法苑珠林 36.73

English (machine translation) 36.73

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36.73

The Bowu zhi says: 'An envoy from the Western Regions offered incense. According to Han regulations, if an incense offering was less than a jin, it could not be accepted. As the Western envoy was about to depart, he opened the incense container, and [took a piece] the size of a soybean to test it on the palace gate. The fragrant aroma was smelled for dozens of li in all four directions around Chang'an, and subsided only after an entire day.'

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法苑珠林 — 道世, Classical Chinese