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連朕之膳 Sharing The Royal Table
王傳旨，教「在披香殿，連朕之膳擺下，與法師同享。」三藏謝了恩，與王同進膳進齋不題。王传旨，教「在披香殿，连朕之膳摆下，与法师同享。」三藏谢了恩，与王同进膳进斋不题。
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王傳旨，教「在披香殿，連朕之膳擺下，與法師同享。」
王传旨，教「在披香殿，连朕之膳摆下，与法师同享。」
The king gave order that it be laid in the Hall of Diffused Fragrance — "and set out my own board along with it, that the Master may share it with me."
教 is jiào, to direct that a thing be done. 朕 is the imperial 'we', reserved to the emperor alone, and it stands two characters away from 法師: the most exalted pronoun in the language, seated at the same table as a foreign monk.
三藏謝了恩，與王同進膳進齋不題。
三藏谢了恩，与王同进膳进斋不题。
Tripitaka gave thanks for the favour, and of their taking the meal together we shall say no more.
不題 — we shall say no more of it — is the storyteller's formula for closing one thread and turning to another, and that is exactly what it does here.
Sharing a ruler's own board is an extraordinary honour and the narrative spends four characters on it. The escalation that began with a summons to the steps has run all the way to the king's table, and none of it was asked for.
Then 不題 shuts the door. The most intimate scene available — a sick king and the monk who has just diagnosed him, alone over a meal — is precisely what the storyteller declines to show, and the chapter cuts to three disciples arguing about vinegar.