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Koan (27718 bytes)
3: ... ([[1686]]-[[1769]]), considered a reviver of the koan tradition in Japan).
5: ...entury]]) as its ancestor. Informally, the term ''koan'' sometimes refers to any experience that accompa...
7: ...d by teachers, monks, and students in training, ''koan'' can refer to a story selected from traditional ...
9: ...#references|1]]</sup>. Appropriate responses to a koan vary according to circumstances; there is no fixe...
11: ...n Zen all share many features in common, likewise koans play similar roles in each, although significant...

Koan (second) (883 bytes)
3: There is [[Koan (first)|another era]] using the same reading but ...

Koan (first) (1198 bytes)

Hacker koan (1868 bytes)
1: ...]]. Most do not fit the normal definition of ''[[koan]]''.
4: The following koan is attributed to [[Danny Hillis]].
24: Unlike most real koans, this koan has a possible concrete answer: just as the room ...

Koan (era) (400 bytes)
1: ...4344;&#23433;) lasted from 1278-1288, while the [[Koan (second)|second]] (&#24247;&#23433;) was an era o...

Emperor Koan of Japan (1078 bytes)
11: [[Category:Japanese emperors|Koan]]
13: [[de:Koan (Kaiser)]]
14: [[eo:Koan]]
15: [[fr:Empereur Koan]]
16: [[it:Koan imperatore del Giappone]]

Original face (605 bytes)
1: ...]] [[Buddhism]]. It originates in the following [[koan]]:
5: This koan is an invitation to try to get in touch with your...

The Gateless Gate (750 bytes)
1: ...umonkan'') is a collection of 48 [[Chan]] (Zen) [[koan]]s and commentaries compiled in the early [[13th ...
3: ...uch used in [[Rinzai School]] practice. 5 of the koans in the work are attributed to [[Zhaozhou]].
9: * [http://www.ibiblio.org/zen/cgi-bin/koan-index.pl The (incomplete) Gateless Gate at ibibli...
14: [[Category:Zen koan collections]]

Shoo (1073 bytes)
1: ...0;) was a [[Japanese era name]] after the first [[Koan (first)|K&#333;an]] and before [[Einin]] and span...
14: Preceded by:<br>[[Koan (first)|K&#333;an]]

Kenji (Japanese era) (924 bytes)
1: ...se era name]] after [[Bunei|Bun'ei]] and before [[Koan (first)|K&#333;an]] and spanned from [[1275]] to ...
20: Succeeded by:<br>[[Koan (first)|K&#333;an]]

101 Zen Stories (1383 bytes)
1: ...[[Paul Reps]] and [[Nyogen Senzaki]]. Well-known koans in the collection include ''A Cup of Tea'' (1), ...
19: .../www.ashidakim.com/zenkoans/zenindex.html 101 Zen Koans]
20: ...www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/ZenPages/KoanStudy.html Koan Studies Pages]
24: [[Category:Zen koan collections]]

Joji (814 bytes)
1: ...cho|Era of Northern and Southern Courts]] after [[Koan (second)|K&#333;an]] and before [[Oan|&#332;an]] ...
11: Preceded by:<br>[[Koan (second)|K&#333;an]]

Emperor Korei of Japan (1063 bytes)
5: ...ter" | Preceded by:<br>'''[[Emperor Koan of Japan|Koan]]'''

Emperor Kosho of Japan (1125 bytes)
9: ...er" | Succeeded by:<br>'''[[Emperor Koan of Japan|Koan]]'''

Shobogenzo (2419 bytes)
2: ... discussed herein. See Heine, <cite>Dogen and the Koan Tradition</cite>.)
14: * Steven Heine; <cite>Dogen and the Koan Tradition: A Tale of Two Shobogenzo Texts</cite>;...

John Crook (1786 bytes)
11: ...nal ''gongan'' ([[Japanese language|Japanese]]: ''koan'') and ''huatou'' (Japanese: ''[[wato]]'').

Blue Cliff Record (2199 bytes)
1: ...ollection of [[Zen]] [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] [[koan|koans]] originally compiled in [[China]] during the [[...
3: ...34;&#21063;&#12299;&mdash; a compilation of 100 [[koan]]s. Xuedou selected 82 of these from the ''Jingde...
5: ...nts engaged in too much intellectual discourse on koans, and then burned the wooden blocks used to print...
18: [[Category:Zen koan collections]]

Teaching stories (854 bytes)
5: ...udin]] or [[Attar|Farid al-Din Attar]], [[Zen]] [[koan]]s, and the [[parables]] of [[Jesus]].

Flaming Carrot Comics (915 bytes)
3: ...d, but sometimes thought provoking in a [[Zen]] [[Koan]] fashion.

Thomas Cleary (969 bytes)
5: ...lar, was the translation of the massive [[Zen]] [[koan]] collection, [[The Blue Cliff Record]]

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