Wild Fox Koan
The wild fox kōan, also known as "Pai-chang 's fox" and "Hyakujō and a Fox," is an influential kōan story in the Zen tradition dating back as early as 1036, when it appeared in the Chinese biographical history T'ien-sheng kuang-teng lu. It was also in The Gateless Gate (Japanese: Mumonkan (無門関?), a 13th century collection of 48 kōans compiled by the Chinese monk Wumen, as case 2.
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