法苑珠林 92.6

English (machine translation) 92.6

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92.6

As the Mahālaṃkāra-śāstra states: The Buddha said, 'In the past I once heard that there was a bhikṣu who resided in a country, where cities, towns, and villages vied with one another to make offerings to him. His fellow renunciants hated, envied, and slandered him. When the bhikṣu's disciples heard these slanders, they said to their master, "Such-and-such a bhikṣu is slandering our preceptor." Then that preceptor, having heard these words, immediately called the slanderer over, consoled and exhorted him with kind words, and gave him robes. The disciples said to their master, "That slandering person is our enemy! Why does the preceptor console him and give him robes?" The master replied to them, saying, "That slanderer has done me a favor; I ought to make offerings to him." He then spoke a verse:

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法苑珠林 — 道世, Classical Chinese