| 1 | Origins of Chan in China and Bodhidharma 菩提達摩 (?–535) | |
| 2 | Daoxin’s 道信 (580–651) Chan and Pure Land thought David Chappell. “The Teachings of the Fourth Ch’an Patriarch Tao-hsin (580–651).” In Early Ch’an in China and Tibet. Eds. Whalen Lai and Lewis Lancaster. California: The Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley, 1983, pp. 89–129. | |
| 3 | The Sixth Patriarch Huineng 惠能 (638–713) and the Platform Sutra Heinrich Dumoulin. “The Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch.” In Zen Buddhism: A History, India and China. New York: World Wisdom, 2005, pp. 123–150. | |
| 4 | Mazu 馬祖 (709–788) Cheng Chien Bhiksu. Sun Face Buddha: The Teachings of Ma-tsu and the Hung-chou School of Ch’an. California: Jin Publishing Company, 1992, pp. 14–56. | |
| 5 | Huangbo 黃檗 (? –850) Dale Wright. “The Huang-po Literature.” In The Zen Canon. Ed. Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 107–135. | |
| 6 | Linji 臨濟 (?–867) Heinrich Dumoulin. “Lin-chi.” In Zen Buddhism: A History A History, India and China. New York: World Wisdom, 2005, pp. 179–208. | |
| 7 | Introduction to Post-Tang Chan Gregory, Peter. “The Vitality of Buddhism in the Sung.” In Buddhism in the Sung. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1999, pp. 1–20. | |
| 8 | The Chanyuan qingui (禪苑清規) Foulk, Griffith. “Chanyuan qinggui and Other ‘Rules of Purity’ in Chinese Buddhism.” In Zen Canon. Eds. Dale Wright and Steven Heine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 275–312. | |
| 9 | Bielefeldt, Carl. "Ch'ang-lu Tsung-tse's Tso-ch'an I and the 'Secret' of Zen Meditation." In Traditions of Meditation in Chinese Buddhism. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1986, pp. 129-61. | |
| 10 | Silent Illumination Meditation (默照禪) Schlütter, Morten. “Silent Illumination and the Caodong Tradition.” In How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute over Enlightenment in the Song-Dynasty China. Honolulu: University Hwai‘i Press, 2008, pp. 144–174. | |
| 11 | Foulk, Griffith. “The Form and Function of Koan Literature: A Historical Overview.” In The Koan, ed. by Steven Heine. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 26–45. | |
| 12 | Gongan Chan (公案禪) Yu, Chun-Fang. “Ta-hui Tsung-kao and Kung-an Cha’n.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 6, 1979: 211–235. | |
| 13 | Zhongfeng Mingben 中峰明本 (1263-1323) Yu, Chun-fang. “Chung-feng Ming-pen and Ch'an Buddhism in the Yuan.” In Yuan thought : Chinese thought and religion under the Mongols. Ed. Chan Hok-lam. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982, pp. 419–477. | |
| 14 | Chan Buddhism in the Ming dynasty: Yunqin Zhuhong 雲棲祩宏 (1532-1612) Jennifer Eichman: Chan | |
| 15 | None | |
| 16 | Hanshan Deqing 憨山德清 (1546-1623) Hsu, Sung-peng. A Buddhist Leader in Ming China: The Life and Thought of Hanshan Te-Ch’ing. Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1970, pp. 59-167. | |
| 17 | Jiang Wu, Enlightenment in Dispute: The Reinvention of Chan Buddhism in Seventeenth-Century China. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 3-17 and 287-289. | |
| 18 | Oral presentation | |