引述

“Now, Ānanda, if it occurs to any of you—‘The teaching has lost its arbitrator; we are without a Teacher’—do not view it in that way. Whatever Dhamma and Vinaya I have pointed out and formulated for you, that will be your Teacher when I am gone.”

阿難！又，你們會這麼想：『大師的教語已過去，我們沒有大師了。』阿難！但這不應該被看作這樣，阿難！凡被我為你們教導、告知的法與律，那是我死後你們的大師。