Steven Heine offers a compelling examination of the Mu Koan, widely considered to be the single best known and most widely circulated and transmitted koan record of the Zen school of Buddhism.

• Acknowledgments


• Chapter 1 More Cats Than Dogs? A Tale of Two Versions


• Chapter 2 Would a Dog Lick a Pot of Hot Oil? Reconstructing the Ur Version


• Chapter 3 Fightin' Like Cats and Dogs: Methodological Reflections on Deconstructing the Emphatic Mu


• Chapter 4 Cats and Cows Know That It Is: Textual and Historical Deconstruction of the Ur Version


• Chapter 5 Dogs May Chase, But Lions Tear Apart: Reconstructing the Dual Version of the''Moo Koan''


• Chapter 6 When Is a Dog Not Really a Dog? Or, Yes! We Have No Buddha-Nature


• Notes


• Sino-Japanese Glossary


• Bibliography


• Index

Professor of Religion and History and Director of the Institute for Asian Studies, Florida International University