山形拄杖 shān xíng zhǔzhàng

shān xíng zhǔzhàng set phrase a rough cut staff
Domain: Buddhism 佛教 , Subdomain: Chan School
Notes: Quote: a phrase used in Chan literature, for example in No. 18 koan in 碧巖錄 ”The Blue Cliff Record”; refers to a pagoda cut from a single piece of stone, i.e. without seams (retranslated from Ch’ung-hsien, K’o-ch’in, and Thomas F. Cleary trans. 1998, p. 103; FGDB '山形拄杖'; T 2003, Scroll 2)