e and a monasteryand left a guard to watch (the bowl)
making all sorts of contributions.
There may be there more than seven hundred monks. When it is near
middaythey bring out the bowlandalong with the common people[8]
make their various offerings to itafter which they take their midday meal.
In the eveningat the time of incensethey bring the bowl out again.[9] It
may contain rather more than two pecksand is of various coloursblack
predominatingwith the seams that show its fourfold composition
distinctly marked.[10] Its thickness is about the fifth of an inchand it has
a bright and glossy lustre. When poor people throw into it a few flowersit
becomes immediately fullwhile some very rich peoplewishing to make
offering of many flowersmight not stop till they had thrown in hundreds
thousandsand myriads of bushelsand yet would not be able to fill it.[11]
Pao-yun and Sang-king here merely made their offerings to the alms-
bowland (then resolved to) go back. Hwuy-kingHwuy-tahand Tao-
ching had gone on before the rest to Negara[12] to make their offerings at
(the places of) Buddha's shadowtoothand the flat-bone of his skull.
(There) Hwuy-king fell illand Tao-ching remained to look after him
while Hw
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