吹灭纸烛 (吹滅紙燭) chuī miè zhǐ zhú

chuī miè zhǐ zhú phrase blowing out a lamp
Domain: Buddhism 佛教 , Subdomain: Chan
Notes: Title of a koan in 景德傳燈錄 “Records of the Transmission of the Lamp” and also in Koan 4 of 碧巖錄 “Blue Cliff Record” (FGDB '吹滅紙燭'; T 2076, Scroll 15; Ch’ung-hsien, K’o-ch’in, and Thomas F. Cleary trans. 1998, p. 40; T 2003, Scroll 1)