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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
爾時佛告諸比丘：
月八日四天王遣使者案行天下，伺察世間，有慈孝父母，敬順尊長，奉事沙門、婆羅門，修於善法及行惡者，是故宜應修行善法，滅除眾惡，撿情守戒。至十四日四天王復遣太子案行天下。至十五日四天王自案行、伺察，亦復如是。時四天王既伺察已，往
帝釋 善法堂 上，啟白帝釋并語諸天：世間人中多有不孝父母，不敬沙門、婆羅門者，不奉事師及家尊長，……（乃至）無有多持戒者。爾時帝釋及諸天眾聞斯語已，慘然不樂。諸天咸作是言：損諸天眾，益阿脩羅！若世間中有人常能孝順父母，供養沙門、婆羅門，……（乃至）多能持戒，四天王上啟帝釋。時諸天等，極大歡喜，咸作是言：世間人中修行善事，極為賢善，作所應作。增益諸天，損阿脩羅！帝釋歡喜，即說偈言：月八十四日 及以十五日 并及神足月 受持清淨戒 是人得生天 功德如我身
帝釋所說，不名善說。所以者何？若漏盡阿羅漢所作已辦，應作是偈：
佛與羅漢應說斯偈，名稱實說，名為善說。月八十四日 及以十五日 并及神足月 受持清淨戒 斯人獲勝利 功德如我身
佛說是已，諸比丘聞佛所說，歡喜奉行。