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阿彌陀經通贊疏 1.76

阿彌陀經通贊疏 1.76

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贊曰:第七化貪除慢對。迦留陀夷,《正法念經》云:翻為黑曜,身有黑光,能照曜故。《增一》云:迦留陀夷夜行乞食,值天陰暗,閃電照見,孕婦驚怖將為神鬼,時乃墮胎,遂詣白佛。佛呵責已,便立禁戒不得夜行乞食。又化慳女令捨慳貪,具如別處。此尊者驚孕婦傷子,化慳女捨貪,損正教於一時,立規繩於千古,故云化貪也。

The commentary says: The seventh is the pair of transforming greed and eliminating arrogance. "Kālodāyin": the Saddharmasmṛtyupasthāna Sūtra says it translates as "Black Radiance," because his body had a black radiance that could illuminate. The Ekottarāgama says: Kālodāyin went out begging for food at night; encountering dark and overcast weather, a flash of lightning revealed him, and a pregnant woman was so terrified, thinking he was a ghost or spirit, that she miscarried; she then went to report this to the Buddha. The Buddha rebuked him and established the prohibitive precept against begging for food at night. Furthermore, he transformed a stingy woman to make her abandon stinginess and greed, as detailed elsewhere. For this venerable one, he frightened a pregnant woman, harming her child, and converted a stingy woman to abandon greed; causing a temporary harm to the correct teaching, he established a rule for a thousand ages; hence it is called "transforming greed."

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