)
0
0
2
1
3
The Journey Itself Is Home
2
0
1
0
3
The Kingdom Is at Peace (BS)
1
0
0
1
2
The Land of Demons (EV42)
7
0
3
0
9
The Mind Is a Great Artist
1
0
0
0
1
The Moon Sets at Midnight (BS76)
2
0
3
2
5
The Oak Tree in the Garden (GG37)(BS47)
0
0
1
0
1
The Sieve (MK58)
1
0
0
0
1
The Sound of One Hand
1
0
0
0
1
The Strawberry
0
0
1
0
1
The Teaching Is Upside Down (BCR15)
0
0
1
0
1
The universe is in a teabowl
1
0
0
1
2
The Valley Spirit Never Dies (DDJ6)
2
0
3
1
6
The Valley Streams Run Deepest Indigo
2
0
3
1
6
The War (MK25)
1
0
4
1
6
The Whole Purpose of Your life
2
0
0
0
2
The Whole World Is Medicine (BCR87)
1
0
2
0
3
The Woman at the Inn (MK32)
2
0
2
2
6
The World Honored One Points to the Ground (BS4)
1
0
0
1
2
Things Are Not As They Appear
1
0
0
0
1
This Very Heart-Mind Is Buddha
5
0
2
0
5
Tile Polishing
0
0
1
1
2
Times of Great Difficulty
2
0
2
0
4
Torei Zenji's Bodhisattva Vow (Sutra)
0
0
1
1
2
Tortoise Mountain Wakes Up
4
0
3
3
9
Trust the Light Within
1
0
1
1
3
Turning Around (MK68)
0
0
1
1
2
Unofficially (MK21)
1
0
0
0
1
We Are What We Think
0
0
1
0
1
What Am I?
1
0
2
1
3
What Are the Treasures of the Lost Cities?
1
0
0
0
1
What Does Essential Nature Look Like? (MK28)
1
0
0
2
3
What Is Buddha?
8
0
3
4
14
What Is It Like To Be You?
2
0
2
4
8
What Is It Like to Have a Self?
1
0
0
0
1
What Is It You Lack (MK38e)
2
0
0
0
2
What Is Meditation?
0
0
1
0
1
What Is Most Urgent for Me?
1
0
0
4
5
What is the Light in Things?
1
0
0
1
2
What Is the Problem?
1
0
0
0
1
What Is the Ultimate Nature of Reality?
0
0
0
1
1
What Is the Way?
2
0
2
0
4
What Is This? (BCR51)
19
0
6
13
36
What Is Your Light? (BCR86)
11
0
0
1
12
What Is Zen?
0
0
0
1
1
What Will Sansheng Eat? (BCR49)
0
0
0
1
1
Whatever Confronts You
1
0
3
3
7
When the Rain Beats Down (MK28d)
1
0
1
0
2
When Will You Meet Today?
1
0
1
0
2
Where Are You Coming From?
0
0
2
0
2
Where Do Songs Come From? (MK41)
0
0
1
0
1
Where Do You Go When You Die?
1
0
6
0
5
Where Have You Come From?
1
0
0
0
1
Who Am I?
11
0
2
1
13
Who Are You?
0
0
1
1
2
Who Is Hearing?
7
0
5
2
13
Who Is Meditating
2
0
1
0
3
Who Is Speaking?
1
0
0
0
1
Why Can't a Clear-eyed Person Cut the Red Thread? (MK30c)
4
1
1
3
8
Wuzi's True Qian (GG35)
0
0
0
1
1
Wuzu- Remember Me When You Are Sick
2
0
0
1
3
Xizhong Builds Carts (GG8)
0
0
1
0
1
Xuefeng's What's This? (BCR51)
6
0
2
6
14
Yangshan's Mind and Environment (BS32)
1
0
1
0
2
Yangshan's Officially
1
0
0
0
1
Yangshan's Sermon from the Third Seat (GG25)
2
0
1
0
1
Yangshan’s Enlightenment (BS62)
1
0
1
0
2
Your Mother Is Ugly!
1
0
0
0
1
Your Original Face before Your Parents Were Born (GG23)
1
0
4
2
5
Your Own Heart and Mind
3
0
0
6
9
Yu the Doughnut Maker (MK75)
0
1
3
2
5
Yunmen Reveals the Golden Wind (BCR27)
2
0
2
1
4
Yunmen Says It Upside Down (BCR15)
1
0
3
1
3
Yunmen Says Something in Response (BCR14)
1
0
2
2
4
Yunmen's Day of the Full Moon (BCR6)
2
0
2
1
4
Yunmen's East Mountain Walks on the Water (EV49)
3
0
2
2
7
Yunmen's Give Me the Reaching
4
0
1
3
7
Yunmen's Good Day (BCR6)
1
0
4
1
5
Yunmen's Light (BCR86)
15
0
3
0
18
Yunmen's Lion with Golden Hair (BCR39)
4
0
2
2
6
Yunmen's Midnight
0
0
3
1
2
Yunmen's One Treasure (BCR62)
3
2
3
0
8
Yunmen's Particle-by-Particle Samadhi (BCR50)
1
0
0
0
1
Yunmen's Sound of the Bell (GG16)
3
0
0
2
5
Yunmen's Two Sicknesses (BS11)
2
0
0
0
2
Yunmen’s Medicine and Sickness Cure Each Other (BCR87)
8
0
5
7
18
Yunyan's Talking to a Rock
1
0
1
1
3
Zhaozhou and the Hermits (GG11)
0
0
1
0
1
Zhaozhou Can't Explain (BCR 58)
2
0
1
0
3
Zhaozhou's Beating Heart
0
0
1
0
1
Zhaozhou's Dharmakaya
0
0
1
0
1
Zhaozhou's Dog
0
0
1
0
1
Zhaozhou's Gates (BCR9)
1
0
1
0
2
Zhaozhou's Idiot (BCR 57)
2
0
1
0
3
Zhaozhou's No (GG1)(BS18)
8
1
10
4
23
Zhaozhou's True Buddha (MK56)(BCR96)
1
0
0
0
1
Zhaozhou's Wash Your Bowls (GG7)
2
0
1
0
3
Zhaozhou's Welcome
1
0
3
0
3
Zhaozhou's Why Don't You Finish It? (BCR 59)
1
0
1
0
2
Zhaozhou’s Dog (GG1) (BS18)
1
0
3
1
4
Zhaozhou’s Greatest Way Isn't Difficult (BCR2)
2
0
1
2
5
Zhaozhou’s Three Turning Words (BCR96)
1
0
0
0
1
Zhuangzi Dreamed He Was a Butterfly
1
0
2
3
5
Zhuangzi's Great Fear Is Vast and Calm
0
0
0
1
1

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