5 • TESTING, CONTESTING, BESTING Ambiguity in Gong’an Dialogues

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. A NOTE TO THE READER viii
5. INTRODUCTION The Gateless Barrier in Context 1
6. 1 • THE GONG’AN TRADITION IN THE GATELESS BARRIER AS A “SPECIAL TRANSMISSION OUTSIDE THE TEACHING” 27
7. 2 • DAHUI ZONG’GAO AND HIS IMPACT ON THE GATELESS BARRIER 52
8. 3 • THE GATELESS BARRIER AND THE LOCUS OF TRUTH 80
9. 4 • PARADOX IN THE GATELESS BARRIER 99
10. 5 • TESTING, CONTESTING, BESTING Ambiguity in Gong’an Dialogues 116
11. 6 • A GATE OF THEIR OWN? Women in Wumen’s World 137
12. 7 • PUBLIC CASES IN KOREAN SŎN BUDDHISM 160
13. 8 • FROM SECRECY TO OPENNESS The Gateless Barrier in Premodern Japanese Zen 181
14. 9 • KŌAN KUFŪ Embodying the Kōan in Rinzai Zen Practice 204
15. 10 • ON KŌAN TRAINING 226
16. THE GATELESS BARRIER 249
17. A SURVEY OF ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE GATELESS BARRIER 295
18. CROSS- REFERENCE TO CITATIONS OF THE GATELESS BARRIER 307
19. CHARACTER GLOSSARY 309
20. BIBLIOGRAPHY 325
21. CONTRIBUTORS 337
22. INDEX 341