Yīduàn (義端) was a 12th-century Chinese monk of the Chan (禪) school of Buddhism. Yiduan is notable for the saying "Language is a sham, silence a lie, but beyond language and silence a road goes by" (語是謗, 寂是誑, 語寂向上有路在). * v * t * e * v * t * e * v * t * e