禅Liễu Quán

proverb

Ancestral Question

Nguyễn Dynasty

Traditionally attributed

Text

What is the meaning of the patriarch coming from the west? I answer with a Vietnamese mouth and a Chinese sutra and an Indian silence — and the answer is none of those, and all of them.

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Attribution

Lineage: Lâm Tế

By Liễu Quán

Sources

  • contentCuong Tu Nguyen — medieval Vietnamese Buddhism scholarship

    Cuong Tu Nguyen

    pp. 124–149

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