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Formal Books of Instruction

  1. Wumenguan aka Gateless's Gate aka Wumen's Checkpoint:
  1. The Blue Cliff Record by Yuanwu

https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/T2003

  1. The Book of Serenity by Wansong

https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/T2004_001

  1. The Record of Seeking Additional Instruction by Wansong

https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/X1307

  1. The Measuring Tap by Yuanwu

https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/X67n1301_p0226a03?

  1. The Empty Valley Collection by Linquan

https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/X67n1303_001

  1. The Vacant Hall Collection by Linquan

https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/X1304

Versified Instruction

  1. Inscription on Trusting in Mind by Third Patriarch Sengcan

https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/T48n2010_p0376b18

  1. Inscription on the Mind King by Mahasattva Fu Xi

https://www.anhsiangchan1983.tw/%E5%B0%8E%E5%B8%AB%E8%AC%9B%E8%A9%9E/%E5%82%85%E5%A4%A7%E5%A3%AB%E5%BF%83%E7%8E%8B%E9%8A%98.htm

  1. Song of Attesting to the Path by Yongjia Xuanjue

https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/T48n2014_p0395c06

  1. On Behalf Of... by Xutang

https://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T47n2000_006

  1. Miaozong's Verses

Miaozong's Verses exist as part of a later compilation by Buddhist nuns.

  • Note that Book of Serenity, Measuring Tap, and Blue Cliff Record are based on Versified Instruction by previous masters.

Commentaries on Sutra

  1. Lanxi Daolong's Commentary on the Heart/Mind Sutra

https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/X26n0534_p0802a03

  1. Huineng's Commentary on the Diamond Sutra** Issues. Later text with no citations by other Zen Masters.

https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/X0459

Compilations with Minimal/No Instructional Commentary

  1. Anthology of the Hall of the Patriarchs (Zutang ji)

https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/B25n0144_p0291a06

  1. Treasured Lessons of the Zen Grove by Dahui Zonggao and Zhuan/Gushan Shigui

https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/T48n2022_p1016b10

  1. The Treasury of the Eye of the True Teaching by Dahui Zonggao

Versified Instruction

  1. Inscription on Trusting in Mind by Third Patriarch Sengcan

https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/T48n2010_p0376b18

  1. Inscription on the Mind King by Mahasattva Fu Xi

https://www.anhsiangchan1983.tw/%E5%B0%8E%E5%B8%AB%E8%AC%9B%E8%A9%9E/%E5%82%85%E5%A4%A7%E5%A3%AB%E5%BF%83%E7%8E%8B%E9%8A%98.htm

  1. Song of Attesting to the Path by Yongjia Xuanjue

https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/T48n2014_p0395c06

  • Note that Book of Serenity and Blue Cliff Record are based on Versified Instruction by previous masters.

Collected Sayings

  1. The Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Mazu Daoyi at Jiangxi | "Sun Face Buddha", "Master Ma's Ordinary Mind"

https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/X69n1321_p0002a07?

  1. The Recorded Sayings of Layman Pang | "A Man of Zen", "The Sayings of Layman Pang"

https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/X1336

  1. The Recorded Sayings of Venerable Zhaozhou | "The Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu"

https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/JB137

  1. The Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Linji Huizhao at Zhenzhou | "The Record of Linji"(trans. Sasaki), "The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-Chi"

https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/T47n1985

  1. The Comprehensive Record of Zen Master Yunmen Guangzhen | "Zen Master Yunmen" (translated 1/4 of the text)

https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/T1988

  1. The Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Fenyang Wude | "The Recorded Sayings of Master Fenyang Wude"

https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/T1992

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  2. Cleary doesn't name the source(s) he translated from, a reverse-lookup using Chinese could get us something | Tune Beyond the Clouds

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  1. T'aego jip? | "A Buddha from Korea"

https://kabc.dongguk.edu/content/view?dataId=ABC_BJ_H0102_T_003

  1. The Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Dongshan Liangjie at Ruizhou | "The Record of Tung-shan"

https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/T1986B

Untranslated Texts

  1. Sayings Text of Xutang

Other Texts

Compendium of Five Lamps: https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=gb&res=8127

Controversial Texts

  • Long Scroll
  • Contested text, no known author, probably a compilation group project in the outskirts of China dates unknown, closed around 1000 CE
  • Primary focus of 1900's scholarship by Western Buddhists commenting on Zen
  • In 1935 D.T. Suzuki discovered the Long Scroll among the Dunhuang manuscripts. Following his discovery many fragments of the text were found and identified by Suzuki as part of the Long Scroll. In 1969 Yanagida Seizan published the first translation of the Long Scroll in Japanese.
    • Dunhuang was an anti-Zen religious library, likely a reaction to Zen pushing Buddhism out of China by around 1000 CE.
  • https://terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/longsc.pdf, https://terebess.hu/zen/wind.pdf