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，於後夜時來詣佛所，稽首佛足，退坐一面，其身光明遍照祇樹給孤獨園。時彼天子說偈問佛：
若人行放逸 愚癡離惡慧 禪思不放逸 疾得盡諸漏
爾時世尊說偈答言：
非世間眾事 是則之為欲 心法馳覺想 是名士夫欲 世間種種事 常在於世間 智慧修禪思 愛欲永潛伏 信為士夫伴 不信則不度 信增其名稱 命終得生天 於身虛空想 名色不堅固 不著名色者 遠離於積聚 觀此真實義 如解脫哀愍 由斯智慧故 世稱歎供養 能斷眾雜 相 超絕生死流 超度諸流已 是名為比丘
久見婆羅門 逮得般涅槃 一切怖已過 永超世恩愛
於是，天子聞佛所說，歡喜隨喜，稽首佛足，即沒不現。