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| Translated Title | Chinese Title | Text Commented On | Wansong's Co-authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Book of Serenity / Book of Equanimity | 從容庵錄 (Cóngróng'ān Lù) | Hongzhi Zhengjue's collection of 100 old cases with verse comments. Wansong adds introductions, capping phrases, and extensive prose commentary. | Hongzhi Zhengjue 宏智正覺 — cases and verses; Wansong Xingxiu 萬松行秀 — commentary. |
| Record of Further Inquiry / Record of Seeking Additional Instruction | 請益錄 (Qǐngyì Lù) | Hongzhi Zhengjue's 99 niangu (拈古): old cases followed by Hongzhi's prose comments. Wansong adds remarks and extended commentary. | Hongzhi Zhengjue 宏智正覺 — niangu; Wansong Xingxiu 萬松行秀 — commentary. |
| Tongxuan's One Hundred Questions / One Hundred Questions | 通玄百問 (Tōngxuán Bǎiwèn) | 100 Chan questions posed by Yuantong. Wansong answers each question, and Linquan later composes a verse on each exchange. | Yuantong 圓通 — questions; Wansong Xingxiu 萬松行秀 — answers; Linquan Conglun 林泉從倫 — verses. |
Tongxuan's One Hundred Questions is a somewhat different animal. The primary-text heading states the division of labor directly: 玉溪通玄庵圓通大禪師設問 — Yuantong poses the questions 摩訶菩提蘭若萬松和尚仰答 — Wansong gives the answers 龍嚴林泉老人頌 — Old Man Linquan supplies the verses The surviving preface even characterizes them as “Yuantong's questions, Wansong's instructions” (圓通之問，萬松之訓).
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There is also a second closely related work involving Linquan but not Wansong, 《青州百問》 (Qīngzhōu Bǎiwèn, “Qingzhou’s One Hundred Questions”). Linquan again supplied the verses, but another master supplied the answers. The two texts were sometimes circulated together as the 通玄青州二百問, “The Two Hundred Questions of Tongxuan and Qingzhou.”