Research Help?

For each of these questions I'm looking the Chinese, and one of these answers will do: (1) Result, (2) Too Difficult, (3) Obstacle (text not available)

I'm thinking of writing up a review of the whole "Wall Gazing" thing. I'd like some Chinese to pull it off:

Need

Text, followed by quote

1. Yunmen
   • ancient ones faced the wall and shut the gate…
2. Daian
   • in an empty house, gazing like a wall 3, BCR
   • When Bodhidharma arrived there, he did not appear for any more audiences, but went directly to Shao Lin Monastery, where he sat facing a wall for nine years, and met the Second Patriarch. People thereabouts called him "The Wall-Gazing Brahmin."
   • "The Patriarch came from the West and sat facing a wall for nine years; isn't this sitting for a long time and becoming weary?"
   • Before he returned to the West Bod­hidharma sat facing a wall for nine years, utterly silent.
3. Zen Dawn
   • Those who pacify mind do wall-gazing.
4. BoS
   • The emperor said, " Who are you facing me?" (He finds tusks in his nostrils.) Bodhidharma said, "Don't know." ('If you see jowls from behind his head...') The emperor didn't understand.(A square peg doesn't fit in a round hole.) Bodhidharma subsequently crossed the Yangtse River, came to Shaolin, and faced a wall for nine years.
   • hanging his mouth up on the wall at Shaolin was only eighty percent.
   • Whenever Luzu saw a monk coming, he would immediately face the wall.(The meeting is done.)
5. Various texts mentioned in Chán Buddhism in Dūnhuáng and Beyond
   • The Chuán fǎbǎo jì was implacably opposed to the Continued Lives’ account, stating that the record that enemy troops had cut off Huìkě’s arm was false.14 It attacked Dàoxuān’s biography of Bodhidharma and his ‘Evaluation’ of Bodhidharma’s teachings, without naming Dàoxuān or the Continued Lives, for writing of ‘wall-like meditation’ (see later) and the ‘four practices.’ The author of the Chuán fǎbǎo jì, Dù Fěi 杜朏
   • There are a number of analyses of the Two Entrances section of the Long Scroll that differ considerably. Some see the meditation practice of Bodhidharma as being in the image of “a typically Hinayanistic ascetic,” based on Dàoxuān’s description,120 or that his practices were a Buddhist way of living.121 Yet Dàoxuān clearly states Bodhidharma was a follower of Mahāyāna122 and that his bìguān 壁觀 (‘wall meditation’) was Mahāyāna and of the highest merit.
     • A passage from the Two Entrances section quoted by Dàoxuān in his biography of Bodhidharma as, Deeply believe that sentient beings share the one true nature, which is blocked by adventitious contamination. Therefore one ought to reject the counterfeit and return to the true (by) stabilizing oneself in wall contemplation
   • The next element of what Huìkě learnt, according to Dàoxuān, was ‘principle and phenomena are merged’ (lǐ shì jiān róng 理事兼融 ).136 This initially looks like Huáyán doctrine, but this and similar words only appear from the time of Fǎzàng 法藏 (643–712), with a hint of this in the Huāyán jīngnèi zhāngmén děngzá kǒngmùzhāng 華嚴經內章門等雜孔目章 by Zhìyǎn 智儼 (602–668), which also refers to ‘wall meditation’ as a Hīnayāna method.
   • One of the more obscure texts which both Tōnglǐ and Dàochēn mention (in the Jìngxīn lù) is Bodhidharma’s Notes on the Wall (Dámó dàshī bìjì 達摩大師壁記 , 𗣩𘉒𘜶𘘚𗳃𘐆 ).
6. The Records of the Wall [Biji] by the Chan master Wuji
7. Jijie Lu
   • Luzu’s “eating”: A monk asked Luzu, (This wall-facing fellow retards people.) “
8. Linji
   • sit, leaning against a wall
9. D.T. Suzuki's Pie chih text? I can't find the link... brb

Have

for the sake of reference, here's chinese we already have:

1. Mingben
   • mind is like a wall, then one can enter… p 299
2. Wumenguan Case XLI DARUMA'S MIND-PACIFYING
   • wall gazing

Notes

1. Huineng wrote on a wall. Was that a common practice? Was "facing a wall" related to facing what had been written there?
2. Zen Dawn:
   • "Passing through walls". Does wall = barrier?
   • "Wall portrait".
     
3. Early Chan in China/Tibet
   • The caves of the early period of Mògāo (fourth–sixth century), such as D-MG 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, were rather small and therefore ideal sites for meditation and visualization practices. Typically, the wall paintings included scenes from Śākyamuni’s life and jātaka (i.e., previous births of the Buddha) narratives, Thousand Buddhas (qiānfó 千佛) motifs, depictions of scenes from key sūtras, etc.
4. Blyth's Wumenguan:
   • A still more interesting story is given by Kato, con­cerning 6keisho, a high official of the Tang Dynasty. He learned Zen first from Bokujii Dosho, afterwards from 1san, and from Rinzai and others. One day he said to a monk, "Have all living creatures the Buddha­ Nature or not?" The monk answered, "They have." Pointing to a picture of a dog painted on the wall, he asked, "Has this the Buddha nature or not?" The monk was nonplussed and could say nothing one way or the other.
5. Zen doctrine of no-mind
   • While Chang-hang of Le-ian was found sitting cross-legged facing the wall, Nan-chuan came up and stroked his back. Chaa-hsing said: 'Who are you?* ^ (which was Nan-chuans personal name}. How are you?* asked Chang-hsmg. To this, “As usual, was the reply. Said Ghang-hang: %hat a busy life you lead then!”

What's Occurring

Depending on how this goes I'll renew my request every few months until I get some kind of critical mass that I can use to write something up with an eye to putting in on Academia.edu.

Submitted February 14, 2023 at 07:03AM by ewk https://ift.tt/7xFDPai