The Parable of the Rain Cloud

The Buddha compares himself to a great rain cloud that rises in the sky at the beginning of the monsoon season. This sort of scene is very often described in sound script and pali literature. It's this sort of scene also that is depicted in the first of the two parables from the white lotus sudra with which we shall be dealing this evening.

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