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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
世有三法：一者、可憎，二、不可愛，三、不可追念。何謂可憎？所謂老也。何謂不可愛？所謂病也。何謂不可追念？所謂死也。
波斯匿王思惟是已，即從坐起，往詣佛所，頂禮佛已，在一面坐，白佛言：
世尊！我於靜處作是思惟：
世有三法：一者、可憎，二者、不可愛，三者、不可追念。何謂可憎？所謂老也。何謂不可愛？所謂病也。何謂不可追念？所謂死也。
佛告王曰：
如是，如是，此三種法，實如王言。
佛言：
大王！世間若無此三，佛不
出世，亦不說法。以有此三，故佛出世，為眾說法。 出世 出也
爾時世尊即說偈言：
王車嚴飾盛 莊挍甚奇妙 久故色毀敗 如身必歸老 實法無衰老 展轉相付故 咄哉老賊惡 端正殊妙色 汝能壞敗也 設壽滿百年 必入于死徑 病來奪其力 老將付與死 是故常樂禪 撿心勤精 進 進 定 了知生邊際 勝彼魔軍眾 度有生死岸
佛說是已，諸比丘聞佛所說，歡喜奉行。