"Tangke from the Tang dynasty went into the temple to warm up, he was very cold and wet. But it was cold in the temple. Then he took one of the wooden images of Buddha and made a fire from it. The caretaker of the temple saw this and became very angry: “How dare you burn a statue of Buddha?”
Then Tanke took a stick and began to stir it in the hot ashes, as if looking for something. “I will collect the holy sariris,” Tanke said. “But how,” asked the servant, “can you find the sariri wooden Buddha?” “If there is no sariri,” Tanke replied, “can I put the remaining two Buddhas on the fire?”... Subsequently, the servant lost both eyebrows for protesting against Tanke’s obvious wickedness, and the Buddha’s wrath never fell on the latter.”
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru