釋迦譜 5.17

English (machine translation) 5.17

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5.17

He next showed the stupa of Ānanda and said to the king, 'This is the stupa of Ānanda; you should make offerings to it.' The king asked, 'What merit does he possess?' He answered, 'This person was the Buddha's attendant, foremost in hearing much, who compiled the Buddha's sūtras.' The king immediately gave one hundred billion ounces of rare gems to make offerings to his stupa. Then the ministers said to the king, 'Why is your giving and offering here superior to all the previous ones?' The king said to the ministers, 'Listen to what I say:

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釋迦譜 — 僧祐, Classical Chinese