[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [妙法蓮華經玄贊](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1723) › 10.71 # 妙法蓮華經玄贊 10.71 妙法蓮華經玄贊 10.71 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [10.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1723.10.71) 贊曰：舌。長行有三：一德量，二根用，三舌具用。此初二也。此無境量，何故不同鼻根能知三千？既不能知，云何功德成千二百？舌根應亦得甞三千界味，但以頌文說舌具用聲遍大千，故不說甞味。香離質而可有，味離質而便無，故不說得三千界味。經中亦說佛有鼻、舌通過於眼、耳。 > The Commentary says: The tongue. The prose text has three parts: first, the measure of virtues; second, the functioning of the faculty; third, the functioning of the tongue as an instrument. Here are the first two. Here there is no measure of the sphere of objects; why is it not like the faculty of the nose, which is able to know the three thousand \[worlds\]? Since it cannot know \[them\], how is its virtue accomplished as twelve hundred? The tongue faculty should also be able to taste the flavors of the three-thousand-world realm; however, because the verse text states that the sound of the tongue as an instrument pervades the great thousand \[worlds\], it does not speak of tasting flavors. Scent can exist apart from physical substance, whereas flavor does not exist apart from physical substance; therefore, it does not speak of obtaining the flavors of the three-thousand-world realm. The sūtras also state that the Buddha has nose and tongue whose penetration surpasses eye and ear. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 10.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1723.10.70) - [Next: 10.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1723.10.72) - [Up: 10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1723.10) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1723~en-mt.10.71) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1723.10.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1723.10.71) · Pramāṇa