[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [集沙門不應拜俗等事](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2108) › 1.8 # 集沙門不應拜俗等事 1.8 集沙門不應拜俗等事 1.8 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2108.1.8) 故事者。明隋以上沙門致敬等事也。自大法東流六百餘載。其中信毀交貿褒挫相傾。亟染湮殘頻令拜伏。而事非經國理越天常。用為蠹道。俱㳂舊貫焉。 > The "Precedents" clarify the matters of śramaṇas paying reverence from the Sui dynasty and earlier. Since the Great Dharma flowed eastward for more than six hundred years, faith and disparagement have alternated, and praise and blame have contended with each other. Often subjected to decline and repeatedly ordered to kneel and bow down, yet because this matter does not govern the state and its principle surpasses mundane constants, regarding it as destructive to the Way, the past practices have always been retained. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2108.1.7) - [Next: 1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2108.1.9) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2108.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2108~en-mt.1.8) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2108.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2108.1.8) · Pramāṇa