[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) › [彰所知論](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1645) › 2.4 # 彰所知論 2.4 彰所知論 2.4 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1645.2.4) 器世界壞有其三種，火、水、風，壞者亦如前說。如是七次後世界復成，又被水壞至二禪天，從極光天即生大雲、降注大雨，其器世界如水化鹽銷鎔皆盡，彼水自竭。一水災次復七火災，度七火災還有一水。如是水災滿至七次、復七火災，後世界成。被風災壞，至三禪天。其風之力吹散妙高，何況其餘。第四禪天雖無外災，是等有情生與殿生、命盡殿隱。如是器情世界并成壞等咸皆說已。 > Destruction of the receptacle world has three types: fire, water, and wind; the destruction \[by fire\] has been explained above. After it happens like this seven times, the world forms again, and then it is destroyed by water up to the second dhyāna heaven. From the Ābhāsvara heaven great clouds then arise and pour down heavy rain, so that the receptacle world dissolves and melts away completely like salt dissolving in water, and that water dries up of itself. After one water disaster, there are again seven fire disasters; having passed seven fire disasters, there is again one water disaster. When such water disasters reach seven times, followed again by seven fire disasters, the world forms afterward. It is then destroyed by a wind disaster, up to the third dhyāna heaven. The power of that wind blows apart even Mount Meru, not to mention anything else. Although the fourth dhyāna heaven has no external disasters, those sentient beings are born together with their palaces, and when their life-spans end, the palaces vanish. Thus the receptacle world and the world of sentient beings, along with their formation and destruction, have all been explained. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1645.2.3) - [Next: 2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1645.2.5) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1645.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1645~en-mt.2.4) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [佛祖歷代通載](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.1.199) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1645.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1645.2.4) · Pramāṇa