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# 虛堂和尚語錄 7.142

虛堂和尚語錄 7.142

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [7.142](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.7.142)

面壁風規久寂寥，兒孫旋旋立新條，不知斷臂緣何事，  
血灑空庭雪未消。

> The style of facing the wall has long been desolate;  
> Descendants step by step set up new rules.  
> Not knowing for what matter the arm was severed,  
> Blood splattered in the empty courtyard before the snow had melted.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000~en-mt.7.142) — English, machine translation

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