[Buddha-l] Ready for this, folks? Interesting idea.........

[Artur Karp]

And, ah, according to Mahaparinibbana-sutta (III, 22-23) the Buddha says:

"I remember well, Ananda, many hundreds of assemblies of Khattiyas that I
have attended; and before I sat down with them, spoke to them or joined in
their conversation, I adopted their appearance and speech, whatever it
might be. And I instructed, inspired, fired and delighted them with a
discourse on Dhamma, And as I spoke with them they did not know me and
wondered: "Who is it that speaks like this - a deva or a man?" And having
thus instructed them, I disappeared, and still they did not know: "He who
has just disappeared - was he a deva or a man?"

[And many hundreds of assemblies of Brahmins, of householders, of ascetics,
of devas.... etc.]

Artur


2013/5/12 Christopher Fynn <chris.fynn at gmail.com>

> On 11/05/2013, Jo <ugg-5 at spro.net> wrote:
>
> > Didn't the Buddha speak Magadhi?
> > Joanna
>
> Ah, according to some Mahayana sources, such was the power of the
> Buddha,  each of his audience heard him in their own language.  :-)
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