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.”

阿难！又，你们会这么想：『大师的教语已过去，我们没有大师了。』阿难！但这不应该被看作这样，阿难！凡被我为你们教导、告知的法与律，那是我死后你们的大师。