[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) › [三彌勒經疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1774) › 1.35 # 三彌勒經疏 1.35 三彌勒經疏 1.35 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1774.1.35) 問：何以得知壞劫佛出？答：《悲華經》云「樓至佛般涅槃後，正法、賢劫一時滅盡。」既言正法、賢劫一時滅，故知壞劫佛出。有說不然，諸論劫減時佛出故，成壞二劫皆無減位故，應說住二十劫名一大劫。有說亦然，謂若言減時佛出、論為證者，既彼論減百年後佛不出。若爾，樓至佛二十劫住，應說九百九十九佛住世時量等彼增減為一劫半劫量，是故樓至亦半劫，以等諸佛壽故。 > Question: How is it known that a Buddha appears in a kalpa of destruction? Answer: The Karuṇāpuṇḍarīkasūtra says: 'After Rucika Buddha enters parinirvāṇa, the true Dharma and the Bhadrakalpa will simultaneously be extinguished completely.' Since it says that the true Dharma and the Bhadrakalpa are simultaneously extinguished, we therefore know that a Buddha appears in the kalpa of destruction. Some say this is not so: because the treatises state that Buddhas appear during the decreasing periods of a kalpa, and because both the kalpas of formation and destruction have no decreasing stage, one should say that the twenty kalpas of abiding are called one great kalpa. Some say this is also so: that is, if one says that Buddhas appear during the decreasing period taking the treatises as proof, then according to those treatises Buddhas do not appear when \[the lifespan\] has decreased below one hundred years. If so, for Rucika Buddha's twenty-kalpa abiding, one should say that the duration of the nine hundred and ninety-nine Buddhas' abiding in the world is equal to those increases and decreases as the measure of one kalpa or half a kalpa; therefore, Rucika's \[lifespan\] is also half a kalpa, so as to equal the lifespans of all the Buddhas. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1774.1.34) - [Next: 1.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1774.1.36) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1774.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1774~en-mt.1.35) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1774.1.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1774.1.35) · Pramāṇa