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HUANG Jian-ning. The Source of the Simile"The Tongue is Like a Unrotten LotusJ. Journal of Beijing Institute of Technology (Social Sciences Edition), 2003, (3): 85-87.
Citation: HUANG Jian-ning. The Source of the Simile"The Tongue is Like a Unrotten LotusJ. Journal of Beijing Institute of Technology (Social Sciences Edition), 2003, (3): 85-87.

The Source of the Simile"The Tongue is Like a Unrotten Lotus

  • The paper argues that the legend that frequently reading Fa Hua Jing(a Buddhist classics) makes the dead' s tongue unrotten like lotus is a incorrect paraphrase of the two tales in Mahaprajn a by the Buddhist followers in China.Later the distorted legend was borrowed by the readers of Emituo Jing(a Buddhistclassics) and even was generalized into a supernatural miracle for description of worshiped monks with great virtue.
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