法苑珠林 12.55

English (machine translation) 12.55

Language: English

12.55

"The Buddha was the holy lion king; / Ānanda is the Buddha's son. / Sitting in the lion's seat, / One gazes upon the assembly, but there is no Buddha. / In such an assembly of great virtue, / Without the Buddha's majestic spiritual power to preach, / It is like a night without the moon, / When empty space is neither bright nor clear. / As spoken by the person of great wisdom, / You, son of the Buddha, must now expound: / Where did the Buddha first preach? / Now you must bestow [the Dharma]!"

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法苑珠林 — 道世, Classical Chinese