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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：一時佛住舍衛國祇樹給孤獨園。
爾時尊者摩訶迦葉住舍衛國東園鹿子母講堂，晡時從禪覺，往詣佛所，稽首禮足，退坐一面，白佛言：
世尊！何因何緣，世尊先為諸聲聞少制戒時，多有比丘心樂習
學；今多為聲聞制戒，而諸比丘少樂習學？
佛言：
如是，迦葉！命濁、煩惱濁、劫濁、眾生濁、見濁，眾生善法退減故，大師為諸聲聞多制禁戒，少樂習學。迦葉！譬如劫欲壞時，真寶未滅，有諸相似偽寶，出於世間。偽寶出已，真寶則沒。如是，迦葉！如來正法欲滅之時，有相似像法生。
相似像法出世間已，正法則滅。譬如大海中船，載多珍寶，則頓沈沒。如來正法則不如是，漸漸消 滅。 如來正法不為地界所壞，不為水、火、風界所壞，……（乃至）惡眾生出世，樂行諸惡，欲行諸惡，成就諸惡；非法言法，法言非法；非律言律，律言非律；以相似法句味熾 然，如來正法於此則沒。 迦葉！有五因緣能令如來正法沈沒。何等為五？若比丘於大師所不敬不重，不下意供養。於大師所不敬不重，不下意供養已，然 復依 猗而住。若法、若學、若隨順教、若諸梵行──大師所稱歎者──不敬不重，不下意供養，而依止住。是名──迦葉！──五因緣故，如來正法於此沈沒。 迦葉！有五因緣令如來法、律不沒、不忘、不退。何等為五？若比丘於大師所恭敬尊重，下意供養，依止而住。若法、若學、若隨順教、若諸梵行──大師所稱歎者──恭敬尊重，下意供養，依止而住。迦葉！是名五因緣如來法、律不沒、不忘、不退。是故──迦葉！──當如是學！於大師所當修恭敬尊重，下意供養，依止而住。若法、若學、若隨順教、若諸梵行──大師所讚歎者──恭敬尊重，下意供養，依止而住。
佛說是經已，尊者摩訶迦葉歡喜隨喜，作禮而去。