Jiù rén yī mìng, shèng zào qī jí fútú.

救人一命, 勝造七級浮屠。

Lit To save one human life is better than building a seven-storied pagoda [to the Buddha].

Note [Cf. Xǐngshì Héngyán, chap. 22; JW, chap. 80; Hé Diǎn, chap. 5; note: fútú, originally a transliteration of the Sanskrit word for Buddha, here means “pagoda”; see also diǎn tǎ qī céng above and zàijiā jìng fùmǔ below.]

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