Publisher's Synopsis
A case collection compiled by Zen Master Baiyun Shouduan [1025-1072CE]. Here is translated 87 cases from Baiyun Duan's shorter recorded sayings, with verse commentary by the Master. Also included is an introduction with half a dozen or so sermons given by Baiyun Duan and recorded in other collections, as well as an appendix that looks more in depth at some of the cases provided that discuss Sengcan's poem Faith in Mind, translated here in full for the reader's appreciation. Each case in the appendic includes commentary from various Zen Masters that lived during the Song Dynasty, taken from various texts, including the Blue Cliff Record. All has been rendered out of the original Chinese, which is included side-by-side with the English.
