Explore: Mumonkan

The Gateless Barrier (Mandarin: 無門關 Wúménguān; Japanese: 無門関 Mumonkan), sometimes translated as The Gateless Gate, is a collection of 48 Chan (Zen) koans

Chán (Zen) Buddhist master who appears frequently in the koans of the Mumonkan and the Blue Cliff Record. Zhaozhou became ordained as a monk at an early

Xingxiu (1166–1246). The Gateless Gate (Chinese: 無門關 Wumenguan; Japanese: Mumonkan) is a collection of 48 kōan and commentaries published in 1228 by Chinese

separate texts on nondual practice: 101 Zen Stories The Gateless Gate (Mumonkan) Ten Bulls Centering (Vigyan Bhairav Tantra) 101 Zen Stories is a 1919

collection of Zen kōan, uses the word wu or mu in its title (Wumenguan or Mumonkan 無門關) and first kōan case ("Zhao Zhou's Dog" 趙州狗子). Chinese Chan calls the

collection The Gateless Barrier (Mandarin: 無門關 Wúménguān; Japanese: 無門関 Mumonkan). Wumen was born in Hangzhou. His first master was Gong Heshang. Wumen

master Hogen knew the Avatamsaka Sutra well, and koan twenty-six in the Mumonkan, in which Hogen is involved, comes out of the teaching of that sutra. Other

was also in The Gateless Gate (Mandarin: 無門關 Wúménguān; Japanese: 無門関 Mumonkan), a 13th-century collection of 48 kōans compiled by the Chinese monk Wumen

moment, what is your original face? This question appears in case 23 of the Mumonkan: CASE 23. ENO'S GOOD AND EVIL Eno, the sixth patriarch, was pursued by

up a flower and smiling"). It appears as Case 6 in the Wúménguān (Jap. Mumonkan) collection of Zen koans. In the story, the Buddha gives a wordless sermon