[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) › 5.19 # 大方便佛報恩經 5.19 大方便佛報恩經 5.19 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [5.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.5.19) 佛告阿難：「爾時第一大臣聞大光明王以頭布施，心不堪忍，尋自捨命者，今舍利弗是；爾時大光明王者，今則我身釋迦如來是。菩薩如是修習苦行，誓為眾生念諸佛恩，是故超越得成阿耨多羅三藐三菩提。是故舍利弗聞於如來欲入涅槃，眼不忍見，先取滅度，與本不異。過去世時不忍見我捨於身命。我於此後園，在此一樹下，捨轉輪王頭，布施數滿一千，況餘身分，身體手足？」 > The Buddha told Ānanda: “The prime minister at that time who could not bear to hear of King Mahāprabhāsa giving his head in charity and forthwith abandoned his own life was none other than Śāriputra today; King Mahāprabhāsa at that time was none other than myself, the Tathāgata Śākyamuni. It was because the Bodhisattva practised austerities in this way, vowing to remember the kindness of the Buddhas for the sake of sentient beings, that he transcended \[all stages\] and attained anuttarasamyaksaṃbodhi. For this reason, when Śāriputra heard that the Tathāgata wished to enter nirvāṇa, his eyes could not bear to see it, and he entered extinction first, no different from how it was originally. In past lifetimes he could not bear to see me cast away my body and life. In this back garden, under this single tree, I have given away the head of a cakravartin king a full thousand times, not to speak of other body parts, trunk, hands, and feet!” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 5.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.5.18) - [Next: 5.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.5.20) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.5) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156~en-mt.5.19) — 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.353.5.9) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.5.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.5.19) · Pramāṇa