This is the default header for all files in the database. Files which contain gaiji, however, have an additional CHARDECL section in the ENCODINGDESC below.
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！此迦毘羅人民熾盛，安隱豐樂。我常在中，每自思惟：『若有狂象、奔車逸馬、狂走之人來觸於我，我於爾時或當忘失念佛之心，或復忘失念法、僧心。』復自念言：『若當忘失三寶心者，命終之時當生何處？入何趣中，受何果報？』
佛告之曰：
汝當爾時勿生怖畏，命終之後生於善處，不墮惡趣，不受惡報。譬如大樹，初生長時，恒常東靡。若有斫伐，當向何方，然後墜落？當知此樹必東向倒。汝亦如是，長夜修善，若墮惡趣，受惡報者，無有是處。
時釋摩男聞佛所說，頂禮佛足，還其所止。