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Wikipedia's article on the koan, a case used in Zen training, consulted 2026-08-12.
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Reliability Tier3
Reliability tier 3: a Wikipedia entry, written and revised by unnamed volunteer editors, suited to an uncontested, easily checked point about a Zen Buddhist teaching device rather than a disputed claim. NotesWikipedia's article on the koan, consulted 2026-08-12. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication, useful here for the named collections used in formal training and for Dahui Zonggao's twelfth century kanhua chan refinement of the method.
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Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dan
Source Typereference
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- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Practices, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
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