禅Trần Nhân Tông

proverb

Fields and Altars

Trần Dynasty

Traditionally attributed

Text

When the rice fields are well kept, the altars take care of themselves. When the altars are well kept, the rice fields take care of themselves. The Way is the same farmer in different clothes.

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Attribution

Lineage: Trúc Lâm

By Trần Nhân Tông

Sources

  • contentCuong Tu Nguyen — medieval Vietnamese Buddhism scholarship

    Cuong Tu Nguyen

    pp. 85–123

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