Ji Gong's Funny Records: Traveling Around the World with Laughter and Zen

The eminent monk Jigong of Lingyin Temple in the Southern Song Dynasty (Zen Master Daoji), carrying a broken gourd on his back and shaking a broken cattail leaf fan in his hand, broke the barriers of time and space with an uninhibited posture of "wine and meat pass through the intestines, and the Buddha's heart remains in the heart", and embarked on a hilarious journey of Zen Buddhism spanning thousands of years and connecting the east and west. The book is laid out in a grand structure of 72 episodes. The domestic 36 episodes travel to Bianliang, Lin'an, Dunhuang and other places in the Song Dynasty, deconstructing worldly obsessions with absurd dramas; the 36 overseas episodes span across Europe, Asia and Africa, and awaken corruption with the city wall of wine in Samarkand. The Governor used a broken fan to reveal the hypocrisy of the aristocracy in London's foggy city. He also debated the "shape of the wind" with a painter under the Eiffel Tower in Paris, creating humorous sparks by colliding the Sixth Patriarch Huineng's "originally nothing" with Western existential philosophy...