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Essays in Zen Buddhism, First series

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“Abrupt” school, 350.

Account of Succession in the Law, 158.

Accounts of the Orthodox Transmission of the Dharma, by Ch‘i-Sung, 156.

Ādarśa-Jñāna (mirror-insight), 131f.

Amitābha Sūtra, (Chinese), 193, see also Sukhāvatīvyūha.

Anābhogacaryā (act of no-purpose), 66fn., 82.

Ānanda, 55, 59, and Akshobhya, 284.

Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi (supreme, perfect enlightenment), 58, 78; see also Enlightenment.

Arada (or Ālāra Kālāma), 71fn., 145.

Arhat, qualified, 60.

Arhatship, 51, 56, 121.

Ariyapariyesana-suttam, 38fn.

Asanga, 55.

Āśrava (leakage), 50fn.

Aśvaghosha, 55, 56fn., 145, 161.

Aśvajit, 58.

Avataṁsaka Sūtra (Chinese), 89.

Awakening of Faith, the, by Aśvaghosha, 56.

Bāhva, 89.

Basho (Pa-chiao), on “shujō,” 259, silent, 281.

Baso (Ma-tsu), 16, 30, 163, 190, 199, 218, 221f.; in his sick bed, 269; his “Kwats!” 279f.; and Tō-Impo, 291.

Berkeley, on dust, 313fn.

Bhūtatā, 79.

Bhūtatathatā, 131.

Biographies of the High Priests, by Tao-hsüan, 163.

Black-nails, the Brahman, 161.

Blake, 267.

Bliss-bestowing, 366.

Bodhi, 79ff.; see also Enlightenment.

Bodhi-Dharma (Daruma, Tamo), 8, 24, 74, 82, 93, 94, 96, 156, 218; the gāthā by, 160; his life, 163ff.; Six Essays by, 165fn.; his life by Donrin, 167; and the emperor of Liang, 175; in Wei, 176; and his disciples, 177; and Nāgārjuna, 177fn.; his last days, 178; his coming from West, 266; and a nun, 284; and his four disciples, 351.

Bodhiruci, a translator of the Laṅkāvatāra, 74.

Bodhisattvahood, 63; contrasted with Arhatship, 52.

Bodhisattva-sīla Sūtra, (Chinese,) 193, 205.

Bodhism, 152.

Boehme, Jacob, 114.

Bokitsu (Mu-chi), on staff, 20.

Bokuju (Mu-chou), on staff, 21; treatment of Ummon, 10; on dressing and eating, 12f.; on teacher of Buddhas, 269; on Zen, 269; on doctrine going beyond Buddhas, 269f.

Brahmajāla, 50fn., 51.

Buddha, his deification, 33; no metaphysician, 39; motherly, 40; deified, 40fn.; as the world-light, 41; the reason of his appearance, 61; his secluded habit, 68; as a magician, 86; his personality, 101; his personal experience, 107; his predecessors, 108; his reluctance to preach, 109; his proclamation to Upaka 115; and metaphysics, 124ff.; as empiricist, 127; his gāthā of law-transmission, 159; and an old lady, 162; as mind, 220.

Buddhacarita, by Aśvaghosha, 145.

Buddhas, the six, 158; invoked at meal, 310fn.

Buddhism, and its founder, 31ff.; and its Pali scholars, 37; as a life, 37; as the teaching of the Buddha, 37; and its divisions, 42; as a living system of Buddhist experience, 42, 44; its vital problems, 43ff.; its essence, 44; to be comprehensively and inwardly conceived, 48; Buddhism, growing beyond monasticism, 62ff.; and women, 64; Chinese, characterised, 93; persecuted in China, 95; its influence on Taoism, 98; acting on Confucian ideas, 99; defined, 101.

Builder (or designer, gahākara), 117; see also Ego.

Bukkō (Fo-kuang), or Tsu-yüan, 239f.; his tōki-no-gé, 241fn.

Bunki (Wen-hsi), silent, 281.

Candrottara-dārikā Sūtra, (Chinese) 64.

Carlyle, Thomas, 2.

Catushkotika, four logical propositions, 260.

Cause and Effect in the Past and Present, Sutra on the, 38fn.

Causation, the twelvefold chain of, 37, 55, 57, 108, 117, 126, 153, 154; see also under Origination.

Cetovimutti, 60.

Chao-chou, see Jōshū.

Ch‘êng-hao, Confucian philosopher, 99.

Ch‘êng-i, Confucian philosopher, 99.

Chien-ku, 69.

Chih-chiang-liang-lou, a Buddhist translator, 158.

Chih-I (Chigi), a Buddhist philosopher, 94, 100, 143, 190.

Chih-yüeh (Chiyaku), a Buddhist from India, 202.

Chih-huang (Chiko), disciple of Hui-nêng, 208f.

Chinese language, as vehicle of Zen, 337f.

Chinese mind, compared with the Indian, 83ff.; practical, 90.

Chō-kei (Ch‘ang-ching), his tōki-no-gé, 233f.; on Suigan’s eyebrows, 279.

Chosa (Ch‘ang-sha), on Nansen’s death, 17; on earthworm, 313; on the self, 273.

Chōyetsu (Ch‘ang-shuo), a Chinese officer, 193.

