法苑珠林 37.7

English (machine translation) 37.7

Language: English

37.7

As stated in the Guanfo sanmei jing: The Buddha left his shadow in a stone chamber beside the poisonous dragon's pool in the kingdom of Nagarahāra. The Buddha sat in the dragon's stone chamber cave and performed eighteen transformations for the dragon. Leaping up, his body entered the rock, appearing like a clear mirror; within the rock, it was reflected on the outside. Viewed from afar, it could be seen; viewed up close, it did not appear. Hundreds of thousands of devas made offerings to the Buddha's shadow, which also expounded the Dharma. (Even down to the present, it has not disappeared, awaiting the coming of Maitreya.)

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法苑珠林 — 道世, Classical Chinese