[Buddha-l] Pure Conversation vs koan

[Wong Weng Fai]

Someone pointed this out to me... there is great similarities between 
koans and the "Wei Jin Qing Tan" ("Pure Conversations of the Wei-Jin 
Dynasty Period") - 300 to 500 AD - which also includes the Liang Dynasty 
(when Bodhidharma is supposed to have come to China). The Pure 
Conversations were dialogues about life and the universe and greatly 
influenced by the heightened interested in mysticism during this period. 
(For those who reads Chinese: 
http://www.guoxue.com/lwtj/content/liuqiang_wjqt.htm) In fact at some 
point, it earned the accusation "Qing Tan Wu Guo" ("Pure Conversations 
misguide the country").

Has there been any study on this?

Just curious...

W.F. Wong