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Yiduan

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Yīduàn
TitleCh'an master
Personal
Born
ReligionBuddhism
NationalityChinese
SchoolCh'an

Yīduàn( nghĩa đoan ) was a 12th-centuryChinesemonk of theChan( thiền ) school ofBuddhism.

Yiduan is notable for the saying "Language is a sham, silence a lie, but beyond language and silence a road goes by" ( ngữ thị báng, tịch thị cuống, ngữ tịch hướng thượng hữu lộ tại ).[1]

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