Chōsui (Ch‘ang-shui), on the evolution of the absolute, 272.

Chou-tun-i, a Chinese philosopher, 99.

Christ, in the light of Zen, 330.

Christian mystics, 353.

Christianity, and its founder, 35ff.; symbolic, 141.

Chu (Chung), the national teacher, 327; calling to his attendant, 288.

Chuang-tzŭ, 89, 100.

Chu-hsi, a Chinese philosopher, 99.

Citta, 80.

Confucius, 2, 5, 10.

Contradictions, in Zen, 264ff.

Counter-questioning, in Zen, 281ff.

Cow, revered by the Indians, 355; on the herding of, 355; gone out of sight, 364; forgotten, 363; on the back of, 362; herding the, 361; seeing the traces of the, 358; seeing the, 359; catching the, 360; looking for the, 357.

Daizui (Tai-sui), on self, 282.

Daruma (or Tamo), see Bodhi-Dharma.

Democracy, in the monastery, 313.

Designer (or builder, gahākara), 117.

Dhammapāda, 55, 134, 135.

Dharanī, 320fn.

Dharma, the, 58; and Buddhist life, 37; the comprehensive, 39; manifest in the Buddha, 40; defined, 50; the eye of, 53.

Dharmakāya, 34fn., 76.

Dhṛitaka, a Zen patriarch, 159.

Dhyāna (jhāna), and Prajñā, 34ff.; and Zen, 67ff.; against antinomianism, 67; different kinds of, 71ff.; four kinds of, in the Laṅkāvatāra, 81; the true, defined in the Samyukta-āgama, 81fn.; distinguished from Zen, 93; as a spiritual exercise, 154f.; the Tathāgata, 210; the patriarchal, 210; see also under Zen.

Direct action, in Zen, 277ff.

Direct method, in Zen, 283ff.

Discipline, Sutra on the Story of, Chinese, 38.

Discipline (śiksha), the threefold, 69, 135.

Dōfuku (Tao-fu), disciple of Bodhi-Dharma, 177.

Dōgo (Tao-wu), Yenchi, disciple of Yakusan, knows not his master, 265; with Yakusan, 287.

Dōgo, Tenno, instructing Ryūtan, 287.

Dōiku (Tao-yu), disciple of Bodhi-Dharma, 166, 177.

Dōsan (Tung-shan), 97.

Dōshin (Tao-hsin), 182, 187; and Hōyu (Fa-jung), 188f.

Duḥkha (pain), 141.

Eastern Buddhist, the, vi, 1fn.

Eating, in the monastery, 310ff.

Eckhart, cited, 114, 223, 255, 258, 268, 271, 305, 331fn., 364.

Ego, 4; -centric, 4; -substance, not existent, 46, 47.

Ekacitta (one thought), 113.

Ekottara-āgama, 34fn., 40fn.

Emerson, on imagination, 293.

Emptiness (śūnatā), 178ff.; as poverty, 336.

Engakuji, in Kamakura, 306.

Enlightenment, and darkness, 13; essence of Buddhism, 44; and Nirvana, 45; attainable by us, 47; its relation to Zen, 49ff.; as the Dharma, 50; as Nirvana, 51; not intellectual, 56, 111; as final truth, 57; in the Laṅkāvatāra, 60; not discursive understanding, 61; and spiritual freedom, 62ff.; fuller expression of life, 73; not conceptual, 81; in the Saddharma-puṇḍarīka, 84; as a significant fact in the Buddha’s life, 101; and intellection, 107; and ignorance, 107ff.; and the will, 119; as affirmation, 127; not nihilistic, 130; not a passive reflection, 132; and samādhi (or dhyāna), 133ff.; a returning, 138ff.; and the intellect, 139ff.; synthetical, 141; not negative, 144; as essential fact of Buddhism, 152ff.; as satori, 215; graded, 349ff.

Everlasting No, 2.

Everlasting Yea, 2.

Eye (insight), 109.

Exclamation, in Zen, 278ff.

Fa-pao-tan-ching, by Hui-nêng, 201fn., 202f.

Finger, pointing at the moon, 7.

First Fifty Discourses of the Buddha, tr. by Sīlācāra, 355fn.

Freedom, spiritual, 121.

Fu-hsi (Fukyō, or Fudaishi), 189, 258.

Gaṇḍavyūha Sūtra, Chinese, 64.

Gantō (Yen-tou), 239f.

Gāthās of transmission, 159.

Genkaku (Hsüan-chiao), 207.

Genkaku cho (Hsüan-chiao Chêng); on Chu the national teacher, 288fn.

Gensaku (Hsüan-t‘sê), 208f.

Gensha (Hsüan-sha), in water, 277; on self, 277; on transparent crystal, 277f.; on the murmuring of a stream, 278; and a piece of cake, 278; on Chu the national teacher, 288fn.

Gensoku (Hsüan-t‘sê), and the god of fire, 294.

Godaishi (Wu-tao-tzŭ), and the emperor Hsüan-tsung, 292f.

God-consciousness, in Zen, 336.

Goroku (Yü-lu), sayings, III., IV.; Chinese colloquialism in, 97.

Gozusan (Niu-tou-shan), 187.

“Gradual” school, in Zen, 350.

