草裏汉 (草裏漢) cǎolǐhàn

cǎolǐhàn set phrase a person in the weeds
Domain: Buddhism 佛教 , Subdomain: Chan School
Notes: Quote: a phrase used in Chan literature, for example, in the No. 16 koan in 碧巖錄 ”The Blue Cliff Record”; refers to being lost (retranslated from Ch’ung-hsien, K’o-ch’in, and Thomas F. Cleary trans. 1998, p. 94; Ding '草裏漢'; FGDB '草裏漢'; T 2003, Scroll 2)