[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) › [妙法蓮華經玄贊](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1723) › 1.82 # 妙法蓮華經玄贊 1.82 妙法蓮華經玄贊 1.82 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1723.1.82) 「大比丘」者，《智度論》云，三義解大，諸眾中最大，大障礙斷，大人恭敬。真諦三釋：一勝大，學、無學人中勝。二體大，功德智慧極高廣。三數大，萬二千人。今合為六：一數大；二離大，大障斷故；三位大，大阿羅漢故；四德大，如經所說故；五名大，名稱遠聞故；六識大，大人大眾所知識故。梵云「苾芻」訛云「比丘」，由具五義所以不翻：一曰怖魔，初出家時魔宮動故。二言乞士，既出家已乞食自活故。三名淨持戒，漸入僧數應持戒故。四云淨命，既受得戒，所起三業以無貪發，不依於貪邪活命故。五曰破惡，漸依聖道滅煩惱故。 > "Great bhikṣu": the \*Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa\* says that "great" is explained with three meanings: greatest among all assemblies, great obstacles severed, and revered by great people. Paramārtha gives three explanations: 1. superiorly great, superior among persons in training and beyond training; 2. substantially great, virtue and wisdom being extremely high and vast; 3. numerically great, twelve thousand persons. Now they are combined into six: 1. great in number; 2. great in abandonment, because great obstacles are severed; 3. great in status, because they are great arhats; 4. great in virtue, as stated in the sūtra; 5. great in fame, their reputation being heard far and wide; 6. great in recognition, being known by great people and the great assembly. In Sanskrit it is \*bhikṣu\*, erroneously called \*biqiu\*; possessing five meanings, it is therefore not translated: 1. called frightening Māra, because when one first renounces household life, Māra's palace trembles; 2. called mendicant, because having renounced household life, one sustains oneself by begging for food; 3. called pure upholders of precepts, because gradually entering the monastic assembly, one ought to uphold the precepts; 4. called pure livelihood, because having received the precepts, the three activities one generates are motivated by non-greed and do not rely on greed or wrong livelihood; 5. called destroying evil, because gradually relying on the noble path, one eliminates defilements. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1723.1.81) - [Next: 1.83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1723.1.83) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1723.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1723~en-mt.1.82) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [阿彌陀經通贊疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1758.1.52) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1723.1.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1723.1.82) · Pramāṇa