Gunabhadra, a translator of the Laṅkāvatāra, 74, 202.

Gunin (Hung-jên), the fifth patriarch, 30, 196, 173, 187, 189, 191.

Gutei (Chuh-chih), one finger Zen, 22fn.

Gwarin, (Wo-luan) a disciple of the sixth Patriarch, 209.

Haikyū (P‘ei Hsiu), and Ōbaku, 266f., 289.

Hakuin; 238ff., 267, 327; on Ummon’s “Kwan!” 279; Song of Zasen, 322f.; and his teacher Shōju, 324f.

Hekiganshu, an important book on Zen, 22fn., 320.

Herbert, George, cited, 305.

Hima (Pi-mo), with his forked stick, 261.

Hinayanism, as ascetic formalism, 64.

Hofuku (Pao-fu), 22fn.; on Suigan’s eyebrows, 279; his “for a while,” 281.

Hōgen (Fa-yen), on an inch’s difference, 275; on one drop of water, 275f.; on Chu the national teacher, 288f.; with Gensoku, 294.

Hokkezammai (fa-hua san-mei), 143.

Hōkoji (P‘ang Yun), on the companionless man, 16; Chinese Vimalakīrti, 17; on drawing water, 306, 306fn.

Hōji Bunkin (Pao-tz‘ŭ Wen-ch‘in), on everyday thought, 248.

Hōnen Shōnin, 34fn.

Hōshi (Pao-chih), 189.

Hossu, 20.

Hōyen (Fa-yen), of Gosozan, on Haryo Kan, 103; his tōki-no-gé, 234; on his own portrait, 237; his sermon, 271; and the yogācāra, 275; sermon on burglary, 296f.; on too much Zen, 331; sermon on staff, 345.

Hsiang-yen, see Kyōgen.

Hsien-chou (Genju), a great Buddhist philosopher, 100.

Hsing-szŭ, see Seigen Gyōshi.

Hsüan-chuang (Genjō Sanzo), 92, 100.

Huang-nieh, see Ōbaku.

Hui-chung, see Chu the national teacher.

Hui-k‘ê, see Yeka.

Hui-nêng, see Yeno.

Hui-szŭ (Yeshi), a Chinese Buddhist teacher, 143.

Humility, taught in the monastery, 318.

Hyakujo (Pai-chang), 163; and wild geese, 225. rolling up the matting, 232; deafened by Baso’s “Kwats!” 280; as founder of Zen monastery, 301; on cow-herding, 356.

Hyakujo, Nehan, 13, 247, 286.

Hyakujo Shingi, regulations of the Zen monastery, 301.

Ibnu ’I-Farid, a Persian mystic, 353.

I-ching (Gijō), a Chinese pilgrim and translator, 92.

Ignorance, avidyā, 1, 47; how conquered, 111; not cognitive, 116ff.; and ego, 120, 126.

Iku, or Toryō (Tu-ling Yu), his tōki-no-gé, 234f.

Immortality, 17.

Indian imagination, and the Mahayana texts, 84.

Inshu (Yin-tsung), converted by Yeno, 197.

Insight, its synonyms in Sanskrit, 112ff.; see also eye (cakkhu).

Intellect, disturbing, 6.

Isan (Wei-shan), picking tea-leaves, 289, 314; in the remote mountains, 327.

Ishin Seigen (Wei-hsin Ch‘in-yüan), his view of Zen, 12.

Islamic Mysticism, by R. D. Nicholson, 353f.

Itivuttaka, 131, 133.

Jimyo (Tzŭ-ming), on dust, 22; his counter-questioning, 282; and Suigan Kashin, 295f.

Jinshu (Shên-hsiu), 191, 193, 201, 218.

Jō-jōza (Ting the monk), and Rinzai, 243; with Buddhist scholars, 290f.

Jōshu (Chao-chou), on Zen, 102; “Throw it down!” 162; no abiding place, 205fn.; on washing dishes, 224; “Mu”, 236, 240; one ultimate word, 256, 256fn.; on poverty, 259; on Nansen’s cat, 262; on his new robe, 268; one thing abiding, 269; on Prajñā, 273; his counter-questioning, 282; his direct method, 286; on Chu the national teacher, 288fn.; on dust, 313; crying “fire!” 313; and an old woman, 328f.; his stone bridge, 329; on a crystal, 341; on Bodhi-Dharma, 341.

Kaisu (Ch‘i-sung), a Chinese historian, 158.

Kakuan (K‘uo-an), on ten cow-herding pictures, 355.

Kan of Haryo (Pa-Ling Chien), 103.

Karma, 86.

Katha-Upanishad, 114.

“Kechimyak-ron,” one of the Six Essays by Bodhi-Dharma, quoted, 219ff.

Kegon (Avataṁsaka), 54, 160.

Keisan (Chi-shan), 257fn.

Kena-Upanishad, 30fn., 142fn.

Kensho, seeing into one’s nature, 349.

Kevaddha Sutta, 69fn., 88.

Kido (Hsü-t‘ang), on the evolution of the absolute, 272f.

Kisu (Kuei-tsung), weeding, 270.

Kō-an, IV., 239f., 250; its meaning explained, 319fn.

Koboku Gen (K‘u-mu Yüan), on poverty, 334f.

