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Ten Bulls
Poems and drawings in the Zen tradition / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ten Bulls or Ten Ox Herding Pictures (Chinese: shíniú 十牛 , Japanese: jūgyūzu 十牛図 , korean: sipwoo 십우) is a series of short poems and accompanying drawings used in the Zen tradition to describe the stages of a practitioner's progress toward awakening,[web 1] and their subsequent return to society to enact wisdom and compassion.
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