倒退三千 dào tuì sān qiān

dào tuì sān qiān phrase fall back three thousand li
Domain: Buddhism 佛教 , Subdomain: Chan , Concept:
Notes: Quote: a Chan saying referring to retreat in battle, for example in Koan 2 of 碧巖錄 “Blue Cliff Record” (retranslated from Ch’ung-hsien, K’o-ch’in, and Thomas F. Cleary trans. 1998, p. 19; T 2003, Scroll 1; FGDB '倒退三千')