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Gong'an in China
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Cultural legacy
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Kōan in Japan
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Examples of traditional kōans
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Overview
- Japanese Japanese language
- Chinese Chinese language
- Pinyin
- Korean Korean language
- Vietnamese Vietnamese language
- Story Narrative
- Dialogue
- Chinese Chan Chan Buddhism
- Zen
- Korean Seon
- Thiền
- Buddhist Buddhism
- Further practice Kenshō
- (Buddha-)nature Buddha-nature
- Zazen
- Rinzai Rinzai school
- Sōtō
- Hua Tou
- Sunyata
- Dharmakaya
- Five Ranks of Tozan Five Ranks
- Ten Grave Precepts Bodhisattva Precepts
- Akizuki Akizuki Ryomin?action=edit&redlink=1
- Shin'ichi Hisamatsu
- Mu-kōan
- Kensho
- Ama Samy
- Prajna Wisdom in Buddhism
- Satori
- Kyōgai
Etymology
Doctrinal background
- Unanswerable question The unanswered questions
- Meaningless Nonsense
- Absurd Absurdity
- Original face
- Nonduality
Gong'an in China
- Song dynasty
- Jingde Record of the Transmission of the Lamp The Jingde Record of the Transmission of the Lamp
- Schlütter Morten Schlütter?action=edit&redlink=1
- Yunmen Wenyan
- Robert Buswell Robert Buswell Jr.
- Literati Scholar-official
- Allusions Allusion
- Hanzi
- Dahui Zonggao
- Woodblocks Woodblock printing
- Blue Cliff Record
- Insight Vipassana
- Śamatha Samatha
- Dale S. Wright
- Dharma transmission
- Rōshi
- Oshō
- Sanzen
- Yuanwu Keqin
- Book of Equanimity
- Romanized Romanization of Japanese
- Hongzhi Zhengjue
- Wansong Xingxiu
- The Gateless Gate
- Wumen
- Zhaozhou Congshen
- Huiweng Wuming Huiweng Wuming?action=edit&redlink=1
- Anthology of the Patriarchal Hall
- Hagiographical Hagiography
- Yuan Dynasty
Modern Chinese Chan and Korean Seon
- Sheng Yen Sheng-yen
- Xuyun Hsu Yun
- Xuyun
- Nianfo
- Amitabha Buddha Amitābha
- Seung Sahn
- Kwan Um School of Zen
Kōan in Japan
- Rinka monasteries Five Mountain System
- Enni-bennen Enni
- Musō Soseki
- Hakuin
- Sōtō Zen
- Dōgen
- Shōbōgenzō
- Genjokōan Genjōkōan
- Gentō Sokuchū
- Sanbo Kyodan Sanbō Kyōdan
- Hakuun Yasutani
- White Plum Asanga
- Taizan Maezumi
- Five ranks of Tozan Dongshan Liangjie
Examples of traditional kōans
- Wu Mu (negative)
- Wade–Giles
- Kanzeon
- Huineng
- Hui Ming Hui Ming?action=edit&redlink=1
- Buddha Gautama Buddha
- Linji Linji Yixuan
- Mount Sumeru
- Dongshan Shouchu
- Flax
- Ummon
Cultural legacy
- Dogen
- Eihei-ji
- Ikkyū
- Kyoto
- Dharma name
- Philip Kapleau
- D. T. Suzuki
- Alan Watts
- Douglas Hofstadter
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
- Frank Herbert
- Paradoxical Paradox
- Dune series Dune (franchise)
- Escher M. C. Escher
- South Korean film Cinema of South Korea
- Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?
