[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [大方便佛報恩經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156) › 2.31 # 大方便佛報恩經 2.31 大方便佛報恩經 2.31 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.2.31) 『爾時施主滅毒井已，出外觀看，見受施者，藥發而死，異口同音皆言：「坐此施主與我毒食，令我早喪身命。我若先知此食有毒者，終不噉食。」爾時施主聞是語已，心生懊惱。如彼轉輪聖王，雖復十善導化，令諸眾生得生人天，雖受如是微妙五欲，微妙快樂，猶未能免生老病死。』時轉輪聖王尋發願言：『我今應當求索無上佛法、出世間法，令諸眾生讀誦翫習，遠離生死，得至涅槃。』 > "Then, after destroying the poisoned well, the donor went outside to observe. Seeing that the recipients of the charity had died from the poison taking effect, and with one voice they all said: 'Because this donor gave us poisoned food, he has caused us to lose our lives prematurely. Had we known beforehand that this food was poisoned, we would never have eaten it.' Hearing these words, the donor felt distress in his heart. It was like that wheel-turning king who, although he guided and transformed with the ten virtues, causing sentient beings to be born among humans and devas, and although they received such subtle and wondrous five desires and subtle and wondrous joys, still could not escape birth, old age, sickness, and death. At that time, the wheel-turning king immediately made an aspiration: 'I ought now to seek the unsurpassed Buddha-Dharma, the supramundane Dharma, so as to cause sentient beings to recite, practice, and become familiar with it, to leave birth and death far behind, and to attain nirvāṇa.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.2.30) - [Next: 2.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.2.32) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156~en-mt.2.31) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [ཐབས་མཁས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་སངས་རྒྱས་དྲིན་ལན་བསབ་པའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.353.2.17) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.2.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.2.31) · Pramāṇa