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Interestingly, the Vinaya sect, founded by Tao-hsuan (596-667), was primarily concerned with the laws of monastic discipline. The familiarity of Ch'an teachers with the concerns of this sect may have contributed to the desire to create rules for their own a.s.semblies.

10.Wu, Golden Age of Zen, p. 109.

11.See D. T. Suzuki, The Zen Monk's Life (New York: Olympia Press, 1972); Es.h.i.+n Nis.h.i.+mura, Unsui: A Diary of Zen Monastic Life (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1973); Suzuki, Essays in Zen Buddhism, First Series, pp. 314-362; and Koji Sato, The Zen Life (New York: Weatherhill/Tankosha, 1977). A succinct summary of Zen monastic life is also provided by Sir Charles Eliot in j.a.panese Buddhism (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1935), p. 406.

12.See Blofeld, Zen Teaching ofHui Hai on Sudden Illumination, p. 52.

13.Ibid., pp. 60-61.

14.Ibid., p.48.

15.Ibid., p.133.

16.Ibid., p.77.

17.Ibid., p.55.

18.Ibid., p.56.

19.Ibid., p.78.

20.Ibid., p.54.

8. NAN-CH'UAN AND CHAO-CHOU: MASTERS OF THE IRRATIONAL

1.Chang Chung-yuan, Original Teachings of Ch'an Buddhism, p. 153.

2.Ibid., p. 178.

3.According to a biographical sketch of Nan-ch'uan given by Cleary and Cleary in Blue Cliff Record, p. 262.

4.See Chang Chung-yuan, Original Teachings of Ch'an Buddhism, p. 160.

This was also incorporated in the Blue Cliff Record as Case 40 (Ibid., p. 292), where the Sung-era commentary is actually more obscure than what it attempts to explain.

5.See Chang Chung-yuan, Original Teachings of Ch'an Buddhism, p. 136.

6.Ibid., p. 136.

7.Blyth, Zen and Zen Cla.s.sics, Vol. 3, p. 57.

8.Chang Chung-yuan, Original Teachings of Ch'an Buddhism, p. 159.

9.Ibid., p. 157. This anecdote is also Case 69 of the Blue Cliff Record.

10.Ibid., p. 161.

11.Ibid.