2. Accounts of Lin-chi's life are found in The Record of Lin-chi, The Transmission of the Lamp, The Five Lamps Meeting at the Source, and Finger Pointing at the Moon. The most reliable source is probably The Record of Lin-chi, since this was compiled by his follower(s). The definitive translation of this work certainly must be that by Ruth F. Sasaki, The Recorded Sayings of Ch'an Master Lin-chi Hui-chao of Chen Prefecture, (Kyoto, Japan: Institute of Zen Studies, 1975) and recently re-issued by Heian International, Inc., South San Francisco, Calif. Another version, The Zen Teachings of Rinzai, translated by Irmgard Schloegl (Berkeley, Calif.: Shambhala, 1976), is less satisfactory. The Lin-chi excerpts from The Transmission of the Lamp may be found in Chang Chung-yuan, Original Teachings of Ch'an Buddhism. Excerpts from The Five Lamps Meeting at the Source and Finger Pointing at the Moon are provided in Charles Luk, Ch'an and Zen Teaching, Second Series (Berkeley: Shambhala, 1971). Translations of his sermons, sayings, etc. together with commentary may also be found in Wu, Golden Age of Zen; Chou Hsiang-kuang, _Dhyana_ Buddhism in China; and Blyth, Zen and Zen Classics, Vol. 3. 3. R. H. Blyth is suspicious that Lin-chi's story was enhanced somewhat for dramatic purposes, claiming (Zen and Zen Classics, Vol. 3, p. 151), "As in the case of the Sixth Patriarch, [Lin-chi's] enlightenment is recounted 'dramatically,' that is to say minimizing his previous understanding of Zen in order to bring out the great change after enlightenment." 4. Sasaki, Recorded Sayings of Lin-chi, pp. 24-25. 5. Ibid., p. 25. 6. Chang Chung-yuan, Original Teachings of Ch'an Buddhism, pp. 117-18. 7. Wu, Golden Age of Zen, p. 194. 8. Chang Chung-yuan, Original Teachings of Ch'an Buddhism, p. 118. 9. Wu, Golden Age of Zen, p. 195. 10. Chang Chung-yuan, Original Teachings of Ch'an Buddhism, p. 119. 11. Sasaki, Recorded Sayings of Lin-chi, p. 43. 12. Ibid., p. 45. 13. Dumoulin, History of Zen Buddhism, p. 122. 14. Of Lin-chi's shout, R. H. Blyth says (Zen and Zen Classics, Vol. 3, p. 154): "[The shout] is a war-cry, but the fight is a sort of shadow- boxing. The universe shouts at us, we shout back. We shout at the universe, and the echo comes back in the same way. But the shouting and the echoing are continuous, and, spiritually speaking, simultaneous. Thus the [shout] is not an expression of anything; it has no (separable) meaning. It is pure energy, without cause or effect, rhyme or reason." 15. After Sasaki, Recorded Sayings of Lin-chi, p. 47. 16. See Wu, Golden Age of Zen, p. 201. 17. Chang Chung-yuan, Original Teachings of Ch'an Buddhism, pp. 121-22. 18. Sasaki, Recorded Sayings of Lin-chi, p. 4. 19. Ibid., p. 41. 20. Ibid., p. 48. 21. Ibid., p. 2. 22. Ibid., p. 70. 23. Ibid., p. 6. 24. Chang Chung-yuan, Original Teachings of Ch'an Buddhism, p. 98. 25. Wu, Golden Age of Zen, pp. 204-05.