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# 宗鏡錄 2.12

English (machine translation) 2.12

- **Language:** English

### [2.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016~en-mt.2.12)

Question: The expedient teaching gates of all buddhas all arise based on the faculties of sentient beings. Because faculties and natures are unequal, dharmas are as numerous as dust and sand: the gates of the thirty-seven factors of awakening, and the path of practice of the fifty-two stages. Why establish only the one mind as the Mirror of the Source?

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- [宗鏡錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.2.12) — Classical Chinese

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