[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) › [大般涅槃經集解](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1763) › 70.121 # 大般涅槃經集解 70.121 大般涅槃經集解 70.121 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [70.121](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1763.70.121) 案寶亮曰：便開悟也。大村譬四諦，娑羅林喻二十五有生死。夫生死是理外之法，故況之外也。中有一樹，喻佛昔凡夫時也。先林而生者，喻昔二十五有眾生，後修十地無漏法也。足一百年者，謂十地行也。是時林主灌之以水者，過去諸佛為己外緣，進生己善，或授之別記也。其樹陳朽下，譬佛斷煩惱障盡也。唯貞實在者，虛偽生死五陰既盡，唯餘神明妙本，無為法性真實法在也。外道設譬，領悟如此，況復學者而不仰信者耶？ > Baoliang remarks: Then he was enlightened. The great village exemplifies the four noble truths; the grove of śāla trees exemplifies the birth and death of the twenty-five states of existence. Now, birth and death are phenomena outside the principle, hence they are compared to what is outside. The single tree within exemplifies the Buddha in the past when he was an ordinary person. That which was born before the forest exemplifies the past sentient beings of the twenty-five states of existence later cultivating the uncorrupted dharmas of the ten stages. 'Fully one hundred years' refers to the practices of the ten stages. 'At that time the master of the forest irrigated it with water' refers to past Buddhas acting as his external conditions, advancing and generating his good roots, or bestowing upon him distinct prophecies. The tree becoming rotten below exemplifies the Buddha exhausting and cutting off the obstacle of afflictions. 'Only the genuine and solid remained' means that once the false and deceptive birth-and-death five aggregates were exhausted, only the wondrous fundamental nature of the spiritual illumination, the asaṃskṛta dharmatā, the true Dharma, remained. When a non-Buddhist sets forth a parable and grasps the realization like this, how much more should practitioners revere and believe it!" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 70.120](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1763.70.120) - [Next: 70.122](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1763.70.122) - [Up: 70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1763.70) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1763~en-mt.70.121) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1763.70.121](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1763.70.121) · Pramāṇa