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# 景德傳燈錄 12.72

景德傳燈錄 12.72

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [12.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.12.72)

寶壽和尚（第二世住）有僧問。如何是祖。師曰。面黑眼睛白。問蹋倒化城時如何。師曰。死漢不斬。僧曰斬。師乃打。

> Upādhyāya Baoshou (second-generation abbot). A monk asked, "What is the Patriarch?" The Master said, "Black face, white pupils." The monk asked, "How is it when one tramples down the conjured city?" The Master said, "A dead fellow is not beheaded." The monk said, "Behead him!" The Master struck him.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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