骑牛觅牛 (騎牛覓牛) qí niú mì niú

qí niú mì niú phrase riding an ox searching for an ox
Domain: Buddhism 佛教 , Subdomain: Chan
Notes: Quote: an metaphor about searching for something that you already have, from koan 7 of 碧巖錄 “Blue Cliff Record” (retranslated from Ch’ung-hsien, K’o-ch’in, and Thomas F. Cleary trans. 1998, p. 48; T 2003, Scroll 1; FGDB '騎牛覓牛')

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Truncated for common words

• Scroll 9 Records of the Transmission of the Lamp 景德傳燈錄 — count: 1 , has English translation
• Scroll 6 Outline Summary of the Treatise on the Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna 大乘起信論裂網疏 — count: 1
• Scroll 4 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 1 The Blue Cliff Record (Biyanlu) 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 — count: 1 , has English translation
• Scroll 1 Quotations from Chan Master Qingjing Wenyi of Jinling 金陵清涼院文益禪師語錄 — count: 1

Collocations

• 大似骑牛觅牛 (大似騎牛覓牛) 大似騎牛覓牛矣 — Outline Summary of the Treatise on the Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna 大乘起信論裂網疏, Scroll 6 — count: 4