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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 is 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 is to produce a comparative digital edition and partial translation of the 364 sutras of the BZA and their parallels. The texts are kept in single files in an eXist database and are realized via XQuery and XSLT as HTML for the online user. The project lasts from 2005-2008. For any changes after 2008 see the revision description.
Changes from the respective text base are usually marked with a RESP="t.100" attribute on the containing elements
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).
Other Chinese: Parallel and not-parallel divisions regarding the BZA. Verse and Prose.
Pāli, Sanskrit, Tibetan: Parallel and not-parallel divisions regarding the BZA. Verse and Prose. Variant readings.
如是我聞：一時佛在
爾時世尊告諸比丘：
昔
釋提桓因 將諸天眾，將欲往與阿脩羅戰。時釋提桓因語毘摩質多羅 阿脩羅王言：我等今者不必苟須多將人眾，共相傷害，但共講論，以決勝負。毘摩質多羅語釋提桓因言： 語 諸 釋提桓因言：憍尸迦 ！我等講論，若有勝負，誰當分別？ 我 汝 我等眾中毘摩質多言：并阿修羅亦有聰哲，智慧辯才，能 并 若 當善惡，決勝負者。 當 掌 賞 帝釋答言：帝釋 ！汝今先說。我亦能說。汝是舊天，應當先說。毘摩質多即說偈言： 質多 質多羅 釋提桓因復說偈言：今我見忍過 愚者謂忍法 彼怖故生忍 便以己為勝 毘摩質多羅復說偈言：隨彼言怖畏 己利最為勝 財寶及諸利 無勝忍辱者 釋提桓因以偈答言：愚者無智慧 要當須 止制 止 上 譬如彼後牛 騰陌先牛上 是故須刀杖 摧伏於愚者 諸天及阿脩羅眾有智慧者，詳共我觀止制愚 默忍最為勝 極大瞋恚忿 能忍彼自息 無瞋無害者 彼即是賢聖 亦賢聖弟子 常應親近之 諸有瞋恚者 瞋重障如山 若有瞋恚時 能少禁制者 是名為善 業 業 乘 如轡制惡馬 評議，量其勝負。以阿脩羅說諍鬪為本，釋提桓因止息諍訟，心無忿競。以阿脩羅負，帝釋為勝。 評 平
佛告諸比丘：
釋提桓因天中自在，長夜忍辱，讚忍辱法。汝等比丘若能忍辱，讚嘆忍者，稱出家法。
佛說是已，諸比丘聞佛所說，歡喜奉行。