諸經要集 5.15

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5.15

Furthermore, the Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra says: How does a bodhisattva make offerings to the Tathāgata toward the Tathāgata? One should know that offerings are briefly of ten kinds: first, offerings to relics (śarīra); second, distinctive offerings; third, offerings in presence; fourth, offerings in absence; fifth, offerings made by oneself; sixth, offerings taught to others; seventh, offerings of wealth and reverence; eighth, coarse and great offerings; ninth, untainted offerings; and tenth, offerings of right practice. (The explanatory text is largely identical.) Furthermore, the Upāsakaśīla-sūtra says: The Buddha said: "Good sons, if a lay bodhisattva wishes to receive and uphold the upāsaka precepts, he should first make offerings in sequence to the six directions." It says:

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諸經要集 — Classical Chinese