白马入芦花 (白馬入蘆花) bái mǎ rù lú huā

bái mǎ rù lú huā set phrase a white horse enters white flowers
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”; refers to transcending intellectual discrimination (retranslated from Ch’ung-hsien, K’o-ch’in, and Thomas F. Cleary trans. 1998, p. 82; FGDB '白馬入蘆花'; T 2003, Scroll 2)

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

  • Scroll 17 Supplement to Records of the Transmission of the Lamp 續傳燈錄 — count: 1
  • Scroll 2 The Blue Cliff Record (Biyanlu) 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 — count: 1 , has English translation