12. Wan-ling is reported by Chang Chung-yuan to be the modern town of Hsuan-ch'eng in southern Anhwei province (Original Teachings of Ch'an Buddhism, p. 123). According to The Transmission of the Lamp the prime minister built a monastery and invited Huang-po to come lecture there, which the master did. The monastery was then named after a mountain where the master had once lived.

13. Ibid., p. 104.

14. Ibid.

15. Blofeld, Zen Teaching of Huang Po, p. 55.

16. Ibid., p. 130.

17. Ibid., pp. 81-82.

18. Ibid., p. 44

19. Chang Chung-yuan, Original Teachings of Ch'an Buddhism, p. 87.

20. Blofeld, Zen Teaching of Huang Po, p. 53.

21. Ibid., p. 39.