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Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record clerkship reassured and enchanted a numberThis book provides an in depth textual and literary analysis of the Blue Cliff Record (Chinese Biyanlu, Japanese Hekiganroku), a seminal Chan Zen Buddhist collection of commentaries on one hundred gongan koan cases, considered in light of historical, cultural, and intellectual trends from the Song dynasty (960 1279). Compiled by the disciples of Yuanwu Keqin in 1128, the Blue Cliff Record is considered a classic of East Asian literature for its