法苑珠林 55.28

55.28

又百喻經云。昔有二賈客共行商賈。一賣真金。其第二者賣兜羅綿。有他買真金者。燒而試之。第二賈客即便偷他被燒之金裹兜羅綿。時金熱故燒綿都盡。情事既露。二事俱失。如彼外道偷取佛法著己法中。妄稱已有非是佛法。由是之故。燒滅外典不行於世。如彼偷金事情睹見亦復如是。

Furthermore, the Baiyu jing says: In the past, two merchants were traveling together to trade. One sold pure gold, and the second sold tūla cotton. When someone came to buy the pure gold, he burned it to test it. The second merchant then stole the gold that had been burned and wrapped it in the tūla cotton. Because the gold was hot, it burned the cotton completely away. Once the deed was exposed, both things were lost. Just like those non-Buddhists who steal the Buddha's Dharma, insert it into their own teachings, and falsely claim it as their own rather than the Buddha's Dharma: on account of this, their heterodox texts are burned and destroyed, and do not circulate in the world. Just as that matter of stealing gold was exposed to sight, it is likewise so.