[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) › [中觀論疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1824) › 1.32 # 中觀論疏 1.32 中觀論疏 1.32 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1824.1.32) 「人根轉」下，第二明失教之意。所以失教者，正為人根鈍故也。問：何根鈍耶？答：正是慧根鈍也，亦得云信等五根俱鈍。又二十二根並鈍，故名鈍也。佛在世時有利有鈍，總名利根。佛滅度後雖有利鈍，總名鈍根也。就鈍根中，前五百年既是正法，即是鈍中之利；後五百年名為像法，是鈍中之鈍，故名轉鈍。 > From "people's faculties shifted" onward, this second \[part\] explains the reason for losing the teaching. The reason why they lost the teaching was precisely because people's faculties were dull. Question: Which faculties were dull? Answer: It is precisely that the faculty of wisdom was dull, or one could also say that the five faculties including faith and the others were all dull. Furthermore, the twenty-two faculties were all dull, hence they are called dull. When the Buddha was in the world, there were both sharp and dull, but collectively they were called sharp faculties. After the Buddha passed into extinction, although there were sharp and dull, collectively they were called dull faculties. Within the dull faculties, the first five hundred years were the true Dharma, so they were the sharp within the dull; the latter five hundred years were called the semblance Dharma, which was the dullest of the dull; hence they are said to have shifted to become duller. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1824.1.31) - [Next: 1.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1824.1.33) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1824.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1824~en-mt.1.32) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1824.1.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1824.1.32) · Pramāṇa