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Table of Contents
- Koans - Some Definitions
- A Register of Known Koan Collections
- Works Dealing With the Koan Study
- About the Denkoroku koans
- Known English commentaries to Denkoroku koans
- Bibliography of commentaries to Denkoroku koans
About the
Denkoroku (J.) (E. Transmission of Light) koans
Denkoroku (J.) (E. Transmission of Light, Account by the Monk Keizan
of the Transmission of the Light [Lamp]). A collection of 53 koans concerning
the circumstances of the Dharma transmission amongst the 53
patriarchs within the Ts'ao-tung (Soto) line of
Zen. A text attributed to the Zen master Keizan Jokin (1268-1325),
the fourth generation teacher of the Dogen's school of Soto Zen.
General structure of cases within the koan collection:
- The Case - an exchange between a teacher and his disciple
- Keizan's background notes on the lives of the protagonists
- Keizan's commentary on the Case
- Keizan's capping verse
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Known English commentaries to
Denkoroku koans
Case names are taken from Cleary (1990). Books dealing exclusively
with the koans are referrred to by the year of their publication.
Commentaries embedded in materials dealing with other issues are
referred to by the year and page number.
[Case 01] [Case 02] [Case 03] [Case 04]
[Case 05] [Case 06] [Case 07] [Case 08]
[Case 09] [Case 10] [Case 11] [Case 12]
[Case 13] [Case 14] [Case 15] [Case 16]
[Case 17] [Case 18] [Case 19] [Case 20]
[Case 21] [Case 22] [Case 23] [Case 24]
[Case 25] [Case 26] [Case 27] [Case 28]
[Case 29] [Case 30] [Case 31] [Case 32]
[Case 33] [Case 34] [Case 35] [Case 36]
[Case 37] [Case 38] [Case 39] [Case 40]
[Case 41] [Case 42] [Case 43] [Case 44]
[Case 45] [Case 46] [Case 47] [Case 48]
[Case 49] [Case 50] [Case 51] [Case 52]
[Case 53]
Denkoroku - Case 01
Shakyamuni Buddha
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Tarrant (1992),
Denkoroku - Case 02
Kasyapa
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 03
Ananda
[This case corresponds to:
Wu-Men Kuan Case 22
]
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Loori (1988:111-122),
Denkoroku - Case 04
Shanavasa
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 05
Upagupta
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 06
Dhrtaka
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 07
Micchaka
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 08
Vasumitraa
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 09
Buddhanandi
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 10
Punyamitra
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
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Denkoroku - Case 11
Parshva
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 12
Punyayashas
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 13
Ashvaghosha
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 14
Kapimala
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 15
Nagarjuna
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 16
Kanadeva
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 17
Rahulata
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 18
Sanghanandi
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 19
Jayashata
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 20
Kumarata
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
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Denkoroku - Case 21
Jayata
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 22
Vasubhandu
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 23
Manora
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 24
Haklena
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 25
Sinha
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Treace (2001),
Denkoroku - Case 26
Vashashita
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 27
Punyamitra
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 28
Prajnatara
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 29
Bodhidharma
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Anzan and Dainen 1999),
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 30
Huike (Shenguang)
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Loori (1988:71-23),
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Denkoroku - Case 31
Sengcan
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 32
Daoxin
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 33
Hongren
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 34
Huineng
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Loori (1994:119-131),
Denkoroku - Case 35
Quingyuan
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 36
Shitou
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 37
Yaoshan
Commentaries:
Hartman (1996),
Hixon and Tworkov (1995),
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 38
Yunyan
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 39
Dongshan
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Loori (1994:251-263),
Denkoroku - Case 40
Yunju
Commentaries:
Hartman (1996),
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
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Denkoroku - Case 41
Daopi
Commentaries:
Bolleter (1996),
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 42
Tongan
Commentaries:
Hartman (1996),
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 43
Liangshan
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 44
Dayang
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 45
Touzi
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 46
Daokai
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 47
Danxia
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 48
Wukong
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 49
Zongjue
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 50
Zhijian
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
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Denkoroku - Case 51
Rujing
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 52
Dogen
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
Denkoroku - Case 53
Ejo
Commentaries:
Keizan (in Cleary 1990),
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Bibliography
- Anzan Hoshin and Joshu Dainen (transl.). 1999. Denkoroku: Record of the Transmission
of Luminosity by Keizan Jokin zenji, Chapter 29. White Wind Zen Community, Ottawa, Canada.
[Available online from URL
http://www.wwzc.org/translations/denkoroku.htm
- Bolleter, Ross. 1996. 'I have already become like this -
Denkoroku: Case 41'.
Mind Moon Circle - The Journal of the Sydney Zen Centre. pp. 9-12. Autumn 1996.
- Cleary, Thomas. 1990. Transmission of Light [Denkoroku] - Zen in
The Art of Enlightenment by Zen master Keizan. San Francisco: North
Point Press.
- Hartman, Blanche. 1996.
Right There Where You're Standing [Denkoroku Case 37,40, 42].
A Dharma Talk by Zenkei Blanche Hartman, The Wind Bell, Volume XXX,
No. 2, Summer, 1996.
[Available online from URL
http://www.intrex.net/chzg/Hartman2.htm
- Hixon, Lex and Helen Tworkov. 1995. Living Buddha Zen. Larson Publications.
- Loori, John Daido. 1988. Mountain Record of Zen Talks. Boston and London: Shambhala.
- Loori, John Daido. 1994. Two Arrows Meeting Mid-Air: The Zen Koan.
Boston, Rutland, Vt. and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Co.
- Tarrant, John. 1992.
Denkoroku Case 1.
An unpublished sesshin teisho of 5 Dec 1992.
[Available online from URL
ftp://coombs.anu.edu.au/coombspapers/otherarchives/electronic-buddhist-archives/
buddhism-zen/teachings/tarrant-john/tarrant-teisho-92-12-05.txt]
- Treace, Bonnie Myotai. 2001. Ancient Springtime Mind Light.
Transmission of the Light, Case 25.
[Available online from URL
http://www.mro.org/zmm/talks/myotai5.htm]
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