拖泥带水 (拖泥帶水) tuō ní dài shuǐ
tuō ní dài shuǐ
set phrase
trailing mud and saoked with water
Domain: Buddhism 佛教
, Subdomain: Chan School
Notes: Quote: a phrase from the No. 2 Koan in 碧巖錄 ”The Blue Cliff Record”; refers to unhelpful remarks (retranslated from Ch’ung-hsien, K’o-ch’in, and Thomas F. Cleary trans. 1998, p. 19; Ding '拖泥帶水'; Guoyu '拖泥帶水'; SH '拖泥帶水'; T 2003, Scroll 1)
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