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Quotation from Journey to the West (A Mission to Heaven) by Wu Cheng'en

“Buddhism is purity and kindness. Though its God is unseen, the fruit of the religion is good.”

Wu Cheng'en (spoken by The Emperor's ministers)

Journey to the West (A Mission to Heaven), Chapter XII, trans. Timothy Richard (1913)

Portrait of Wu Cheng'en

Two ministers report to the Tang Emperor after a court debate in which a Confucian official had attacked Buddhism; their judgment allows the festival and the pilgrimage to go forward.

Citation: "Buddhism is purity and kindness. Though its God is unseen, the fruit of the religion is good." — Wu Cheng'en, Journey to the West (A Mission to Heaven), Chapter XII, trans. Timothy Richard (1913). (id journey-to-the-west-a-mission-to-heaven-q5)

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