The purpose of this article is to explore the concept metaphor of “war” in Buddhist literature, to analyze the corpus from three levels and four stages, and to find out how to observe, analyze, and interpret the metaphor patterns in the Buddhist corpus. In the first stage, from the vocabulary level, the words of war action are used as keywords, and the Chinese Buddhist scripture of CBETA is used as the resource of corpus to observe the mapping of war words. The second stage continues to analyze the conceptual mapping model from the vocabulary level, based on the individual attributes, properties, and functions of the vocabulary. The third stage analyzes the similarities and differences between war narratives and war metaphors at the discourse level, explaining the role of the metaphor framework, which is to construct a new perspective on the life issue of the Buddha Dharma and a change of ideas from old ones to new ones. The final fourth stage observes how metaphors are implemented on the level of action by taking the example of the Master Hui Shan during the Ming-Qing Dynasties. In addition tothe art of war metaphors implied in Master Hui Shan book Zenmen Exercise Theory, it is also documented from related literature that inferential metaphors not only exist in vocabulary and text, but are likely to be metaphors of action, reflecting individual actions.
