野狐精 yěhú jīng

yěhú jīng set phrase a fox spirit
Domain: Buddhism 佛教 , Subdomain: Chan School
Notes: Quote: a phrase used in Chan literature, for example, in the No. 15 koan in 碧巖錄 ”The Blue Cliff Record”; refers to people who cheat others by claiming something imaginary (retranslated from Ch’ung-hsien, K’o-ch’in, and Thomas F. Cleary trans. 1998, p. 91; Ding '野狐精'; FGDB '野狐精'; T 2003, Scroll 2)