[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) › [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122) › 16.13 # 法苑珠林 16.13 法苑珠林 16.13 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [16.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.16.13) 大悲愍眾生　故令我歸依 善拔眾毒箭　故稱大醫王 世醫所療治　雖差還復生 如來所治者　畢竟不復發 世尊甘露藥　以施諸眾生 眾生既服已　不死亦不生 如來今為我　演說大涅槃 眾生聞祕藏　即得不生滅 > "Great compassion pities sentient beings, / and therefore causes me to take refuge. / Being skilled at plucking out all poisonous arrows, / you are named the Great Medicine King. / Though what worldly physicians treat / is cured, it recurs again; / what the Tathāgata treats / ultimately never flares up anew. / The World-Honoured One's ambrosia medicine / is bestowed upon sentient beings; / once sentient beings take it, / they neither die nor are born. / The Tathāgata now for my sake / expounds the Great Nirvāṇa; / sentient beings hearing the secret treasury / immediately attain non-arising and non-perishing." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 16.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.16.12) - [Next: 16.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.16.14) - [Up: 16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.16) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.16.13) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [妙法蓮華經玄贊](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1723.9.477) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.16.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.16.13) · Pramāṇa