法苑珠林 16.28

16.28

Furthermore, the Mahāprajñāpāramitā-śāstra states: “The World-Honoured One’s body is endowed with marks of fine and thin skin, so that dust and dirt do not adhere to it. His body is like a lotus leaf, unaffected by dust or water. If a bodhisattva walks in meditation among hills of dry earth, the soil does not stick to his feet. Even when a violent wind comes and blows apart the hills of earth, scattering them into dust, not a single speck of dust adheres to the Buddha’s body. When a bodhisattva takes food and places it into his mouth, at that time from two places beside his throat amṛta flows, blending with the various flavours. These flavours are pure, and therefore it is called ‘attaining the supreme flavour among flavours’.”