Sources
Every quotation on this site is attributable: Blyth by work, edition, year, and printed page; every Chinese line by its CBETA line anchor; every attested band by its dictionary entry. This page is the full bibliography and the credits in one.
Blyth's Mumonkan, as cited
Editions matter: pagination differs across printings, so every case pins the printed page, fixed from running heads against the paginated scan. The in-copyright work is quoted only in minimal fair-use spans (see Method).
- Zen and Zen Classics, Volume 4: Mumonkan R. H. Blyth, Hokuseido Press, Tokyo, 1966. The complete translation and commentary audited here. Printed pages are pinned from the running heads, fixed against the paginated scan (blyth-mumonkan-terebess-alt). Quoted only in minimal fair-use spans. in copyright
- The Zen and Zen Classics series (vols. 1–5) and the wider Blyth corpus Games Zen Masters Play, Zen in English Literature and Oriental Classics, and the Poetry and Zen material provide the eight-work base for the Japanization sweep; the Mumonkan volume is the one audited for construal here. Oeuvre findings, when they land, fold in as sibling coverage files. in copyright
The canonical text & the dictionary
The canonical source is the Chinese of the Mumonkan as published by CBETA (the Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association): 禪宗無門關, Taishō volume 48, text T48n2005. Every Chinese span on this site is transcribed from that text, never retyped: the build strips the TEI markup to a plain-text corpus and checks each authored ideograph run against it, so a mistyped glyph fails the build. The attested bands are the verbatim output of the evidence-first Zen dictionary, a ReadZen project that indexes named-master citations across the CBETA corpus; every case links back to its entry.
- CBETA T48n2005 (禪宗無門關) The canonical Mumonkan. Each case links into the ReadZen reader at its exact CBETA line, where the passage can be read in Chinese and, where available, English.
- The evidence-first Zen dictionary Browse it at readzen.pages.dev/#/dict: built from named-master citations, it is this site's band authority and the standard it holds itself to. The fourteen entries requested to close this audit's candidates were built from the frozen corpus and installed 2026-07-21.
- The Japanization dataset The side-view reads exhaustive/japanization.json directly: the mapping of Japanese readings to their Chinese originals across Blyth's eight works, with per-work counts. Recorded, never counted in the audit's totals.
CBETA license & credit
CBETA texts are used under the CBETA license, which permits free use for non-commercial and academic purposes with attribution. Source text © CBETA; markup and corpus build © the CBETA and ReadZen projects. Each case links into the ReadZen reader at its CBETA locus, so the passage can be opened and verified in full context. Blyth's translation is the property of its publisher and is reproduced here in minimal spans for the purpose of criticism and comparison.