かんしけつ – Vocabulary details

かんしけつ

Noun

Derogatory

Buddhist

1. something worthless; something impure; something unimportant; (lit.) dried excrement in the shape of a stick

ref. to the Buddha in a famous koan; trad. translated as "dried shit stick" (now considered a mistranslation of the orig. Chinese)

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