Gateless Gate Mumonkan Koan Collection

 

Gateless Gate, Gateless Barrier (Wumenquan, Mumonkan)
Compiled around 1250 CE. 48 Koans GB

Subject Index for the 48 Koan Cases in the Gateless Barrier (GB).
Indexing by Michael P. Garofalo. First Draft, March 25, 2023, 9 pages, PDF.

Alphabetical List of the 48 Case Titles in the Gateless Barrier (GB)
Indexing by Michael P. Garofalo. First Draft, March 25, 2023, 2 pages, PDF.

List of Cases by the 48 Case Numbers for the Gateless Barrier (GB)
Indexing by Michael P. Garofalo. First Draft on March 25, 2023, 2 pages, PDF.

Subject Index to 1,001 Zen Buddhist Koans

The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans  Commentary and translation by Koun Yamada. Foreword by Ruben L. F. Habito. Wisdom Publications, 2004. 336 pages. ISBN: 9780861713820. "In The Gateless Gate, one of modern Zen Buddhism's uniquely influential masters offers classic commentaries on the Mumonkan, one of Zen's greatest collections of teaching stories. This translation was compiled with the Western reader in mind, and includes Koan Yamada's clear and penetrating comments on each case. Yamada played a seminal role in bringing Zen Buddhism to the West from Japan, going on to be the head of the Sanbo Kyodan Zen Community."
VSCL, Paperback. I studied this book to prepare the First Draft (March 25, 2023) of indexing for the Gateless Gate Koan Collection.
Indexing stored in the GB database (GB = Gateless Barrier or Gateless Gate).

The Gateless Barrier: Zen Comments on the Mumonkan. By Zenkai Shibayama. Shibayama Roshi (1894-1974). Translated by Sumiko Kudo. Introduction by Shibayama Roshi. Preface by Kenneth W. Morgan, Colgate University. Boston, Shambhala, 2000. Glossary, index, 361 pages. ISBN: 9781570627262.  "For more than seven centuries the Mumonkan (Gateless Barrier) has been used in Zen monasteries to train monks and to encourage the religious development of lay Buddhists. It contains forty- eight koans, or spiritual riddles, that must be explored during the course of Zen training. Shibayama Zenkei (1894-1974), an influential Japanese Zen teacher and calligrapher who traveled and lectured throughout the United States in the 60s and 70s, offers his own commentary alongside the classic text. The Gateless Barrier remains an essential text for all serious students of Buddhism."  These lectures (Teisho) on the Gateless Barrier were given at Colgate University in 1974.
VSCL, Paperback. I studied this book to prepare the Second Draft of indexing for the Gateless Gate. Second Draft expected in March, 2024.

Koans Research Project.  By Michael P. Garofalo.

Rinzai Zen Buddhist Studies