Publishing the Sutras

Tetsugen .. decided to publish the sutras ... in an edition of seven thousand copies ... Tetsugen began .. collecting donations ... After ten years Tetsugen had enough money to begin ... Uji Rive overflowed. Famine followed. Tetsugen took the funds .. for the books .. to save others .. Then .. began again ... Several years afterwards an epidemic spread ... Tetsugen again gave away what he had collected ... For a third time he started his work, and after twenty years .. was fulfilled ... Tetsugen made three sets of sutras, and .. the first two .. sets surpass .. the last.

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