return empty-handed from treasure mountain -- unable to benefit from a visit to a great master
Bao Shan Kong Hui, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ǎ OSH ā NK ō nghu í, which means to go into the mountains full of treasures and come out empty handed. According to the conditions, there should be rich harvest, but nothing. It comes from Mahayana Bensheng Xindi guanjing - lishipin.
Analysis of Idioms
Synonym: empty into Baoshan Hui
Idiom usage
There are two slogans in foreign countries, Liu Hao: "if you don't know the rhyme of your tongue, if you go back to Baoshan empty handed." The 28th chapter of Jing Hua Yuan by Li Ruzhen in Qing Dynasty
The origin of Idioms
"Mahayana's view of the mind and the earth · leaving the world" says: "if a man has no hands, though he reaches Baoshan, he will get nothing."
return empty-handed from treasure mountain -- unable to benefit from a visit to a great master
Go into the mountains and cross the sea - tóu shān cuàn hǎi
handle a crisis without difficulty - fù xiǎn rú yí
no one picks up what 's left by the wayside - dào bù jǔ yí
so poor as to have no room to stick an awl on - pín wú zhì zhuī