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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：
昔於一時
帝釋 與阿脩羅戰。當于爾時諸天不如，阿脩羅勝。爾時帝釋見已不如，尋即迴駕，欲還天宮，於其道中見苦娑羅樹。時樹上有金翅鳥巢。爾時帝釋即勅御者 苦娑 薝婆 摩得梨 言：此巢中有二鳥卵，脫能傷損。汝可迴車，避於此樹。帝釋即向摩得梨而說偈言：說是偈已，尋即迴車。時阿脩羅眾見帝釋迴，生大恐怖，各作是言：汝觀樹上巢 巢中有二卵 今車若往彼 必衝而 復破 復 傷 我若以此身 入阿脩羅陣 喪失於身命 終不傷鳥卵 帝釋向者詐現退散，今復迴者，必破我軍！阿修羅眾即時退，諸天逐退， 退 退散 迫到其城。 迫 自
佛告諸比丘：
釋提桓因居天王位，猶能長夜修於慈忍，汝等比丘當如是學。
諸比丘聞佛所說，歡喜奉行。