Verse on Receiving Transmission

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For thirty years the path has been this single phrase: Who is the one who recites the Buddha's name? This morning the phrase asked itself — and the one who recites disappeared. From now on, north, south, east, west: each direction is the gate.

tr. Traditional verse rendering from Vietnamese Thiền records

license: public_domain

Attribution

• Attributed To
  Liễu Quán

Lineage: Lâm Tế

By Liễu Quán

• One Breathproverb
• When the Mountain Becomes the Masterproverb
• Twelve Disciples in Twelve Provincesproverb
• Ancestral Questionproverb
• Light from a Bowl of Riceproverb

Sources

• contentCuong Tu Nguyen — medieval Vietnamese Buddhism scholarship

  Cuong Tu Nguyen

  Traditional transmission verse attributed to Liễu Quán; after Vietnamese Buddhist records of the Liễu Quán lineage

  Recorded Sayings of Liễu Quán: Verse on Receiving Transmission