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# The Long Āgama Sūtra 2.116

長阿含經 2.116

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [2.116](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas.2.116)

「無上二足尊，照世大沙門；  
阿難請天師，地動何因緣？  
如來演慈音，聲如迦毘陵；  
我說汝等聽，地動之所由。  
地因水而止，水因風而住；  
若虛空風起，則地為大動。  
比丘比丘尼，欲試神足力；  
山海百草木，大地皆震動。  
釋梵諸尊天，意欲動於地；  
山海諸鬼神，大地為震動。  
菩薩二足尊，百福相已具；  
始入母胎時，地則為大動。  
十月處母胎，如龍臥茵蓐；  
初從右脇生，時地則大動。  
佛為童子時，消滅使緣縛；  
成道勝無量，地則為大動。  
昇仙轉法輪，於鹿野苑中；  
道力降伏魔，則地大為動。  
天魔頻來請，勸佛般泥洹；  
佛為捨性命，地則為大動。  
人尊大導師，神仙盡後有；  
難動而取滅，時地則大動。  
淨眼說諸緣，地動八事動；  
有此亦有餘，時地皆震動。」

> “The unsurpassed sage of bipeds,  
> He’s a great ascetic who lights up the world.  
> Ānanda asked the teacher of gods,  
> ‘What’s the reason for this earthquake?’  
> — Charles Patton, The Long Discourses (selected sūtras)

> The Tathāgata explained it in a kind voice  
> That sounded like a kalaviṅka.  
> ‘I’ll tell you all, so listen:  
> There are these causes of earthquakes.  
> — Charles Patton, The Long Discourses (selected sūtras)

> The earth depends on water, which remains.  
> Water depends on air, which abides.  
> If a wind rises in that space,  
> Then the earth is shaken greatly.  
> — Charles Patton, The Long Discourses (selected sūtras)

> Sometimes, a monk or nun  
> Wants to test their miraculous power.  
> The mountains, oceans, grasses, and trees,  
> The whole earth is shaken.  
> — Charles Patton, The Long Discourses (selected sūtras)

> Śakra, Brahmā, and the venerable gods  
> Sometimes want to shake the earth.  
> Demons and spirits of mountains and oceans  
> Also make the earth quake.  
> — Charles Patton, The Long Discourses (selected sūtras)

> When bodhisattvas and sages of bipeds,  
> Replete with a hundred signs of merit,  
> First enter their mother’s womb,  
> Then the earth is shaken greatly.  
> — Charles Patton, The Long Discourses (selected sūtras)

> They dwell in the womb for ten months  
> Like nāgas lying on a mat.  
> When they first emerge from her right side,  
> Then the earth is shaken greatly.  
> — Charles Patton, The Long Discourses (selected sūtras)

> When the Buddha was a young man  
> He eliminated the conditions that fettered him,  
> Achieved awakening supreme and measureless,  
> Then the earth was shaken greatly.  
> — Charles Patton, The Long Discourses (selected sūtras)

> Become a sage, he turned the Dharma wheel  
> There in the deer preserve.  
> When he defeated Māra with awakening’s strength,  
> Then the earth was shaken greatly.  
> — Charles Patton, The Long Discourses (selected sūtras)

> The god Māra came to press his request,  
> Urging the Buddha to parinirvāṇa.  
> When the Buddha discarded his life force,  
> Then the earth was shaken greatly.  
> — Charles Patton, The Long Discourses (selected sūtras)

> The human worthy, the great teacher,  
> The miraculous sage ended later existences.  
> He was hard to move but chose to go out,  
> And the earth was shaken greatly.  
> — Charles Patton, The Long Discourses (selected sūtras)

> The pure eye explained these reasons,  
> These eight situations that cause earthquakes.  
> When there’s this, there’s also that;  
> These are the occasions of earthquakes.”  
> — Charles Patton, The Long Discourses (selected sūtras)

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## Translations (2)

- [The Long Discourses (selected sūtras)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas~en-patton.2.p180) — Charles Patton, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas~en-mt.2.116) — English, machine translation

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