白马入芦花 (白馬入蘆花) bái mǎ rù lú huā
bái mǎ rù lú huā
set phrase
a white horse enters white flowers
Domain: Buddhism 佛教
, Subdomain: Chan School
Notes: Quote: a phrase used in Chan literature, for example, in the No. 12 koan in 碧巖錄 ”The Blue Cliff Record”; refers to transcending intellectual discrimination (retranslated from Ch’ung-hsien, K’o-ch’in, and Thomas F. Cleary trans. 1998, p. 82; FGDB '白馬入蘆花'; T 2003, Scroll 2)