This file is part of the Bieyi za ahan jing 別譯雜阿含經-Project at Dharma Drum Buddhist College 法鼓佛教研修學院. Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange 蔣經國國際學術交流基金會 Chung-hwa Institute for Buddhist Studies 中華佛學研究所. Dharma Drum Buddhist College 法鼓佛教研修學院. Marcus Bingenheimer Editing & Encoding: Jung Hsi-chin 戎錫琴, Shi Zhanghui 釋章慧, Shu Huiyu 疏惠郁, Wang Ruixiang 王瑞鄉, Chueh Hui-chen 闕慧貞 Programming Jen Jou Hung 洪振洲, Marcus Bingenheimer

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The project was conducted 2005-2008. Some minor revisions and additions were done in 2009.

 Dharma Drum Buddhist College 法鼓佛教研修學院. 2005-2009

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 Enomoto, Fumio 榎本文雄 (1994): A comprehensive study of the Chinese Saṃyuktāgama: Indic texts corresponding to the Chinese Saṃyuktāgama as found in the Sarvāstivāda-Mūlasarvāstivāda literature. Kyoto: Kacho Junior College and other scholarly publications (as referenced). English translations by Marcus Bingenheimer.

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.

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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：一時佛住曠野精舍。

時有曠野長者疾病命終，生無熱天。生彼天已，即作是念：

我今不應久於此住不見世尊。

作是念已，如力士屈申臂頃，從無熱天沒，現於佛前。 時彼天子天身委地，不能自立，猶如酥油委地，不能自立。如是，彼天子天身細軟，不自持立。

爾時世尊告彼天子：

汝當變化作此粗身，而立於地。

時彼天子即自化形，作此粗身，而立於地。於是，天子前禮佛足，退坐一面。 爾時世尊告手天子：

汝手天子，本於此間為人身時所受經法，今故憶念不悉忘耶？

手天子白佛言：

世尊！本所受持，今悉不忘。本人間時有所聞法，不盡得者，今亦憶念，如世尊善說。世尊說言：若人安樂處，能憶持法，非為苦處。此說真實。如世尊在閻浮提，種種雜類，四眾圍繞，而為說法，彼諸四眾聞佛所說，皆悉奉行；我亦如是，於無熱天上，為諸天人大會說法，彼諸天眾悉受修學。

佛告手天子：

汝於此人間時於幾法無厭足故，而得生彼無熱天中？

手天子白佛：

世尊！我於三法無厭足故，身壞命終，生無熱天。何等三法？我於見佛無厭故，身壞命終生無熱天；我於佛法無厭足故，生無熱天；供養眾僧無厭足故，身壞命終，生無熱天。

時手天子即說偈言：

見佛無厭足聞法亦無厭 供養於眾僧亦未曾知足 受持賢聖法調伏慳著垢 三法不知足故生無熱天

時手天子聞佛所說，歡喜隨喜，即沒不現。