开山祖师 [
kāi shān zǔ shī]
the founder of a religious sect or a school of thought
originator
father
- 川端康成是日本文学现代派的开山祖师之一。
Kawabata is one of the pioneers of modernism in Japanese literature. - 依据人类壆傢的说法,竖立行走的人的开山祖师面部轮廓与黑猩猩类似,额头后倾,眉毛凸起。
According to anthropologists, the earliest ancestors of humans that stood upright resembled chimpanzees facially, with sloping foreheads and protruding brows. - 美国万佛圣城开山祖师宣公上人就认为﹕法界就是一所大学校,无人不是老师,无处不是学问。
The Venerable Master Hua, founder of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, regarded the Dharma Realm as a huge school in which everyone is a teacher and knowledge is everywhere.