- Zendo
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- The Holy Mountain The Holy Mountain (1973 film)
- University of Mexico
- Keisaku
- The Dharma Bums
- Jack Kerouac
- Yunmen shit-stick kōan Shit stick
- Manga
- Lone Wolf and Cub
- Kazuo Koike
- Goseki Kojima
- Hacker
- Computer science
Criticism
- Huangbo Huangbo Xiyun
- Foyan Qingyuan
- Bassui Tokushō
- Bankei Yōtaku
- Kodo Sawaki Kōdō Sawaki
- Without the guidance of a teacher Wisdom without a teacher
- Daehaeng
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Nodes195
Edges194
Triples150
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010256
Components1
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Top relations
related to In Sanbo Kyodan and White Plum Asanga · 25
Koan → After, Blue Cliff Record, Book, Equanimity, Five, Gateless Gate, Hakuin's, Harada-Yasutani, It, Light, Mumonkan, Record, Rinzai, Sōtō-priest Hakuun Yasutani, Taizan Maezumi, Takuju, Takuju-curriculum, The, The Sanbo, The Sanbo Kyodan
related to In Japanese Sōtō · 21
Koan → By, Commentaries, During, Dōgen, Few Sōtō Zen, Genjokōan, Genrō, Greater Shōbōgenzō, He, Japan, Later, One Hundred Old Cases, Over, Rinzai, Sōtō, Tenchian, Tetsumon, Tetteki Tōsui, The Iron Flute, Verses
related to Further reading · 20
Koan → Basic Books, Boston, Essential, Essential Writings, Hoffmann, ISBN, Japan, John Daido, Koan Study, Koans, Loori, One Hand, Originally, Sitting, The Sound, This, Wisdom Publications, Yoel, Zen, Zen Practice
related to Rinzai school · 20
Koan → After, Blackbird, Blue Cliff Record, Chin'u, Chinese, Collection, Entangling Vines, Gateless Gate, Hekigan-roku, In, Japanese, Japanese Rinzai, Kōan, Mumonkan, Rinzai, Shumon Kattoshu, Takuju-school, The Inzan-school, What, Wings
related to Criticism from within the Zen tradition · 17
Koan → According, Arthur Braverman, Bassui Tokushō, Bodhidharma, Chanti Weizhao, Foyan Qingyuan, He, Ikkyū Sōjun, In, Koans, Rinzai, Schlütter, Sengbao, Song, The Song, True, Zen
related to Does a dog have Buddha-nature · 14
Koan → Book, Case No, Chao-chou, English, Giles, However, Japanese, Joshu, Serenity, This, Wade, Wu, Wúménguān, Zhaozhou
related to Academic criticism · 12
Koan → Albert Welter, An, Buddhism, Chan, For Welter, However, It, Mario Poceski, Steven Heine, Such, Tang-era, While
related to Other criticism · 8
Koan → According, Alan Watts, He, Regarding, Suzuki, The, Watts, Zen
see also · 5
Koan → Buddhism KirigamiKoans, Subhuti, Tanzan, TetsugenList, Yunmen WenyanOriginal
related to External links · 3
Koan → PagesKoan Collections, Studies, Zen Buddhism Koan Study
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Important terminology
kōan zen practice chinese rinzai chan also one master japanese according gong'an school sōtō masters koans case students like student
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Philip Kapleau | instance of | 15 from The Gateless Gate and thereafter earning his dharma name Ikkyū.Facing criticism by Buddhists | 0.80 | text |
| D | instance of | 15 from The Gateless Gate and thereafter earning his dharma name Ikkyū.Facing criticism by Buddhists | 0.80 | text |
| hitting | instance of | encounter-dialogue stories depicting bizarre antics | 0.80 | text |
| shouting are best understood as caricatures which tell us less about the Chan masters who are their subjects than the motives of the people who created them | instance of | encounter-dialogue stories depicting bizarre antics | 0.80 | text |
| as they | instance of | encounter-dialogue stories depicting bizarre antics | 0.80 | text |
| Koan | related to Academic criticism | An | 0.60 | section |
| Koan | related to Academic criticism | It | 0.60 | section |
| Koan | related to Academic criticism | However | 0.60 | section |
| Koan | related to Academic criticism | Mario Poceski | 0.60 | section |
| Koan | related to Academic criticism | Tang-era | 0.60 | section |
| Koan | related to Academic criticism | Such | 0.60 | section |
| Koan | related to Academic criticism | Chan | 0.60 | section |
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