[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) › 3.18 # 大方便佛報恩經 3.18 大方便佛報恩經 3.18 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.3.18) 佛告彌勒菩薩：「乃往過去不可思議阿僧祇劫有佛出世，號毗婆尸如來、應供、正遍知、明行足、善逝、世間解、無上士、調御丈夫、天人師、佛、世尊，出現於世，教化無量百千萬億阿僧祇眾生，皆令堅固阿耨多羅三藐三菩提。其佛滅後，於像法中，有國名波羅奈。其波羅奈大王聰叡仁賢，常以正法治國，不枉人民。王主六十小國、八百聚落。王了無子。王自供養奉事山神、樹神、一切神祇，經十二年不懈不息，求索有子。第一夫人便覺有娠，十月足滿生一男兒。其子端正，人相具足。生已召諸大臣、諸小國王，占相吉凶，即為立字。以其太子性善不瞋，名曰忍辱。忍辱太子其年長大，好喜布施，聰明慈仁，於諸眾生等生慈心。爾時大王有六大臣，其性暴惡，姧詭佞諂，枉橫無道，人民厭患。時六大臣自知於行有違，常懷嫉妬，憎惡太子。 > The Buddha told Maitreya Bodhisattva: "Long ago in the past, incalculable asaṃkhyeya kalpas ago, there was a Buddha who appeared in the world named Vipaśyin Tathāgata, Arhat, Samyaksaṃbuddha, Vidyācaraṇasaṃpanna, Sugata, Lokavid, Anuttara, Puruṣadamyasārathi, Śāstā Devamanuṣyāṇām, Buddha, Bhagavat. He appeared in the world and taught immeasurable hundreds of thousands of kotis of asaṃkhyeyas of sentient beings, establishing them all firmly in anuttarasamyaksaṃbodhi. After that Buddha's parinirvāṇa, during the semblance Dharma, there was a country named Vārāṇasī. The great king of Vārāṇasī was intelligent, benevolent, and virtuous; he always ruled the country according to the saddharma and did not oppress the people. The king ruled over sixty small kingdoms and eight hundred villages. The king had no son at all. The king himself made offerings and served the mountain spirits, tree spirits, and all deities, for twelve years without slacking or ceasing, seeking to have a son. The principal queen then found herself pregnant, and after the full ten months gave birth to a male child. The son was handsome and possessed of all human marks. After his birth, \[the king\] summoned all the chief ministers and the kings of the small kingdoms to divine his auspicious and inauspicious signs, and thereupon gave him a name. Because the prince's nature was gentle and free of anger, he was named Kṣānti. When Prince Kṣānti grew up, he took delight in giving, was intelligent, benevolent, and kind, and gave rise to an equal mind of compassion toward all sentient beings. At that time, the great king had six chief ministers whose natures were cruel and evil, deceitful, fawning, and flatterers, tyrannical and lawless, so that the people were weary and distressed by them. The six chief ministers, knowing themselves that their conduct was contrary \[to righteousness\], constantly harbored jealousy and detested the prince. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.3.17) - [Next: 3.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.3.19) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156~en-mt.3.18) — 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.353.3.8) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.3.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.3.18) · Pramāṇa