廣弘明集 14.14

14.14

"Fu said: 'The Buddha is the vapor of strange specters, and monasteries are shrines of licentious depravity.' These are unreflective words. Specters merely cause calamity; how could they propagate the transformation of the ten virtuous deeds? Demons must rely on evil; how could they establish the path of the eightfold correctness? Specters still fear dogs, and demons also fear cats; how could they subdue the haughty mind of Śakra or crush the immense power of deva-māras? Moreover, take companions such as Fotudeng and Kumārajīva, or peers such as Dao'an and Huiyuan: men of high virtue and great renown, neither mad nor intoxicated. How could they abandon love, renounce worldly glory, and seek the evil path of specters and demons, or toil their bodies and endure bitter austerities to serve the demonic spirits of sprites? Furthermore, from the Eastern Han down to our own [dynasty]—"