[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) › [梵網經菩薩戒本疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1813) › 1.12 # 梵網經菩薩戒本疏 1.12 梵網經菩薩戒本疏 1.12 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1813.1.12) 第九、明傳譯緣起者。此經於大秦姚興弘始三年，有西域三藏法師鳩摩羅什，此云童壽，以持菩薩戒故，偏誦此一心地法門品。以此品略明菩薩戒相，是故印土持菩薩戒者，無不皆誦。于時沙門慧融、道祥等八百餘人，請羅什受菩薩戒。遂於逍遙園，或云於長安草堂寺中，共學士翻譯經論五十餘部，唯此《梵網經》最後。什自誦出，而共譯之。慧融等從筆受，亦同誦持。仍別錄此下卷之中偈頌已後所說戒相，獨為一卷，名作《梵網經盧舍那佛說菩薩十重四十八輕戒卷》。卷首別標當時受戒羯磨等事，仍云此羯磨出《梵網經．律藏品》內盧舍那佛為妙海王及王千子受菩薩戒法，其八百餘人誦此戒本也。 > Ninth, clarifying the circumstances of transmission and translation: In the third year of the Hongshi era under Yao Xing of the Later Qin, there was the Western Tripiṭaka Dharma Master Kumārajīva (which translates as "Youth of Long Life"); because he upheld the bodhisattva precepts, he specifically memorized and recited this single "Chapter on the Dharma-Gate of the Mind-Ground". Because this chapter briefly explains the characteristics of the bodhisattva precepts, those in the land of India who uphold the bodhisattva precepts all recite it without exception. At that time, more than eight hundred śramaṇas, including Huirong and Daoxiang, requested Kumārajīva to administer the bodhisattva precepts. Thereupon, in the Xiaoyao Garden, or according to some, in Caotang Monastery in Chang'an, together with scholars, he translated more than fifty works of sūtras and treatises, of which only this Brahmajāla Sūtra was the very last. Kumārajīva recited it himself from memory, and they translated it together. Huirong and others took it down in writing, and likewise memorized and recited it. Furthermore, the precept characteristics taught after the verses in this lower fascicle were separately excerpted to form a single independent fascicle, titled The Fascicle of the Bodhisattva Ten Major and Forty-Eight Minor Precepts Taught by Rocana Buddha in the Brahmajāla Sūtra. At the head of the fascicle, the karma ceremonies and other matters of receiving the precepts at that time were separately noted, further stating that this karma ceremony was drawn from the method of receiving the bodhisattva precepts administered by Rocana Buddha to King Wonderful Ocean and the king's thousand sons in the "Vinaya Piṭaka Chapter" of the Brahmajāla Sūtra; those eight hundred and more people all recited this precept text. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1813.1.11) - [Next: 1.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1813.1.13) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1813.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1813~en-mt.1.12) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1813.1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1813.1.12) · Pramāṇa