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 was 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 was to produce a comparative digital edition and partial translation of the 364 sutras of the BZA and their parallels. In the original interface, the texts were kept in an eXist database and are realized via XQuery and XSLT as HTML for the online user. The project lasted from 2005-2009.
Changes from the respective text base are usually marked with a RESP="t.100" attribute on the containing elements
Value added:
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). Markup of person and place names.
Other Chinese: Parallel and not-parallel divisions regarding the BZA marked. Verse and Prose.
Pāli, Sanskrit, Tibetan & others: Parallel and not-parallel divisions regarding the BZA. Verse and Prose. Markup of person and place names. Variant readings.
如是我聞:一時佛住舍衛國祇樹給孤獨園。
時波斯匿王來詣佛所,稽首佛足,退坐一面。時有
我是波斯匿王,拘薩羅王。
爾時世尊告波斯匿王:
汝今何故恭敬斯等,三稱姓名,合掌,問訊?
王白佛言:
我作是念:
世間若有阿羅漢者,斯等則是。
佛告波斯匿王:
汝今且止!汝亦不知是阿羅漢、非阿羅漢。不得他心智故,且當親近,觀其戒行,久而可知,勿速自決!審諦觀察,勿但
洛 莫。當用智慧,不以不智。經諸苦難,堪能自 辯。交契計挍,真偽則分。見說知明,久而則知。非可卒識, 當須思惟,智慧觀察!
王白佛言:
奇哉,世尊!善說斯理!言久相習,觀其戒行,……(乃至)見說知明。我有家人,亦復出家,作斯等形相,周流他國,而復來還。捨其被服,還受五欲。是故當知世尊善說。應與同止,觀其戒行,……(乃至)言說,
如有智慧。
爾時世尊而說偈言:
不以見形相 知人之善惡 不應暫相見 而與同心志 有 現身口密 俗心不斂攝 猶如鍮石銅 塗以真金色 內懷鄙雜心 外現聖威儀 遊行諸國土 欺誑於世人
佛說此