The Lion Among Students

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When Haklenayaśas first saw Siṃha Bhikṣu among a group of young men, he said to a companion: 'That young man carries the lion's roar. He does not yet know it.' The companion said: 'How can you tell?' Haklenayaśas said: 'The same way the lion knows the lion—not by looking, but by something older than looking.'

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Haklena

Lineage: Indian Patriarchs

By Haklena

• Where the Cranes Gatherdialogue

From Jingde Chuandenglu

• On Gradual Cultivation
• Watch the Mind
• On Sudden Enlightenment
• The Debate at Huatai
• Before Thinking Arises
• The One Who Has No Rank
• The Arrow on High
• Meeting the Poet Li Ji
• Just This Is It
• Cold Ashes, Dead Tree

Sources

• contentZen Editorial Overlay - Originals Curation

  Zen project editorial

  Jingde Chuandenglu, Vol. 1, Haklena chapter

  Jingde Chuandenglu: The Lion Among Students