弘明集 7.11

English (machine translation) 7.11

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7.11

The treatise says: "[The Buddhists] are neither entirely the same nor entirely different: below, they abandon wives and children; above, they discard the ancestral sacrifices." The objection says: As for discarding sacrifices above and failing to abandon [attachments] below, this is assimilating difference into sameness on one's own part; it is not the fault of what is the same. Could one, seeing that a brindled ox is not fit for the ancestral temple, forever cast it aside from being an animal for the sacrificial pen?

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弘明集 — 僧祐, Classical Chinese