法苑珠林 55.28

55.28

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.