Three beasts crossing the river(sān shòu dù hé)

Three beasts crossing the river

Three beasts crossing the river, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is s ā NSH ò UD ù h é, which means that Buddhism uses rabbits, horses and elephants to cross the river into the water. It refers to the high and low of the small, middle and large three times, and later refers to practice. It comes from the three kinds of Bodhi in the Sutra of the Dharma Sutra.

The origin of Idioms

"Three kinds of Bodhi products" in the Buddhist Scripture of youposai: "a good man is like crossing the Ganges River with three beasts: rabbit, horse and Xiang. The rabbit does not reach the bottom, but floats by; the horse does or does not reach the bottom; the elephant does. The water of Ganges River is the river of twelve causes. When one hears the sound, he is like a rabbit; when one hears the fate, he is like a horse; when one comes to the Tathagata, he is like a fragrant elephant, so the Tathagata is named Buddha. "

Idiom usage

Examples

"In the same place as the Buddha, we can hear and say the method blindly, but the evidence is shallow and deep. For example, the rabbit and the horse are like three beasts crossing the river, the rabbit is floating, the horse is half and half, and the elephant is completely intercepting the river. " ——Song Dynasty. Shi Daoyuan's biography of lanterns in Jingde

Chinese PinYin : sān shòu dù hé