道宣律師感通錄 1.37

1.37

He replied: "If Māra commits evil, the Four Heavenly Kings and Śakra will not follow him. If the lower two heavens practice wholesome dharmas, Māra and Māra's daughters can do nothing against them. The monks of this land are superior: they have no dual view regarding the Mahāyāna and Hīnayāna, and revere them both. In the Western lands it is not so: when followers of the Hīnayāna obtain Mahāyāna sūtras, they throw them into the fire; junior monks are sold to the northern barbarians, and the elderly have their life-faculty severed, which is unspeakable. Now at the Mahābodhi Temple, the abbot is fierce and forceful; he possesses eighty thousand elephants, and tens of millions of monastic households. The king cannot conscript them. Beneath the circumambulated stūpa, there is gold and silk every day, which he collects and takes for himself. In the kitchen, fresh fish heads pile up into huge mounds, and sheep carcasses hang worse than in a butcher's market. Yet we still guard and protect him, not letting evil ghosts harm him."