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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.
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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.
Translation of BZA 010. First version published in
Thus have I heard, once, the Buddha was staying at Sāvatthī at the Jeta Grove in the Anāthapiṇḍika Park.
At that time there was a monk called Thera, who lived alone, and praised living alone. At one time some monks went to the Buddha, paid homage to his feet, sat to one side, and told the Buddha: ‘World-honored One! This monk Thera praises living alone, wandering alone, sitting alone’. There the Buddha told the monks: ‘Call this monk Thera’. There one monk went to Thera’s place and said to him: ‘The World-honored One calls you!’. Having received the summons, monk Thera went to the Buddha, paid homage to his feet, and sat to one side. The Buddha said to Thera: ‘Do you really live alone and praise sitting and walking alone?’. Thera answered the Buddha: ‘It is true, World-honored One’. There the Buddha said: ‘How, now, do you enjoy living alone, how do you praise it?’. And Thera said: ‘World-honored One! Alone I enter the villages [for the alms-round], alone I leave them, alone I sit [in meditation]’. There the Buddha said to him: ‘There is a way of living alone, which is even better than yours. What is this way? [In whom the residue of] past desire has dried up , future desire will not arise, and present desire does not create [karmic formations]. [Such a person] is called a brāhmaṇa. Without ‘me’ and ‘mine’, he has cut though the fetters of doubt, keeping great distance from the sensual, he has extinguished his defilements’.
At that time the Buddha said a verse:
When the Buddha had finished, the monks, having listened to what he had said, were happy and practised accordingly.