一斩一切斩 (一斬一切斬) yī zhǎn yīqiē zhǎn

yī zhǎn yīqiē zhǎn set phrase when one strand is cut all are cut
Domain: Buddhism 佛教 , Subdomain: Chan School
Notes: Quote: a phrase used in Chan literature, for example in No. 19 koan in 碧巖錄 ”The Blue Cliff Record”; refers to cutting off all illusions (retranslated from Ch’ung-hsien, K’o-ch’in, and Thomas F. Cleary trans. 1998, p. 109; FGDB '一斬一切斬'; T 2003, Scroll 2)