呵佛骂祖 (呵佛罵祖) hē fó mà zǔ
hē fó mà zǔ
set phrase
scold the Buddhas and curse the patriarchs
Domain: Buddhism 佛教
, Subdomain: Chan School
Notes: Quote: a phrase mentioned in the No. 4 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. 29; FGDB '呵佛罵祖'; T 2003, Scroll 1)