法苑珠林 81.11

81.11

Furthermore, the Sūtra on a Householder Inviting the Saṃgha as a Field of Merit states: "Individually inviting five hundred arhats is not as good as taking one ordinary monk in the regular order of the Saṃgha. In my Dharma, there is no teaching of accepting individual invitations. If anyone individually invites a monk, he is not my disciple; this is the dharma of the six non-Buddhist teachers, disapproved of by the seven Buddhas." Therefore, we know there are three kinds of giving, and thus they cannot be discussed uniformly.