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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
爾時有摩納，名
世尊！云何觀察不善丈夫？
佛言：
譬如觀月。
又問：
云何觀察善勝丈夫？
佛復答曰：
亦如觀月。
爾時摩納復白佛言：
云何不善丈夫觀之如月？
佛言：
不善丈夫如十六日，月光漸減，圓滿轉虧，乃至於盡，損減不現。如佛法中不能信心受持禁戒，少所讀誦，若修少施，於其後時懈怠不勤，漸失信心，毀犯禁戒。復不布施，親近惡友，不至僧坊諮受於法。不聽法故，身、口、意業造於不善。以造惡故，身壞命終，墮於惡道。是故當知惡丈夫者，猶如彼月，漸漸損減，乃至滅盡。
又問：
云何善勝丈夫亦復如月？
佛言：
譬如初月，光明熾然，漸漸增長，至十五日，圓滿具足。如佛法中能有信心修行禁戒，習於多聞，修於布施，却除邪見，修於正見。於佛法中得純信心，堅持禁戒，善修多聞，能施不慳，具於正見。信心、持戒、多聞、惠施以漸增長，是善丈夫身、口、意行親近善友，具修諸善，身壞命終，得生天上。是故當知善丈夫者亦復如月。
爾時世尊即說偈言：
譬如盛滿月 處於虛空中 圓光甚暉曜 映蔽於諸星 亦如具信人 戒聞捨貪嫉 於諸嫉妬者 如月蔽眾星
時僧伽羅摩納聞佛所說，