return empty-handed from treasure mountain -- unable to benefit from a visit to a great master(bǎo shān kōng huí)

return empty-handed from treasure mountain -- unable to benefit from a visit to a great master

Bao Shan Kong Hui, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ǎ OSH ā NK ō nghu í, which means to go into the mountains full of treasures and come out empty handed. According to the conditions, there should be rich harvest, but nothing. It comes from Mahayana Bensheng Xindi guanjing - lishipin.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: empty into Baoshan Hui

Idiom usage

There are two slogans in foreign countries, Liu Hao: "if you don't know the rhyme of your tongue, if you go back to Baoshan empty handed." The 28th chapter of Jing Hua Yuan by Li Ruzhen in Qing Dynasty

The origin of Idioms

"Mahayana's view of the mind and the earth · leaving the world" says: "if a man has no hands, though he reaches Baoshan, he will get nothing."

Chinese PinYin : bǎo shān kōng huí