very calm and without worldly passions -- said of a monk
Laoseng ruding, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is l ǎ OS ē NgR ù D ì ng, which means that the monk sits in silence and makes his mind set in one place without distracting thoughts. It is called ruding. To describe a person sitting quietly. From Nie Hai Hua
The origin of Idioms
In the 20th chapter of Zeng Pu's the flowers of the evil sea in the Qing Dynasty: "when I look at it, I am a black and thin old man. I sit up in danger, as if I were an old monk."
Idiom usage
It is said that man Dong is a barren land, so he is called a hero. Pu Songling's strange stories from a lonely studio Huang Jiulang in Qing Dynasty
Chinese PinYin : lǎo sēng rù dìng
very calm and without worldly passions -- said of a monk
bid farewell to a departing friend. yáng guān sān dié
the weather in autumn is as hot as in summer. qiū xíng xià líng
would rather break than bend. nìng zhé bù wān