心印

Mental impression, intuitive certainty; the mind is the Buddha-mind in all, which can seal or assure the truth; the term indicates the intuitive method of the [lang id =1028]禪 Ch' an (Zen) school, which was independent of the spoken or written word.

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心者佛心， 印者印可或印定之義。 禪宗不立文字， 不依言語， 只以心傳心， 以佛心印定眾生心， 證不二相。