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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。
時有娑婆世界主梵天王日日精勤往詣佛所，尊重供養。時娑婆世界主作是念： 今旦太早而來見佛，正值世尊入 瞿迦梨！瞿迦梨！於舍利弗、目連所起淨信心，汝莫長夜得不饒益苦！ 汝是誰？ 娑婆世界主梵天王。 世尊不記汝得阿那 如是，比丘！ 汝何故來？ 此不可治。
作是念已，即入彼房，至房戶中，以指扣戶，口說是言：
瞿迦梨言：
梵天答言
梵天王言：
瞿迦梨言：
娑婆世界主梵天王答言：
即說偈言：
於無量處所 生心欲籌量 何有 [烈-列+(里*吉)] 慧者而生此 覺想 無量而欲量 是陰蓋凡夫
時娑婆世界主梵天王往詣佛所，稽首禮足，退坐一面，白佛言：
世尊！我常日日勤到佛所，親覲供養。我作是念：
今旦太早來見世尊，正值世尊入即住戶中，徐徐大三昧。我且當入提婆達多伴黨瞿迦梨比丘房中。 扣戶，口說是言： 瞿迦梨！瞿迦梨！當於舍利瞿迦梨言：、目揵連賢善智慧者所起淨信心，莫長夜得不饒益苦！ 佛 弗 汝是誰？我即答言：是娑婆世界主梵天王。瞿迦梨言：世尊不記汝得阿那含耶？我即答言：如是。瞿迦梨復言：汝何故來我作是念：此不可治。即說偈言：於不可量處 發心欲籌量 不可量欲量 是陰蓋凡夫
佛語梵王：
如是，如是，梵王！
於不可量處 而發心欲量 何有智慧人 而生此妄想 不可量欲量 是陰蓋凡夫
佛說此經已，娑婆世界主梵天王聞佛所說，歡喜隨喜，從座起，為佛作禮，即沒不現。