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Open the tool →放下屠刀,立地成佛 (fàng xià tú dāo , lì dì chéng fó) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “Even the most wicked person can achieve immediate redemption and become virtuous if they genuinely repent and abandon their evil ways”.
放下屠刀,立地成佛 is pronounced fàng xià tú dāo , lì dì chéng fó in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 放下屠刀,立地成佛 means “Drop the butcher's knife, and immediately become a Buddha”. It is used to mean “Even the most wicked person can achieve immediate redemption and become virtuous if they genuinely repent and abandon their evil ways”.
佛家劝人改恶从善的话。比喻作恶的人一旦认识了自己的罪行,决心改过,仍可以很快变成好人。