This is the default header for all files in the database. Files which contain gaiji, however, have an additional CHARDECL section in the ENCODINGDESC below.
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
Value added:
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：
此有三法，一切世間所不愛念。何等為三？謂老、病、死。如是三法，一切世間所不愛念。若無此三法，世間所不愛者，
諸佛．世尊不出於世；世間亦不知有諸佛．如來所覺知法，為人廣說。以有此三法，世間所不愛念，謂老、病、死故，諸佛．如來出興於世；世間知有諸佛．如來所覺知法，廣宣說者。
波斯匿王作是念已，來詣佛所，稽首佛足，退坐一面。以其所念，廣白世尊。佛告波斯匿王：
如是，
大王！如是，大王！此有三法，世間所不愛念，謂老、病、死。……（乃至）世間知有如來所覺知法，為人廣說。
爾時世尊復說偈言：
王所乘寶車 終歸有朽壞 此身亦復然 遷移會歸老 唯如來正法 無有衰老相 稟斯正法者 永到安隱處 但凡鄙衰老 醜弊惡形類 衰老 來踐蹈 迷魅愚夫心 若人壽百歲 常慮死隨至 老病競追逐 伺便輒加害
佛說此經已，波斯匿王聞佛所說，歡喜隨喜，作禮而去。