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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
何因緣故，若沙門、婆羅門來問於佛：『死此生彼，……（乃至）非生非不生。』默然不答？其餘沙門、婆羅門若見有人來問難者，隨意為說。我昔曾問沙門瞿曇：『死此生彼。』默不見答。『死此不生彼；死此亦生彼，亦不生彼；非生彼，非不生彼。』悉不見答。如斯之義，其餘沙門、婆羅門皆悉答之。沙門瞿曇為何事故，默然不答？
目連對曰：
其餘沙門、婆羅門不知色從因生，不知色滅，不知色味，不知色過，不知色出要。以不能解如是義故著色：『我生彼色；我不生彼著色；我亦生彼，亦不生彼著色；我非生彼，非不生彼。』受、想、行、識，亦復如是。如來如實知色從因生，色從因滅，知色味，知色過，知色出要。如來如實知故，色生，彼心無取著，乃知色非生非不生，亦不取著。受、想、行、識，亦復如是。
如斯之義，甚深無量，無有邊際，非算數所知，無有方處，亦無去來，寂滅無相。
爾時犢子梵志聞尊者目連所說，歡喜奉行。