Kōhō (Kao-fêng), his Zen experience, 236ff.

Kōrin (Hsiang-lin), tired with sitting, 268.

Kōzankoku (Huang-shan-ku), and Kwaido, 230.

Kumārajīva, 100.

Kwanzan, 327.

Kwasan (Hê-shan), his drum, 269.

“Kwatsu!” (hê), 22; four forms of, 280.

Kyōgen (Hsiang-yen), 210; his satori, 227f.; a man up in a tree, 263; on poverty, 334.

Kyōzan (Yang-shan), on Isan’s mirror, 262; and Sansho, 282; picking tea-leaves, 314.

Kwanchu (Huan-chung), on Prajñā, 273.

Lalita-vistara, 146.

Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, 60, 82, 94, 102, 103, 161, 173ff., 193, 202, 336f.; not one word uttered, 55; three Chinese translations of, 74; its special features discussed, 75; a hymn cited from, 76; its main thesis, 76; passages often repeated in, 80; quotation from the first chapter of, 87ff.; on abrupt understanding, 200.

Lao-tzŭ, 30fn., 100, 335.

Lawrence, Brother, 18, 305.

“Learning by doing,” in the monastery, 315.

Liang-chiu (“for a little while”), 281.

Lieh-tzŭ, 89, 330, 351ff.

Life, as affirmation, 2; suffering, 3; assertion of, 285.

Lightning simile, 230f., 241, 284.

Lin-chi, see Rinzai.

Lohicca, 69fn.

Mādhyamika, the, 90, 100, 160.

Mahākāśyapa, or Kāśyapa, 49, 74, 155, 159.

Mahāli-sutta, 50fn., 123, 132.

Mahāpadāna-suttanta, 38fn., 108.

Mahāparinibbāna, 69.

Mahāparinirvāna Sūtra, Chinese, 220fn.

Mahāsaṅghikas, 42.

Mahayana, traceable in Hinayana, 48.

Mahayanism, and libertinism, 64.

Mahāvyutpatti, 70fn.

Maitreya, 85.

Majjhima-nikāya, 146, 147.

Manas, 80.

Mañjuśrī, 64, 86, 90; as Prajñā, 273.

Maññitams, (self-assertion), 136.

Manovijñāna, 80.

Manura, the twenty-second patriarch of Zen, 159.

Ma-tsu, see Baso.

Maturing, of Zen life, 327f.

Maudgalyāyana, 58.

Mayoku (Ma-ku), and Ryōsui, 288.

Meaningless affirmation, in Zen, 267ff.

Meditation, 81; in Zen, 19, 20fn., 206ff.; five objects of, 72fn.; ten objects of, 72fn.; meditations on food, three, 310; five, 310.

Meditation Hall, IV., 24, 301ff.

Mencius, 4.

Meritlessness, 330; meritless deeds, 336.

Miracles, Buddhist view of, 123fn.

Moksha, 52; see also Vimoksha.

Monastery life, described, 309f.; practical, 305.

Mondō (questions and answers), 222, 256.

Monks, as labourers, 312.

Moon, and a finger, 6.

Mu-chou, see Bokuju.

Mumon (Wu-men), on poverty, 33.

Musō Kokushi, 321; his exhortation, 321.

Myō-jōza (Ming the Monk), 195.

Mystics and Saints of Islam, by Claud Field, 225fn.

Na-lien-ya-shê, a Buddhist translator from India, 158.

Nan-ch‘üan, see Nansen.

Nangaku (Nan-yüeh), 210, 212, 222, 236; and his disciples, 351.

Nansen (Nan-ch‘üan), 17, 30, 163, 292; everyday thought, 248; and his cat, 262.

Nāgārjuna, 55, 56, 100, 161, 355fn.

Nanyin (Nan-yüan,) 210.

Nan-yüeh, see Nangaku.

Negation, in Zen, 260ff.

Nenro, commentary remark peculiar to Zen, 225.

Nigrodha, 68.

Nirvana, 37, 45, 101; in samsara, 13; not annihilation, 47; in enlightenment, 51; the anupādiśesha, 51, 63; conditioned by samsara, 79; in Sutta Nipata, 131f.; described as security, 147.

Nirvāṇa Sūtra, Chinese, 193, 197, see also Mahāparinirvāna.

Noble Truth, the Fourfold, 37, 39, 54, 55, 57, 96, 113, 116, 128f. 141, 154.

“No work, no eating,” 302f.

Non-achievement, 218.

Non-attachment, 161, 335f.

Non-ego, 37, 153, 154.

Nyoi, 20.

Ōbaku (Huang-po), 9, 163, 218; with his staff, 285f.; with Haikyū, 289; and Rinzai, 291; with a hoe, 314.

Ōkubo Shibun, and his bamboo picture, 259f.

“One thought” (ekacitta), 56, 113.

One voice (ekaśvara), 43fn.

Orategama, a collection of letters by Hakuin, 238.

Original face, the, 195, 210.

Origination, theory or chain of (pratītya-samutpāda), 46, 66fn., 96, 142f.; see also Causation.

Pai-chang, see Hyakujo.

Pali Text Society, Journal of, v.

Paññā, 109; and enlightenment, 126; its Pali synonyms, 112ff.; See also Prajñā.

