King Today, Monk Tomorrow

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I sat on the throne for many years. The day I left it was no different from any other day — the morning bell rang, the rice cooked, the body bowed. Only the crown stopped being mistaken for the head.

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Attribution

• Attributed To
  Trần Nhân Tông

Lineage: Trúc Lâm

By Trần Nhân Tông

• Buddha in Each Ordinary Actpractice-instruction
• Knowing the Mind, Seeing the Natureproverb
• Living Carefree According to Conditionsproverb
• Three Mountains, One Houseproverb
• Buddha in the Houseproverb

Sources

• contentCuong Tu Nguyen — medieval Vietnamese Buddhism scholarship

  Cuong Tu Nguyen

  pp. 85–123

• contentLê Mạnh Thát — Vietnamese Buddhist history publications

  Lê Mạnh Thát