太孤危生 tài gū wéi shēng
          
              tài gū wéi shēng 
              
              set phrase 
              life is as perilous as the loneliest peak 
              Domain: Buddhism 佛教
              
                , Subdomain: Chan School 
              
              
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                Notes: Quote: from Koan 3 of 碧巖錄 “Blue Cliff Record” (retranslated from Ch’ung-hsien, K’o-ch’in, and Thomas F. Cleary trans. 1998, p. 25; T 2003, Scroll 1; Ding '太孤危生'; FGDB '太孤危生'; SH '太孤危生')