[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) › 4.58 # 妙法蓮華經玄贊 4.58 妙法蓮華經玄贊 4.58 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1723.4.58) 願力異故，俱是濁世並化三乘，初權後實並化身故。若諸報佛及化佛中，不化二乘，初權後實未必濁時佛方出世。若化二乘初權後實，必濁時出，惡生難化漸入道故。此言濁者，入減劫中漸生此五即名濁時，故彌勒佛初減八萬漸向五濁方出世，故非要人壽三二十歲小災起時方名劫濁，故諸論云「劫減佛興世，劫增時轉輪王」。 > Because their vows differ. Both are turbid worlds, and both transform the three vehicles, employing the provisional first and the real later, and both are transformation bodies. If among all reward buddhas and transformation buddhas they do not transform the two vehicles and use the provisional first and the real later, it is not necessarily in a turbid time that the buddha appears in the world. If they transform the two vehicles, using the provisional first and the real later, they must appear in a turbid time, so that those of evil birth who are difficult to transform may gradually enter the path. What is here called "turbid" means that as one enters the decreasing kalpa and these five gradually arise, it is called a turbid time. Thus Maitreya Buddha only appears in the world at the beginning of the decrease from eighty thousand years as it gradually tends toward the five turbidities; it is not necessary that human lifespan reach twenty or thirty years when the minor disasters arise for it to be called the turbidity of the kalpa. Hence the treatises say: "When the kalpa decreases, buddhas arise in the world; when the kalpa increases, wheel-turning kings appear." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1723.4.57) - [Next: 4.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1723.4.59) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1723.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1723~en-mt.4.58) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1723.4.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1723.4.58) · Pramāṇa