CONTENTS

Translator’s Introduction

THE ESSENTIAL TEACHINGS OF ZEN MASTER HAKUIN

Foreword by Genshoku

1. Licking Up Hsi-keng’s Fox Slobber

2. The Poisonous Leavings of Past Masters

3. Authentic Zen

4. The Difficulty of Repaying the Debt to the Buddhas and the Patriarchs

5. The True and Untransmittable Dharma

Appendix 1: Names of Zen Masters and Monks

Appendix 2: List of Texts

Notes

Index of Proper Nouns

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