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| | From W. Y. Evans-Wentz: Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines - The Gold Scales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | - From The Good-Wishes of the All-Good Buddha Samanta-Bhadra [Tiy vi]. |
 | | Innovations such as the koan [Chinese: gon ann], mondo [Chinese: wun da], the Zen dialogue, story, or poem, and the hitting of the disciple by the master, made Zen in its later Chinese period complicated and difficult to understand, especially as theoretical explanations and detailed instructions for the practices were avoided. |
 | | Note: It may be argued that Chinese Zen also has " maps" or instructions illustrating the stages to the attainment of Buddhahood, such "maps" are discoverable in the Ox-herding Pictures, in the Practice of the Four Distinctions of the Lin-Ji School, in the Five Positions of the King and Officers, and so on. |
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