APPENDIX III.
Reading edition
Reproductions of paintings illustrating Zen legend.
BODHIDHARMA.
(1) With tightly closed lips, as he appeared before the Emperor of China in 520. Masterpieces of Sesshū, Pl. 47.
(2) Crossing the Yangtze on a reed. Perhaps the best example may be seen not in a reproduction, but in No. 22 of the original Chinese Paintings at the British Museum.
(3) Sitting with his face to the wall. He sat thus in silence for nine years in the Shōrin Monastery on Mount Sung. Kokka 333.
EKA.
Second Patriarch of the sect. Severed his own arm and presented it to Bodhidharma. In spite of his fanaticism (or because of it) the Founder did not at first regard him with complete confidence and recommended to him the study of the Langkāvatāra Sūtra, not considering him ripe for complete, non-dogmatic Zen. Eka waiting waist-deep in the snow for the Founder to instruct him. Masterpieces of Sesshū, Pl. 45.
ENŌ.
Sixth Patriarch. See above, p 15. Kokka, 289, 297.
TOKUSAN, died 865 A.D.
Shimbi Taikwan, I, 13, shows him with his famous Zen stick. He is also sometimes depicted failing to answer an old market-woman’s riddle; and tearing up his commentary on the Diamond Sūtra.
TANKA.
A painting by Indra (Kokka 173) shows him burning the wooden statue of Buddha at the Erin Temple.