佛祖統紀 33.8

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33.8

Bathing the Buddha: The eighth day of the fourth month is the Buddha's birthday. People commemorate the Buddha and bathe the image of the Buddha (from the *Mahācātusparṣad-sūtra*). When bathing the image, one recites the verse: 'I now bathe all the Tathāgatas, / An assemblage of merit adorned with pure wisdom; / May living beings of the five defilements be freed from defilement, / And vow to realize the Tathāgata's pure Dharma-body' (from the *Bathing the Buddha Sūtra*).

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佛祖統紀 — 志磐, Classical Chinese