長阿含經 5.p61

The Long Discourses (selected sūtras) 5.p61

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5.p61

“Among those priests, there was one who wasn’t happy quietly sitting in meditation and contemplating, so he went among the people and chanted [scripture] as his profession. He also declared of himself, ‘I am not a meditator!’ This was when worldly people claimed to be non-meditating priests. As a result of being among people, they were called priests among people. This was when the worldly priest caste came to be.

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長阿含經 — Classical Chinese