Sentences with phrase «famous koan»

«An enemy is as good as a Buddha — goes a famous koan.

Not exact matches

His peripatetic curatorial counterpart, Hans Ulrich Obrist, posts gnomic koans by famous artists.
The problem of «identity,» as we would style it today, is the sort of thing that zen masters make their students struggle with, as in the famous dog koan set out above, which tackles the matter elliptically.
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