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One Ripped Net
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Saicho 767-822
With a ripped net
you can't catch birds,
With one or two sects
how can you draw water*?
* save humanity
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Yī Mù Zhī Luó
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Zuìchéng 767-822
Yī mù zhī luó bùnéng dé niǎo,
Yi liǎng zhī zōng hézú pǔ jí.
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Notes: After returning to Japan from studying of Tiandai Buddhism on Tiantaishan in today's Zhejiang Province, Saicho founded the Tendai Sect of Buddhism in Japan. The Tendai sect gathered all the diverse sects to create on all encompassing Buddhism.
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