smear buddha 's head with dung

smear buddha 's head with dung

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is f ó t ó uzhu ó f è n, which means that the Buddha's nature is charitable, and it doesn't matter if he puts dung on his head. After many metaphors of bad things on top of good things, dirty good things. From the biography of lanterns in Jingde.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] Buddha writing dung, Dogtail writing mink and [antonym] worshipping God, icing on the cake, sending charcoal in the snow

The origin of Idioms

"When Cui Xianggong came to the temple, he saw birds putting dung on the Buddha's head. He asked his teacher," do birds have Buddha's nature? " The teacher said, "yes." Cui said, "why put dung on Buddha's head?" The teacher said, "why didn't Yi put it on the head of the kite?"

Idiom usage

Today's people punctuate ancient books and ancient books die because they order things in a disorderly way. These are the three major disasters of ancient books. Lu Xun's essays on qijieting

Idiom story

During the period of emperor Mu Zong of Tang Dynasty, Cui Qun visited the East Temple in Hunan Province. When he saw the bird pooping on the head of the Buddha, he told the abbot that the bird had no Buddha nature and was disrespectful to the Buddha. The abbot said that the bird had Buddha nature. They chose to poop on the head of the Buddha because of the Buddha's charity, tolerance of all living beings and never care about foreign things. The bird also understood this.