Paññā-vimutti, 60.

Pao-lin-ch‘uan, a lost Zen history, 158.

Paradox, in Zen, 258ff.

Paramārtha, or paramārthasatya, 79, 202.

Pāramitās, virtues of perfection, 170.

Parikalpana (or vikalpa), 113.

Parinibbāna-suttanta, 41fn.; see also Mahāparinibbāna-suttanta.

Paticca-samuppāda, 114, 116, 129; see also Origination and Causation.

Patriarchs, the twenty-eight, 157.

Pieh-chi, a Zen document, 172.

Pi-kwan, wall-gazing, 167, 171ff.

Platform Sutra, by Hui-nêng, 209; see also Fa-pao-tan-ching.

Plotinus, 268.

Poverty, in Zen, 333ff.

Prajñā, 52ff., 61, 65, 66, 94, 113, 134ff., 273, 275; see also Paññā, and under Dhyāna and Enlightenment.

Prajñā-pāramitā Sūtra, 88, 90, 91, 100, 103, 142fn., 161, 205fn., 266; the philosophy of, 136f.; its school, 80.

Pratyātmajñāna, or -gocara, 76ff., 81, 91, 153.

Prodigal son, the, in the Buddhist texts, 140ff.

Raft, the simile of, 136ff.

Rakuho (Le-p‘u), his “Kwats!” 280.

Rasan (Lo-shan), his counter-questioning, 282.

Rāvana, 77, 87.

Records of the Right Transmission, a Zen history by Ch‘i-sung, 158.

Records of the Spread of the Lamp, a Zen history by Li Tsun-hsü, 156.

Records of the Transmission of the Lamp, a Zen history by Tao-yüan, 156, 158, 164, 166, 204.

Refuge formula, the threefold, 62.

Reiun (Ling-yün), on the appearance of the Buddha, 285.

Religion of the Samurai, by Kwaiten Nukariya, v.

Repetition, in Zen, 271ff.

Returning, 139; to the origin, 365.

Rhys Davids, 70fn.

Righteousness, the eightfold path of, 37, 55. 96, 153, 154.

Rightful Lineage of the Sākya Doctrine, a history of Chinese Buddhism, 163.

Rinzai (lin-chi), 190, 210, 281; on a man of no title, 8f.; on staff, 21; the school of, 212; on Ōbaku’s Buddhism, 232; and Ōbaku, 291; his “Kwats!” 279f.; his “rough” method, 290; with a hoe, 314; sermon on Zen life, 331f.

Rinzairoku, Sayings of Rinzai, 320.

Risan (li-shan), 256fn.

Ruskin, 15.

Ryōsui (Liang-sui), answering Mayoku, 288.

Ryüttan (Lung-t‘an), receiving instructions from Dōgo, 287.

Saddharma-puṇḍarīka Sūtra, 43fn., 54, 61, 66, 84, 89, 193. 355f.

Sai-an (Chi-an), and Vairocana Buddha, 162.

Samādhi, 94, 208f.; distinguished from dyhāna, 70; its synonyms, 70.

Sāmaññā-phala Sutta, 68, 69fn., 71fn., 128, 131.

Saṁsāra, 79.

Samyutta-nikāya, 59, 142fn.

Sandhana, a follower of the Buddha, 68.

Sangha, 68.

Sansho (San-shêng) 210; and Kyōzan, 282.

Sanzen, 323f.

Śāriputra, 61, 86; his spiritual attainment, 58; in the Puṇḍarika, 61.

Satori, (awakening), 19, 24, 215ff.; as intuitive understanding, 216; and conversion, 217; as ken-shō (chien-hsing), 219; not discursive, 228; and mental effort, 231; and self-suggestion, 244; absolutely needed in Zen, 244f.; not meditation, 246; and seeing God, 246; intimate experience, 247; not abnormal, 248; and freedom, 249; as enlightenment, 249.

Schopenhauer, 144.

Secchō (Hsüeh-tou), compiler of Hekigan, 22fn.; on Ummon’s “Kwan!” 279.

Secret Virtue, 328ff.

Seigen Gyōshi (Ch‘ing-yüan Hsing-szŭ), the source of the Soto, 212.

Seizei (Ch‘ing-shi), 259fn.

Seki, Seisetsu, 357fn.

Sekisō (Shih-shuang), on the ultimate fact, 286.

Sekitō (Shih-t‘ou), 17, 163, 190, 199, 264.

Self-suffering, in Zen, 329.

Sêng-t‘san, see Sōsan.

Sesshin period, 319ff.

Shari (śārīra), 316.

Shên-hsui, see Jinshu.

Sheng-chou-chi, a lost Zen history, 158.

Shifuku (Tzu-fu), silent, 281.

Shih-t‘ou, see Sekitō.

Shiko (Tzŭ-hu), on earthworm, 314.

Shin sect, as “other-power,” v.

Shingon, 160; and Swedenborg, 45fn.

Shinko (Shên-kuang), 176f.; see also Yeka.

Shinran, 34fn.

Shippé, 20.

Shōkō (Shêng-kuang), on earthworm, 314.

Shuan (Shou-an), on poverty, 333.

Shujyō, 20.

Shukō (Chu-hung), on anger, 317f.

