འཕགས་པ་ལགས་ཉས་ཀྱ་རྒྱ་དང་འབྲས་བ་བསྟན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.96
Teaching the Causes and Results of Good and Ill notes.96
- Language
- English
notes.96
96. The sūtra appears to be referencing a particular non-Buddhist offering ritual with which the translators are unfamiliar. The Chinese here is 謝蠶 (Taishō 2881, p. 1381c28), which appears to mean “thanking the silkworm goddess.” In ancient Chinese folk legends, there was the figure of the silkworm goddess ( 蠶神), who was worshiped to ensure the smooth production of the precious commodity of silk.