Kun-fu-tze-----gS`en-rabs-mi-bo----S`akya-muni
"Confucius was ten feet tall" |
1. "His nine-cubit body" |
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"a hillock head" |
2. "His head is like ... Mount Ri-rab." |
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"square face" |
"Square jaw." (p.225) |
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"moon-like protuberances [on his forehead]" |
4. "His forehead is ... like the half moon." |
"protuberance on the head." (p. 235) |
"sun-like nose" |
"Nose that emits light." (p. 227) |
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"dipper-like lips" |
10. "His upper lip is ... like water dropped" |
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11. "His lower lip is ... like the sesame flower." |
"The lower lip like the stalk of a loutus flower" (p. 225) |
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"a brilliant face" |
17. "His complexion is ... bright like sunshine" |
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"a supporting throat" |
"the neck like beryl cylinder" (p.239) |
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13. "his teeth are forty-two, |
"Forty teeth of the mouth." (p. 225) |
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"joined teeth" |
white, and ... close together." |
"White ... teeth without gaps" (p. 225) |
"a tiger's paws" |
23. "His nails are the red ..." |
"The marks of the nails are like red copper on whose tips there are five lion's mouths." (p. 243) |
"his eyebrows ... had twelve colors" |
"The color is glamorous ... of the hairs" (p. 524) |
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5. "His eyes, varicolored" |
"The eyes of the Buddha are blue" (p. 237) |
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"his eyes had sixty four veins" |
"four hundred and four veins directly entering the brain" (p. 235) |
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29. "The calves of his legs are like those of the e-na-ya antelope." |
"Like calves of a black antelope." (p. 242) |
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30. "The ankles ...have ... very broad bulges" |
"invisible ankles" [bulged] (p. 242) |
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"Standing he was like a flock of phoenixes" |
32. "His style of walking is ... like that of ... geese." |
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"sitting he as like a dragon crouching" |
"The joint-bones are intertwined [like] coiled nagas" (p. 242) |
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"His chest corresponded to a carpenter's square" |
"svastika marks on the chest" (p. 229) |
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"designs on his palms" |
"among the lines of his palms ... the palace of Mahes`vara" (p.228) |
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26. "His private the-ber is ... like the horse's" |
his penis "like that of a horse king" (p. 383) |
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Jack L. Dull: A Historical Introduction to the Apocryphal (Ch'an-Wei) Texts of the Han Dynasty. PhD diss., U. of WA, 1966. p. 520 |
Daniel Preston Martin: The Emergence of Bon and the Tibetan Polemical Tradition. PhD diss., IN U., 1991. pp. 94 to 97 |
Nobuyoshi Yamabe: The Sutra on the Ocean-like Samadhi of the Visualization of the Buddha. PhD diss., Yale U., 1999. |