Yiduan Explained

Yīduàn
Birth Place:China
Nationality:Chinese
Religion:Buddhism
School:Ch'an
Ch'an master

Yīduàn (義端) was a 12th-century Chinese monk of the Chan (禪) school of Buddhism.

Yiduan is notable for the saying "Language is a sham, silence a lie, but beyond language and silence a road goes by" (語是謗, 寂是誑, 語寂向上有路在).[1]

Notes and References

  1. https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=gb&chapter=101633 五燈會元: 卷第四