[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) › [尼羯磨](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1810) › 3.118 # 尼羯磨 3.118 尼羯磨 3.118 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.118](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1810.3.118) 有五法令正法疾滅，何等五？有比丘不諦受誦，憙忘誤，文不具足，以教餘人；文既不具，其義有闕。是為第一疾滅正法。復次，有比丘為僧中勝人上座，若一國所宗，而多不持戒，但修諸不善法，放捨戒行，不勤精進，未得而得，未入而入，未證而證。後生年少比丘倣習其行，亦多破戒，修不善法，放捨戒行，亦不勤精進，未得而得，未入而入，未證而證。是為第二疾滅正法。復次，有比丘多聞，持法、持律、持摩夷，不以所誦教餘比丘、比丘尼、優婆塞、優婆私，便命終；彼既命終，令法斷滅。是為第三疾滅正法。復次，有比丘難可教授，不受善言，不能忍辱，餘善比丘即便捨置。是為第四疾滅正法。復次，有比丘喜鬪諍，共相罵詈，彼此諍言，口如刀劍，互求長短。是為第五疾滅正法。復有五法令正法久住（反上句是）。 > There are five things that cause the true Dharma to quickly perish. What are the five? A bhikṣu does not receive and recite carefully, tends to forget and make errors, and with incomplete texts teaches other people; since the text is incomplete, its meaning is deficient. This is the first \[thing that causes\] the true Dharma to quickly perish. Furthermore, a bhikṣu is an eminent person and senior elder in the saṃgha, or revered by an entire country, yet mostly does not uphold the precepts, cultivates only unwholesome phenomena, abandons the practice of precepts, is not diligent and energetic, \[claiming\] to have obtained what was not obtained, to have entered what was not entered, and to have realized what was not realized. Junior bhikṣus born later imitate his conduct, also mostly breaking precepts, cultivating unwholesome phenomena, abandoning the practice of precepts, and also not being diligent and energetic, \[claiming\] to have obtained what was not obtained, to have entered what was not entered, and to have realized what was not realized. This is the second \[thing that causes\] the true Dharma to quickly perish. Furthermore, a bhikṣu of broad learning who upholds the Dharma, upholds the vinaya, and upholds the mātṛkā does not teach what he has recited to other bhikṣus, bhikṣuṇīs, upāsakas, or upāsikās, and then passes away; when he has passed away, it causes the Dharma to be severed and perish. This is the third \[thing that causes\] the true Dharma to quickly perish. Furthermore, a bhikṣu is difficult to instruct, does not accept good words, and is unable to practice forbearance, so that other good bhikṣus simply cast him aside. This is the fourth \[thing that causes\] the true Dharma to quickly perish. Furthermore, bhikṣus are fond of quarreling and disputing, reviling one another, disputing with each other, their mouths like knives and swords, mutually seeking out shortcomings. This is the fifth \[thing that causes\] the true Dharma to quickly perish. Furthermore, there are five things that cause the true Dharma to abide long (the opposite of the sentences above). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.117](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1810.3.117) - [Next: 3.119](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1810.3.119) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1810.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1810~en-mt.3.118) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [四分律](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.vinaya.other-vinayas.dharmaguptaka*zh-buddhayasas.59.61) — Classical Chinese - [僧羯磨](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1809.3.142) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1810.3.118](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1810.3.118) · Pramāṇa