Wiki Wednesday: New Page requested... Research!

Links for wiki warriors and scholars:

1. Recent Revisions: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/revisions/
2. Full List: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/revisions/

In general, as far as I know, the three biggest websites for Zen scholarship on the internet are Terebess, thezensite, and the r/zen wiki, as horrifying as that sounds.

With that in mind, let's take a deep(er) dive into the wiki, hopefully sparking a little scholarship somewhere!

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This week: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/research

I threw some stuff on that page, but there are better researchers here who can make suggestions... so please do!

Why this page?

Questions came up about a particular passage:

Master Lingshu was asked by a monk, "What is the way of your house?" He said, "A thousand year field, eight hundred owners." The monk asked, "What is a thousand year field with eight hundred owners?" He said, "A ramshackle house no one repairs."

Dahui said, "Sad man, don't talk to sad people."

I said I would start digging into it:

For example I don't know if the translation is reliable and I don't know if Dahui is alluding to some historically sad man?

I like to suspend interpretation when I have so many questions. If I was working on this I would start by searching for sad and then I would search for lingshi and then I would search for the term ramshackle house and then search for the word repairs and see if this comes up anywhere else in Indiana form.

They love to cite idioms so I'd check those too.

So I quickly tried to outline the way to find the answers.

History of the page

Brand new page! No history! But there is a long history of people contributing all kinds of research, some of it really astonishing, so better late than never on me putting this together. It's getting to the point where I'm having trouble keeping track of all the resources available on the internet. That's astonishing if you think about what even graduate students had available twenty years ago. That's right... 2002.

Related pages

1. www.reddit.com//r/zen/wiki/scholarship
2. www.reddit.com//r/zen/wiki/getstarted
   
   • This began life as a reading guide, but it's gotten out of hand
3. www.reddit.com/r/zen/wiki/names is also useful...
   • you can also get the name from terebess in chinese, plug it into google translate, and hear it pronounced correctly! Not like when I do it in a podcast!

Submitted June 02, 2022 at 10:42AM by ewk https://ift.tt/Ih0vWZs