横拈 (橫拈) héngnián

héngnián phrase to handle sideways; to give unrestrained comments
Domain: Buddhism 佛教 , Subdomain: Chan , Concept:
Notes: Refers to a Chan commenting style, for example in Koan 2 of 碧巖錄 “Blue Cliff Record” (Ch’ung-hsien, K’o-ch’in, and Thomas F. Cleary trans. 1998, p. 21; T 2003, Scroll 1; FGDB '橫拈')