Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「舍身求法」, with details below.
Introducing the idiom 「舍身求法」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
Sacrifice one’s body: give up one’s body; seek the Dharma: seek the Dharma. Originally it referred to Buddhists who were willing to sacrifice themselves to travel far to seek Buddhist scriptures. Later it is used to describe the willingness to sacrifice oneself in pursuit of truth.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shě shēn qiú fǎ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
se3 san1 kau4 faat3
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