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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
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：一時佛住王舍城迦蘭陀竹園。
世尊晨朝著衣持缽，入王舍城乞食，次第行乞，至火與婆羅門舍。火與婆羅門遙見佛來，即具眾美
禿頭沙門何故數來，貪美食耶？
爾時世尊知火與婆羅門心念已，即說偈言：
王天日日雨 田夫日夜耕 數數 殖種子 是田數收穀 如人數懷 妊 乳牛數懷犢 數數有求者 則能數惠施 數數惠施故 常得大名稱 數數棄死屍 數數哭悲戀 數數生數死 數數憂悲苦 數數以火燒 數數諸蟲食 若得賢聖道 不數受諸有 亦不數生死 不數憂悲苦 不數數火燒 不數諸蟲食
時火與婆羅門聞佛說偈，還得信心，復以種種飲食滿缽與之，世尊不受。以因說偈而施故。復說偈言：
因為說偈法 不應受飲食 當觀察自法 說法不受食 婆羅門當知 斯則淨命活 應以餘供養 純淨大仙人 已盡諸有漏 穢法悉已斷 供養以飲食 於其良福田 欲求福德者 則我田為良
火與婆羅門白佛：
今以此食，應著何所？
佛告婆羅門：
我不見諸天、魔、梵、沙門、婆羅門、天神、世人有能食此信施，令身安樂。汝持是食去，棄於無蟲水中，及少生草地。
時婆羅門即以此食持著無蟲水中，水
甚奇，瞿曇！大德大力，能令此食而作神變！
時火與婆羅門因此飯食神變，得信敬心，稽首佛足，退住一面，白佛言：
世尊！我今可得於正法中出家，受具足，修梵行不？
佛告婆羅門：
汝今可得於正法中出家，受具足。
彼即出家已，作是思惟：
所以族姓子剃除
髮鬚，著袈裟衣，正信非家，出家學道，……（乃至）得阿羅漢，心善解脫。