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The project was conducted 2005-2008. Some minor revisions and additions were done in 2009.
All texts used with permission. Copyright for the Chinese text lies with the Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association (CBETA). Copyright for the Pāli text lies with the Vipassana Research Institute. Copyright for the Sanskrit text lies with Fumio Enomoto. Copyright for the English text lies with Marcus Bingenheimer. The Tibetan and Manchu texts are in the public realm. The digital edition itself is made available under the LGPL.
If Chinese, the text below is based on the Taishō text from the CBETA-Database
(Version Feb.2006). If Pāli, the text base is the VRI Chaṭṭa Saṅgāyana edition
(ver.3). If Sanskrit the text base is
This file has been created in the project "A Digital Comparative Edition of the Bieyi za ahan jing" conducted at the Chung-hwa Institute for Buddhist Studies 中華佛學研究所 and the Dharma Drum Buddhist College 法鼓佛教研修學院. The project was funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange 蔣經國國際學術交流基金會. The aim of the project was to produce a comparative digital edition and partial translation of the 364 sutras of the BZA and their parallels. In the original interface, the texts were kept in an eXist database and are realized via XQuery and XSLT as HTML for the online user. The project lasted from 2005-2009.
Changes from the respective text base are usually marked with a RESP="t.100" attribute on the containing elements
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BZA: New Punctuation. Markup of person and place names. Verse and prose. References to the print edition (Taishō). Corrected characters (according to CBETA).
ZA: New Punctuation. Verse and prose. References to the print edition (Taishō). Markup of person and place names.
Other Chinese: Parallel and not-parallel divisions regarding the BZA marked. Verse and Prose.
Pāli, Sanskrit, Tibetan & others: Parallel and not-parallel divisions regarding the BZA. Verse and Prose. Markup of person and place names. Variant readings.
如是我聞：一時佛住舍衛國祇樹給
爾時世尊告諸比丘：
過去世時天、
阿修羅對陣欲戰，釋提桓因語 毘摩質多羅阿修羅王： 莫得各各共相殺害，但當論毘摩質多羅阿修羅王言：議，理屈者伏。 設共論議，誰當證知，理之通塞？天帝釋言：諸天眾中自有智慧，明記識者。阿修羅眾亦復自有明記識者。毘摩質多羅阿修羅言：可爾。釋提桓因言：汝等可先立論，時毘摩質多羅阿修羅王即說偈，立論言：然後我當隨後立論，則不為難。 釋提桓因說偈答言：我若行忍者 於事則有闕 愚癡者當言 怖畏故行忍 毘摩質多羅阿修羅復說偈言：正使愚癡者 言恐怖故忍 及其不言者 於理何所傷 但自觀其義 亦觀於他義 彼我悉獲安 斯忍為最上 若不制愚癡 愚癡則傷人 猶如兇惡牛 捨 走逐觸人 執杖而強制 怖畏則調伏 是故堅持杖 折伏彼愚夫 帝釋復說偈言： 我常觀察彼 制彼愚夫者 愚者瞋恚盛 智以靜默伏 不瞋亦不害 常與賢聖俱 惡罪起瞋恚 堅住如石山 盛瞋恚能持 如制逸馬車 我說善御士 非謂執繩者 爾時天眾中有天智慧者、阿修羅眾中有阿修羅智慧者，於此偈思惟，稱量，觀察，作是念： 毘摩質多羅阿修羅所說偈，終竟長夜起於鬪訟戰諍。當知毘摩質多羅阿修羅王教人長夜鬪訟戰諍。釋提桓因所說偈，長夜終竟息於鬪訟戰諍。當知天帝釋長夜教人息於鬪訟戰諍。當知帝釋善論得勝。
佛告諸比丘：
釋提桓因以善論
議伏阿修羅。諸比丘！釋提桓因於三十三天為自在王，立於善論，讚歎善論。汝 等比丘亦應如是，正信非家，出家學道，亦當善論，讚歎善論，應當學。
佛說此經已，諸比丘聞佛所說，歡喜奉行。