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# 宗鏡錄 97.28

宗鏡錄 97.28

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [97.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.97.28)

第十九祖鳩摩羅多尊者傳法偈云。性上本無生。為對求人說。於法既無得。何懷決不決。

> The Dharma-transmission verse of the nineteenth patriarch, the venerable Kumāralāta, says:  
> “In nature there is fundamentally no birth;  
> It is spoken for the sake of those who seek.  
> Since regarding dharmas there is nothing attained,  
> Why cherish certainty or uncertainty?”  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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