活人剑 (活人劍) huó rén jiàn
huó rén jiàn
set phrase
life-giving sword
Domain: Buddhism 佛教
, Subdomain: Chan School
Notes: Quote: a phrase used in Chan literature, for example, in the No. 12 koan in 碧巖錄 ”The Blue Cliff Record”; the sword represents wisdom (retranslated from Ch’ung-hsien, K’o-ch’in, and Thomas F. Cleary trans. 1998, p. 76; Ding '活人劍'; FGDB '活人劍'; T 2003, Scroll 2)
Contained in
- 杀人刀活人剑(殺人刀活人劍) a sword for killing and a life-giving sword
Word is mentioned most frequently in
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- Scroll 7 Quotations from Chan Master Dahui Pujue 大慧普覺禪師語錄 — count: 3
- Scroll 5 Wan Song Laoren Ping Chang Tian Tong Jue Heshang Song Gu Congrong An Lu 萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 — count: 2 , has English translation
- Scroll 1 Quotations from Abbot Mi An 密菴和尚語錄 — count: 2
- Scroll 6 Wan Song Laoren Ping Chang Tian Tong Jue Heshang Song Gu Congrong An Lu 萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 — count: 1 , has English translation
- Scroll 8 Quotations from Chan Master Dahui Pujue 大慧普覺禪師語錄 — count: 1
- Scroll 1 Wumen's Gate 無門關 — count: 1 , has English translation
- Scroll 2 Wan Song Laoren Ping Chang Tian Tong Jue Heshang Song Gu Congrong An Lu 萬松老人評唱天童覺和尚頌古從容庵錄 — count: 1 , has English translation
- Scroll 12 Supplement to Records of the Transmission of the Lamp 續傳燈錄 — count: 1
- Scroll 2 Quotations from Chan Master Dahui Pujue 大慧普覺禪師語錄 — count: 1
- Scroll 16 Records of the Transmission of the Lamp 景德傳燈錄 — count: 1 , has English translation