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**BopeDolaNeone** · 07-24-2010, 08:57 AM

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I would suggest that such statements as that the Buddha's tongue was long enough to reach into another world have no place in serious Dhamma study in Western culture in our time.

This is the part about the tongue in Ch.21 :

He put forth his vast and long tongue which reached upward to the Brahma worlds. From all of his hair pores, he emitted lights of limitless, countless colors, all of which pervasively illuminated the worlds of the ten directions. In the same way, all the Buddhas seated on lion thrones beneath jeweled trees also put forth their vast and long tongues and emitted limitless lights.

When Shakyamuni Buddha and the Buddhas beneath the jeweled trees had manifested their spiritual powers for a full hundred thousand years, they withdrew their tongues.

07-24-2010, 08:57 AM	#22
BopeDolaNeone Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 402 Senior Member	. I would suggest that such statements as that the Buddha's tongue was long enough to reach into another world have no place in serious Dhamma study in Western culture in our time. This is the part about the tongue in Ch.21 : He put forth his vast and long tongue which reached upward to the Brahma worlds. From all of his hair pores, he emitted lights of limitless, countless colors, all of which pervasively illuminated the worlds of the ten directions. In the same way, all the Buddhas seated on lion thrones beneath jeweled trees also put forth their vast and long tongues and emitted limitless lights. When Shakyamuni Buddha and the Buddhas beneath the jeweled trees had manifested their spiritual powers for a full hundred thousand years, they withdrew their tongues.
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