金刚王宝剑 (金剛王寶劍) jīngāng wáng bǎojiàn
jīngāng wáng bǎojiàn
proper noun
Vajra King sword
Domain: Buddhism 佛教
, Subdomain: Chan School
, Concept:
Notes: Quote: in Chan literature, such as the No. 6 Koan in 碧巖錄 ”The Blue Cliff Record”; referring to a Chan master shouting at a student to cut them out of delusion; see 一喝如金剛王寶劍 'a shout like the Vajra King sword' (retranslated from Ch’ung-hsien, K’o-ch’in, and Thomas F. Cleary trans. 1998, p. 44; Ding '金剛王寶劍'; T 2003, Scroll 1)
Contained in
- 一喝如金刚王宝剑(一喝如金剛王寶劍) a shout like the Vajra King sword
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- Introduction 前言 Lectures on the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch 《六祖壇經講話》 — count: 1