Shuzan (Shu-shan), 256fn.; on shippé, 261; on Buddhism, 269; his “for a while,” 281.

Śikshānanda, a translator of the Laṅkāvatāra, 74.

Silence, in Zen, 280f.; Vimalakīrti’s 280; and Zen masters, 281.

Six Essays by Bodhi-Dharma, 218; see also under Bodhi-Dharma.

Sixth Patriarch, see Yeno.

Sōji (Tsung-chih), 177.

Sonadanda, the Brahman, 142fn.

Sorrow, sanctifying, 4.

Sōsan (Sêng-t‘san), 181ff.; his writing, 182ff.

Sōtō school, the, 212.

Sotōba (Su Tung-p‘o), on Mount Lu, 11f.

Shaku, Soyen, vii.

Sozan (Ts‘ao-shan), silence revealed by, 281.

Spirits, fed at meal, 311.

Śrīmālā Sūtra, Chinese, 64.

St. Francis, on work, 303f.

Sthaviras, 41.

Sudhana, 64.

Suffering, 3, 4.

Sufis, 353.

Suibi (Ts‘ui-wei), Mugaku, on Tanka, 317.

Suibi (Ts‘ui-yen), on his eyebrows, 279.

Suigan Kashin, and Jimyō, 295f.

Sukhāvativyūha Sūtra, 43fn.

Sumeru, Mount, 87.

Sumiye-painting, and Zen, 284.

Śūnyatā, emptiness, 47, 56, 80, 100.

Supernaturalism, Indian, 86; miracles, wonders, etc., 88, 90.

Śūraṅgama Sūtra, Chinese, 272.

Sutta Nipata, 50fn., 130, 132.

Swedenborg, 45fn.

Tai-an, on cow-herding, 356.

Taigi (tai-i), fixation, 238f.

Tanka (Tan-hsia), burning a Buddha’s image, 316f.

“Tat twam asi,” 258.

Tathagata, his knowledge, 122.

Tathāgata-dhyāna, 82.

Tathāgata-garbha, 78, 80.

Tathatā, 79.

Tao-hsüan, a Buddhist historian, 163ff.

Tao-shin, see Sōsan.

Tao-wu, see Dōgo.

Tao-yüan, a Zen historian, 164ff.

Tauler, 305, 333.

Teisho, Zen lecture, 320.

Ten Cow-herding Pictures, 349ff.

Tendai, 54; and Zen, 190.

Tennyson, 20.

Tenryu (T‘ien-lung), “one finger” Zen, 22fn.; his counter-questioning, 282.

Tenryūji, in Kyoto, 321, 357fn.

Terstegen, 278.

Tê-shan, see Tokusan.

Tesshikaku (T‘ieh-tsui Chiao), knows not his master, 265.

Tevijja, 50fn.

Three conceptions of being, 290.

Tōki-no-gé, 233; by Chōkei, 223f.; by Hōyen Goso, 234; by Yengo, 234; by Yenju, 234; by Yōdainen, 235; by Iku of Toryō, 235; by Bukkō, 241fn.

Tō-Impo (Têng-yin-fêng), crushing Baso’s legs, 291.

Tokusan (Tê-shan), on staff, 21; and the Diamond Sutra, 225, 232; and his stick. 261, 280.

Tokushō (Tê-shao), one drop of water, 276; on Prajñā, 276.

Tōsu (T‘ou-tzŭ), on the Buddha, etc., 273.

Trikāya, 34fn.

Tsung-chien (Sōkan), a Buddhist historian, 163.

Tung-shan, see Dosan.

Tzŭ-ming, see Jimyo.

Udraka, 71fn.

Udumbarika-sīhanāda Suttanta, 68.

Ummon (Yün-men), on a good-for-nothing fellow, 10; on staff, 21; 261, 263f.; defines Zen, 102; sermons, 344; on Jōshu’s washing dishes, 224; on poverty, 335; on Zen, 260; his “Kwan!” 279; his laconism, 338.

Umpō (Yün-fêng), on Ummon’s comment on Jōshu, 224.

Ungan (Yün-yen), “Overflowing!” 97; with Yakusan, 287.

Ungo (Yün-chü), Dōyō, and an officer, 288.

Ungo, Shaku, on Chu the national teacher, 288fn.

Upāya (expediency, or device), 65, 66f.

Vajracchedikā Sūtra, 137, 173ff., 189, 191, 198.

Vajrasamādhi Sūtra, Chinese, 64, 94, 170, 173; the prodigal son in, 140.

Vasubandhu, 55.

Vasumitra, 42fn.

Via negativa, 56.

Victory, the hymn of, 55, 59.

Vikalpa, 79, 81.

Vimalakīrti, 86, 89, 90, 258, 280f.

Vimalakīrti Sūtra, Chinese, 63, 64, 161, 181fn., 193, 205f., 207.

Vimoksha (or Moksha), 49.

Vimutti, 52, 53; see also Vimoksha and Moksha.

Vipaśyi, 159.

Wei-shan, see Isan.

Wilde, Oscar, quoted, 4.

Wind, the simile of, 331.

Wither, 267.

Yakusan (Yüeh-shan), 96, 163, 190, 247; with his disciples, 287; giving no sermon, 344.

