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。
時有天子容色絕妙，來詣佛所，稽首佛足，身諸光明遍照祇樹給孤獨園。時彼天子而說偈言：
從地起眾生 何者為最勝 於空墮落者 復以何勝上 凡所祈請處 何者最第一 於諸言語中 何者為上辯
時有一天
五穀從地生 是則為最勝 種子於空中 落地為最勝 [絳-糸+牛] 牛資養人是則依中勝 愛子有所說 是則言中勝
彼發問天子語答者言：
我不問汝，何故多言輕躁妄說？我自說偈問世尊言：
爾時世尊說偈答言：
從下踊出者 三明為最上 從空流下者 三明亦第一 賢聖弟子僧 是師依之上 如來之所說 諸說之最辯
世間幾法起 幾法相順可 世幾法取愛 世幾法損減
爾時世尊說偈答言：
世六法等起 世六法順可 世六法取愛 世六法損減
時彼天子復說偈言：
久見婆羅門 逮得般涅槃 一切怖已過 永超世恩愛
時彼天子聞佛所說，歡喜隨喜，稽首佛足，即沒不現。