从门入者不是家珍 (從門入者不是家珍) cóng mén rù zhě bùshì jiāzhēn

cóng mén rù zhě bùshì jiāzhēn set phrase what comes in the door isn’t the family treasure
Domain: Buddhism 佛教 , Subdomain: Chan School
Notes: Quote: a phrase mentioned in the No. 5 Koan in 碧巖錄 ”The Blue Cliff Record” (retranslated from Ch’ung-hsien, K’o-ch’in, and Thomas F. Cleary trans. 1998, p. 37; FGDB '從門入者不是家珍'; T 2003, Scroll 1)