禅Mahakashyapa

proverb

First Council

Pre-Han

Traditionally attributed

Text

After the World-Honored One died, we gathered to remember his words. Memory was the first sangha; the rules were a fence around the memory; the practice was the field inside the fence.

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Attribution

Lineage: Indian Patriarchs

By Mahakashyapa

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