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第三劫次第，問：此三劫次第無間越不？答：一云：莊嚴劫望賢劫，定應無間。是故《藥上經》云「莊嚴劫千佛，最先成名仙光佛，最後成名毘舍佛。」解云：毘舍即前九十劫第三十一劫中佛故。此劫以後不說別劫，至第九十一劫方說賢劫。即知前九十劫以去名莊嚴劫。若以賢劫望星宿劫者，謂說不定。謂《大般若》第九云「佛告阿難云：『從此坐起無量苾芻，從此已後六十一劫星宿劫中當得作佛，皆同一號，謂大幢相如來。』」解云：若依此文，六十一劫為星宿劫量，星宿劫前皆名賢劫也。《賢劫經》第十云「普廣言轉輪聖王，即定光如來是也，其千子是賢劫中千佛。過千佛已，六十五劫當知無佛。然後有大劫量大名稱劫，皆同斯劫取成正覺。過此劫已，八十劫都無佛興。然後有劫名喻星宿，其八萬大臣，斯劫中取成正覺。過星宿劫，三百劫亦無佛興。然後有劫名重清淨，其采女八萬四千，當於其劫取成正覺。」解云：若依此文，賢劫已後有大名稱劫，然後乃有星宿劫八萬佛出世。

Third, the sequence of the kalpas. Question: Is the sequence of these three kalpas immediately consecutive or not? Answer: One view says: Looking from the Vyūhakalpa toward the Bhadrakalpa, they must certainly be immediately consecutive. Therefore, the Bhaiṣajyasamudgata Sūtra states: 'Of the thousand buddhas of the Vyūhakalpa, the first to attain [buddhahood] was named Buddha Prabhāsa, and the last to attain [buddhahood] was named Buddha Vipaśyin.' An explanation says: This is because Vipaśyin is the buddha in the thirty-first kalpa among the preceding ninety kalpas. After this kalpa, no separate kalpa is spoken of until the ninety-first kalpa, when the Bhadrakalpa is spoken of. Hence we know that the time going back through the preceding ninety kalpas is called the Vyūhakalpa. If looking from the Bhadrakalpa toward the Constellation Kalpa, it is said that the explanations vary. For the Mahāprajñāpāramitā Sūtra, fascicle nine, states: 'The Buddha addressed Ānanda, saying: "Immeasurable bhikṣus arising from this assembly, sixty-one kalpas from now, during the Constellation Kalpa, shall attain buddhahood, all having the same name, Mahādhvajalakṣaṇa Tathāgata."' An explanation says: If relying on this text, sixty-one kalpas constitute the measure of the Constellation Kalpa, and all [time] prior to the Constellation Kalpa is called the Bhadrakalpa. The Bhadrakalpika Sūtra, fascicle ten, states: 'Pusheng says that the wheel-turning sage king was Dīpaṃkara Tathāgata, and his one thousand sons are the one thousand buddhas in the Bhadrakalpa. After the one thousand buddhas have passed, know that for sixty-five kalpas there will be no buddha. Then there will be a great kalpa measured as the Mahāyaśas Kalpa, in which all together shall attain right awakening. After this kalpa has passed, for eighty kalpas no buddha will arise at all. Then there will be a kalpa called Constellation-Analogue, during which his eighty thousand ministers shall attain right awakening. After the Constellation Kalpa has passed, for three hundred kalpas likewise no buddha will arise. Then there will be a kalpa called Doubly Pure, during which his eighty-four thousand palace women shall attain right awakening in that kalpa.' An explanation says: If relying on this text, after the Bhadrakalpa there is the Mahāyaśas Kalpa, and only then is there the Constellation Kalpa in which eighty thousand buddhas appear in the world.