金刚王宝剑 (金剛王寶劍) jīngāng wáng bǎojiàn
jīngāng wáng bǎojiàn
proper noun
Vajra King sword
Domain: Buddhism 佛教
, Subdomain: Chan School
Notes: Quote: in Chan literature, such as the No. 6 Koan in 碧巖錄 ”The Blue Cliff Record”; referring to a Chan master shouting at a student to cut them out of delusion; see 一喝如金剛王寶劍 'a shout like the Vajra King sword' (retranslated from Ch’ung-hsien, K’o-ch’in, and Thomas F. Cleary trans. 1998, p. 44; Ding '金剛王寶劍'; T 2003, Scroll 1)