Early Literary History of "mind-monkeys"
This section summarizes Chinese and Japanese developments of xinyuan or shin'en 心猿 "mind-monkey" and yima or iba 意馬 "idea-horse" collocations and their synonyms. The earliest known textual usages are presented chronologically.
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