法苑珠林 77.34

English (machine translation) 77.34

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77.34

Having made this blessing, Maudgalyāyana accepted this white cloth, enabling the elder to receive inexhaustible merit. After he sat to one side, Maudgalyāyana gradually explained the Dharma to him, delivering discourses on giving, moral discipline, and rebirth in heaven; rebuking desire as impure, and teaching that transcendence is bliss. Thereupon, right on his seat, [the elder] attained the pure Dharma eye; having seen the Dharma without doubts, he received the five precepts and took refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma, and the holy Saṃgha. When Maudgalyāyana saw that he had attained the pure Dharma eye, he spoke this verse:

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法苑珠林 — 道世, Classical Chinese