Hakuin Ekaku
Letters
Correspondence
Letters
白隠書簡 (cartas)
A selection of his correspondence showing the master in daily life: advice to disciples, requests for temple funds, answers to lay people and lords. Waddell translated it as Beating the Cloth Drum.
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Authorship note
Surviving correspondence with monks, lay people and feudal lords.
Editions and translations
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English
Hakuin Ekaku
Beating the Cloth Drum: Letters of Zen Master Hakuin
The Conscious LibraryBeating the Cloth Drum: Letters of Zen Master Hakuin
Shambhala, 2012
Translation: Norman Waddell
ISBN 1590309480
Other works by Hakuin Ekaku
- The Embossed Tea Kettle (Orategama) · 1749
- Idle Talk on a Night Boat (Yasenkanna) · 1757
- Wild Ivy (Itsumadegusa) · 1766
- Song in Praise of Zazen (Zazen wasan)
- The Sound of One Hand (Sekishu onjō) · 1753
- Introductory Talks on the Record of Sokkō (Sokkōroku kaien-fusetsu) · 1743
- Poison Blossoms from a Thicket of Thorn (Keisō dokuzui) · 1758
- Words from the Land of Kaian (Kaiankokugo) · 1750
- Poison Words on the Heart Sūtra (Dokugo shingyō)
- An Icchantika's Notes on the Poems of Hanshan · 1746
- Treasure Left to the Cold Forest (Kanrin ihō)
- Reflections Left by the Precious Mirror (Hōkan ishō)
- Spear Flower (Yabukōji) · 1753
- Snake Strawberries (Hebiichigo) · 1754
- Thistle (Oniazami) · 1751
- Goosegrass (Yaemugura) · 1759
- Sashimogusa
- Miraculous Tales of the Ten-Phrase Kannon Sūtra
- Kana Sermons on Causes and Conditions
- Kana Goosegrass (Kanamugura)
- Tales of Spurring On for Beginners
- Record of the Filial Piety of Takatsuka's Fourth Daughter
- The Tale of Heishirō of Ihara and Other Tales
- Record of the Precious Mirror Cave
- Grinding songs, lullabies, weeding songs and riddles
- Rōhatsu Exhortations
- Secret Notes on the Blue Cliff Record · 1916
- Painting and calligraphy · 1719
- Collected works · 1934
- Hakuin on Kensho (Albert Low) · 2006
Sources
- Waddell, Norman (trad.). Beating the Cloth Drum: Letters of Zen Master Hakuin. Boston: Shambhala, 2012. ISBN 1590309480.
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