Yang-shan, see Kyōzan.

Yathābhūtaṁ, 114, 116, 128, 133f.; intuitional, 129f.; empirical, 131.

Yegu (Hui-yü), 259fn., 270.

Yeka (Hui-k‘ê), 74, 82, 166, 173, 177; his life, 178ff.

Yenchi (Yüan-chih), with Sekiso, 286f.

Yengo (Yüan-wu), 22; on dust and flower, 23; his tōki-no-gé, 234.

Yenkwan (Yen-kuan), on Vairocana Buddha, 286.

Yenō (Hui-nêng), the sixth patriarch, 17, 24, 30, 92, 94, 160, 189, 190ff., 218, 250, 327; and the Vajracchedikā, 174; on the flapping pennant, 197; on seeing into one’s nature, 197; talk with the imperial messenger, 198; long sitting, 201; on self-nature, 202; his view of Zen in the Platform Sutra, 203ff.; on prajñā, 204f.; on abrupt teaching, 205; as dynamic intuitionalist, 207; on samādhi and dhyāna, 208f.; his method of instruction, 210; his death, 211; on quiet sitting, 221; on his understanding of Buddhism, 30, 263.

Yervō Chōkei, on staff, 20.

Yesei Bashō, on staff, 20.

Yeshi (Hui-szŭ), a Tendai philosopher, 190.

Yōdainen, his tōki-no-gé, 235.

Yogācāra, 100, 160.

Yōgi (Yang-ch‘i), on poverty, 334.

Yüeh-shan, see Yakusan.

Yün-men, see Ummon.

Zazen, 304.

Zen: (1) in its relation to Buddhism 29; and the doctrine of enlightenment, 29ff., 83ff.; as the essence of Buddhism, 43; is the enlightenment-mind of the Buddha, 49ff.; and the theory of Śunyatā, 174fn.; and the Laṅkāvatāra, 74ff.: (2) in its relation to the Chinese mind, 95; as Chinese product, 154; how it ruled in China, 92ff.; and the Sung philosophy, 98ff.; and the Tendai, 190; and other Buddhist sects in China, 95; in the T‘ang dynasty, 95; in the Sung, 95; in the Yuan and the Ming, 95; legendary history of, 155: (3) as a discipline, 14; and asceticism, 15, 309; its monastery training, 326f.; and poverty, 259fn.; and the boiling oil, 16; deadly poison, 18: (4) in its relation to the intellect, 6; as “self-power,” v; as a liberating agent, 1; teaches freedom, 11; as the solution of life-problems, 5; no generalisation, 12; never explains, 8f.; irrational, 11; paradoxical, 258ff.; the culmination of intellectual efforts, 254; as an unutterable sigh, 278fn.: (5) psychologically viewed, self-suggestion, 18; subconsciousness, 19; the sense of returning, 143; leaving no traces, 3: (6) specific features of, summed in four lines, 7, 163; its methods of teaching, 24, 253ff.; methods classified, 257; its gradation, 24; (see also the Ten Cow-herding Pictures); its derivation, 67; and dhyāna, 67ff.; and meditation, 67; practical, 54; different from tranquillisation, 73; not quiet sitting, 222; seeing into one’s own nature, 203, 204; acquiring a new viewpoint, 215ff.; nothing secret in, 13; and the sumiye-painting, 284; defined, 102; Southern and Northern schools, 199; the instant and the gradual, 199; its monastery system psychologically and morally considered, 303ff.: (7) its language, 274; and colloquialism, 340.

