[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) › 5.21 # 梵網經菩薩戒本疏 5.21 梵網經菩薩戒本疏 5.21 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [5.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1813.5.21) 初、制意者，菩薩理棄捨二乘，受持大乘真實之法，方名菩薩。而今乃棄大歸小，失其正行，乖理之極，故須制也。故《涅槃經》云：菩薩怖二乘道，如惜命者怖畏捨身。《大般若．戒品》云：若菩薩設殑伽沙劫受妙五欲，於菩薩戒猶不名犯，若起一念二乘之心即名為犯。如是等文廣如彼說。 > First, regarding the intention of its establishment: a bodhisattva should in principle abandon the two vehicles and receive and uphold the real Dharma of the Mahāyāna; only then are they called a bodhisattva. Yet now they abandon the Great and turn to the Small, losing their correct practice, which is the utmost perversion of principle; therefore it had to be established. Thus the Nirvāṇa Sūtra says: "A bodhisattva dreads the path of the two vehicles just as one who cherishes life dreads giving up their body." The "Precept Chapter" of the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra says: "If a bodhisattva were to experience the five wondrous desires for kalpas as numerous as the sands of the Gaṅgā, in terms of the bodhisattva precepts it would still not be called an offense; but if they give rise to a single thought of the two vehicles, it is immediately called an offense." Such passages are extensively expounded as in those texts. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 5.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1813.5.20) - [Next: 5.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1813.5.22) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1813.5) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1813~en-mt.5.21) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1813.5.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1813.5.21) · Pramāṇa