翻譯名義集 7.46

English (machine translation) 7.46

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7.46

[Paṭa] In the Tang language, it is called a plain strip (māntiao); that is, a single piece of fine cotton cloth without the appearance of [paddy] fields. All three robes may be made in this seamless form. For one hundred and eighty-seven years after the Buddhadharma reached this land, those who went forth did not yet know how to cut and piece together [the robes], and wore only this garment.

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翻譯名義集 — 法雲, Classical Chinese