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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孤獨園。
時波斯匿王獨靜思惟，作是念：
世尊正法，現法，離諸熾然，不待時節，通達現見，自覺證知。此法是善知識、善伴黨，非是惡知識、惡伴黨。
作是念已，往詣佛所，稽首佛足，退坐一面，白佛言：
世尊！我獨靜思惟，作是念：
世尊正法，現法，離諸熾然，不待時節，通達現見，自覺證知，是則善知識、善伴黨，非惡知識、惡伴黨。
佛告波斯匿王：
如是，大王！如是，大王！世尊正法、律，現法，離諸熾然，不待時節，通達現見，緣自覺知，是則善知識、善伴黨，非惡知識、惡伴黨。所以者何？我為善知識，眾生有生法者，解脫於生；眾生有老、病、死、憂、悲、惱、苦者，悉令解脫。大王！我於一時住王舍城山谷精舍。時阿難陀比丘獨靜思惟，作是念：
半梵行者，是善知識、善伴黨，非惡知識、惡伴黨。作是念已，來詣我所，稽首我足，退坐一面，白我言：世尊！我獨靜思惟，作是念：我時告言：半梵行者，是善知識、善伴黨，非惡知識、惡伴黨。阿難！莫作是語： 半梵行者，是善知識、善伴黨，非惡知識、惡伴黨。所以者何？純一滿淨，梵行清白，謂善知識、善伴黨，非惡知識、惡伴黨。所以者何？我常為諸眾生作善知識。其諸眾生有生故，當知世尊正法，現法，令脫於生。有老、病、死、憂、悲、惱、苦者，離諸熾然，不待時節，現令脫惱苦，見通達，自覺證知，是則善知識、善伴黨，非惡知識、惡伴黨。
爾時世尊即說偈言：
讚歎不放逸 是則佛正教 修禪不放逸 逮得證諸 漏
佛說此經已，波斯匿王聞佛所說，歡喜隨喜，作禮而去。