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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.
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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孤獨園。
爾時世尊告諸比丘：
過去世時有天帝釋白佛言：
世尊！我今受如是戒：……（乃至）佛法住世，盡其形壽，有惱我者，時毘摩質多羅阿修羅王聞天帝釋受如是戒：要不反報、加惱於彼。 ……（乃至）佛法住世，盡其形壽，聞已，執持利劍，逆道而來。時天帝釋遙見毘摩質多羅阿修羅王執持利劍，逆道而來，即遙告言：有惱我者，我不反報、加惱於彼。 阿修羅！住！縛汝，勿動！毘摩質多羅阿修羅王即不得動，語帝釋言：汝今豈不受如是戒──若佛法住世，盡其形壽，有惱我者，必不還報──耶？天帝釋答言：我實受如是戒，但汝阿修羅言：息住受縛。 今且放我！帝釋答言：汝若約誓不作亂者，然後放汝。阿修羅言：放我，當如法作！帝釋答言：先如法作，然後放汝。時毘摩質多羅阿修羅王即說偈言：釋提桓因復告言：貪欲之所趣 及瞋恚所趣 妄語之所趣 謗毀賢聖趣 我若嬈亂者 趣同彼趣趣 放汝令去，隨汝所安。爾時天帝釋令阿修羅王作約誓已，往詣佛所，稽首佛足，退坐一面，白佛言：世尊！我於佛前受如是戒：佛告天帝……（乃至）佛法住世，盡其形壽，有惱我者，我不反報。毘摩質多羅阿修羅王聞我受戒，手執利劍，隨路而來。我遙見已，語言：阿修羅！住！彼阿修羅言：住！縛汝，勿動！ 汝不受戒耶？我即答言：我實受戒，且汝今住！縛汝，勿動！彼即求脫，我告彼言：若作約誓，不作亂者，當令汝脫。阿修羅言：且當放我，當說約誓。我即告言：先說約誓，然後放汝。彼即說偈，作約誓言：如是──世尊！──我要彼阿修羅王令說約誓，為是法不？彼阿修羅復為貪欲之所趣 及瞋恚所趣 妄語之所趣 謗毀賢聖趣 我若作嬈亂 趣同彼趣趣 嬈亂不？ 釋： 善哉！善哉！汝要彼約誓，如法不違。彼亦不復敢作嬈亂。爾時天帝釋聞佛所說，歡喜隨喜，作禮而去。
爾時世尊告諸比丘：
彼天帝釋於三十三天為自在王，不為嬈亂，亦常讚歎不嬈亂法。汝等比丘正信非家，出家學道，亦應如是行不嬈亂，亦當讚歎不擾亂法。
佛說此經已，諸比丘聞佛所說，歡喜奉行。