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · One of the popular lectures prepared by the author for students of Buddhism, 1911. It was first published in The Eastern Buddhist, under theNote 6 · Zen has its own way of practising meditations so called, for the Zen methods are to be distinguished from what is popularly or HinayanisticaNote 11 · This reminds one of the remarks made by the master Ten (Chan), of Hofuku (Pao-fu), who, seeing a monk approach, took up his staff and struckNote 12 · Hekiganshu is a collection of one hundred “cases” with Seccho’s (Hsüeh-tou) poetical comments and Yengo’s partly explanatory and partly critNote 13 · Gutei was a disciple of Tenryu (T‘ien-lung), probably towards the end of the T‘ang dynasty. While he was first residing in a small temple, hNote 1 · Compare this with the statement made by the sixth patriarch himself when he was asked how it was that he came to succeed the fifth patriarchNote 2 · The conception of Dharmakāya apart from the physical body (rūpakāya) of the Buddha was logically inevitable, as we read in the Ekottara-ĀgamNote 3 · The absolute faith Shinran had in the teaching of Hōnen as is evidenced in this quotation proves that the Shin sect is the result of ShinranNote 4 · This was very well understood by the Buddha himself when he first attained Enlightenment; he knew that what he realised in his enlightened sNote 6 · That the personality of the Buddha was an object of admiration and worship as much as, or perhaps more than, his extraordinary intellectual Note 7 · When the Buddha entered Nirvana, the monks cried, “Too soon has the Tathagata passed away, too soon has the World-honoured One passed away, Note 8 · For a more or less detailed account of the various Buddhist schools that came up within a few centuries after the Buddha, see Vasumitra’s SaNote 9 · Cf. The Sukhāvatī-vyūha (edited by Max Müller and B. Nanjio), p. 7, where we have: “Buddhasvaro anantaghoshah,” that is, the Buddha’s voice Note 10 · Here we find the justification of a “mystic” interpretation of the sacred books of any religion. The Swedenborgian doctrine of CorrespondencNote 11 · Cf. such Sutras as the Tevijja, Mahāli, Brahmajāla, etc. in the Dīgha Nikāya. See also the Sutta Nipāta, especially the Atthakavagga, which Note 12 · That the Buddha never neglected to impress his disciples with the idea that the ultimate truth was to be realised by and in oneself, is evidNote 19 · According to Aśvaghosha’s Awakening of Faith, Ignorance means the sudden awakening of a thought (citta) in consciousness. This may be variouNote 22 · In this connection it may not be amiss to say a word about what is known in Buddhism as the “act of no-effort or no-purpose” (anābhogacaryā)Note 25 · The Pali text that will correspond to this Chinese Sutra in the Dīrgha-Āgama is the Kevaddha Sutta, but the passage quoted here is missing. Note 26 · The rendering is by Rhys Davids who states in the footnote: “The word I have here rendered ‘earnest contemplation’ is Samadhi, which occupieNote 27 · One hundred and eight samadhis are enumerated in the Mahāvyutpatti. Elsewhere we read of “innumerable samadhis.” Indians have been great adeNote 28 · This series of dhyanas has also been adopted by Buddhists, especially by Hinayanists. No doubt the Mahayana conception of dhyana is derived Note 29 · For example, the ten subjects for meditation are: Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, Morality, Charity, Heaven, Serenity, Breathing, Impermanence, and Note 2 · There is however a Sutra in the Saṁyukta Āgama, fas. XXXIII., p. 93b (Anguttara-Nikāya, XI., 10), dealing with true dhyana (ājānīya-jhāna) wNote 16 · The idea of performing miracles systematically through the power acquired by self-concentration seems to have been greatly in vogue in IndiaNote 26 · Samyutta XII., 65, Nagara; cf. also one of the Prajñā-pāramitā sūtras which is known as one preached by Mañjuśrī (Nanjo Catalogue, No. 21). Note 4 · Six Essays by Bodhi-Dharma[4.25] is the book in which the so-called writings of Bodhi-Dharma are collected. See also the Essay “On Satori” wNote 13 · In this connection I wish to make some remarks against certain scholars who consider the philosophy of Śūnyatā to be really the foundation oNote 17 · According to Hsieh-sung, the author of the Right Transmission of the Law, Bodhi-Dharma has here followed Nāgārjuna in the anatomy of Zen-undNote 20 · In the Vimalakīrti, Chapter III., “The Disciples,” we have the following: “Do not worry about the sins you have committed, O monks,” said ViNote 1 · These accounts, whether truly historical or not, concerning the controversy between the two leaders of Zen early in the T‘ang dynasty prove Note 2 · This is a constant refrain in the teaching of the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras—to awaken one’s thought where there is no abode whatever (na kvacit Note 2 · According to the Mahāparinirvāna-sūtra, translated into Chinese by Dharmaraksha, A.D. 423, Vol. XXXIII., he was one of the three sons of theNote 5 · In Claud Field’s Mystics and Saints of Islam (p. 25), we read under Hasan Basri, “Another time I saw a child coming toward me holding a lighNote 20 · This lively utterance remind one of a lightning simile in the Kena-Upanishad (IV. 30): “This is the way It [that is, Brahman] is to be illusNote 1 · Another time when Jōshu was asked about the “first word,” he coughed. The monk remarked, “Is this not it?” “Why, an old man is not even alloNote 2 · There are many mondoes purporting to the same subject. The best known one by Jōshu is quoted elsewhere; of others we mention the following. Note 3 · Another time a monk was told, “Hold on to your poverty!” Nan-yin Yegu’s (Nan-yüan Hui-yü) answer to his poverty-stricken monk was more consoNote 7 · Does this not remind us of an old mystic who defined God as an unutterable sigh?Note 8 · A monk asked Hsüan-sha, “What is the idea of the National Teacher’s calling out to his attendant?” Said Hsüan-sha, “The attendant knows wellNote 3 · He was the noted Confucian disciple of Baso (Ma-tsu), and his wife and daughter were also devoted Zen followers. When he thought the time haNote 6 · I must not forget to mention that after the reading of the Hṛidaya Sūtra the following names of the Buddhas and others are invoked: 1. VairoNote 8 · This question of dust reminds one of Berkeley’s remark: “We have just raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.”Note 10 · Kung-an is a question or theme given to the student for solution. It literally means “public document,” and, according to a Zen scholar, it Note 13 · Dharaṇī is a Sanskrit term which comes from the root dhṛi, meaning “to hold.” In Buddhist phraseology, it is a collection, sometimes short, Note 19 · The wind is probably one of the best imageries to get us into the idea of non-attachment or Śūnyatā philosophy. The New Testament has at leaNote 6 · See also a Sutra in the Anguttara Āgama bearing the same title, which is evidently another translation of the same text. Also compare “The HNote 7 · The ten pictures reproduced here were specially prepared for the author by Reverend Seisetsu Seki, Abbot of Tenryuji, Kyoto, which is one of
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