瑜伽論記 6.161

6.161

然此法住久，近文處不同，依摩耶經正法住五百歲，若依大悲經等正法千年像法千年末法萬年。又慶友法住記：言此佛法，刀兵劫後，人心厭惡，咸起慈心，不相殺害，共相怜愍，如父如子，命漸增長，至滿百年，十六大阿羅漢，三明六通，具八解脫，善閑三藏十二部經，受佛付囑，住持正法，利益眾生，不般涅槃，并餘眷屬大阿羅漢，萬餘徒眾，還以如來三藏教法，流行於世，化導群生，造寺度僧，修戒定慧，佛法熾盛，至增人壽六萬歲末，七萬歲初，諸阿羅漢總集，如來所有舍利，共造寶塔，十六阿羅漢與諸眷屬，遶塔供養，散諸香華，瞻仰禮已，俱昇虛空，作如是言敬禮世尊釋迦如來應正等覺，我受教勅護持正法，及與天人作諸饒益，法藏已沒，有緣已周，今辭滅度，說是語已，一切俱入無餘涅槃，其舍利塔，便陷入地，至金輪際，方乃停住，其三藏教，在舍利前，先已滅沒，經一百年，唯此淨法，與舍利塔，及諸阿羅漢，一時沒滅。爾時世尊釋迦牟尼無上正法，於此三千大千世界永滅不現，從此無間此佛土中，有七萬俱胝獨覺一時出現，至人壽量八萬歲時，獨覺聖眾，復皆滅度，以後彌勒出現世間。

However, the duration of this Dharma's abiding differs across nearby textual passages. According to the Māyā-sūtra, the true Dharma abides for five hundred years; according to the Mahākaruṇā-sūtra and others, the true Dharma lasts one thousand years, the semblance Dharma one thousand years, and the degenerate Dharma ten thousand years. Furthermore, Nandimitra's Record of the Abiding of the Dharma says: 'Regarding this Buddha-Dharma, after the kalpa of weapons, people will feel revulsion and all give rise to loving-kindness, no longer killing one another but showing mutual pity, like fathers and sons. Lifespans will gradually increase until reaching full one hundred years. The sixteen great arhats, possessing the three knowledges and six supernormal faculties, endowed with the eight liberations, well versed in the three baskets and the twelve divisions of scriptures, having received the Buddha's entrustment to maintain the true Dharma and benefit sentient beings, do not enter parinirvāṇa. Together with the other great arhats of their retinues, more than ten thousand disciples, they again spread the Tathāgata's teaching of the three baskets in the world, guiding and converting the multitude of living beings, building monasteries, ordaining monks, and cultivating precepts, concentration, and wisdom. The Buddha-Dharma will flourish until the human lifespan increases to the end of sixty thousand years and the beginning of seventy thousand years. All the arhats will gather all the relics of the Tathāgata, build a jeweled stupa together, and the sixteen arhats and their retinues will circumambulate the stupa, make offerings, scatter various fragrant flowers, and having gazed up and paid homage, will all ascend into the sky and speak thus: "We pay homage to the World-Honoured One, Śākyamuni Tathāgata, the Worthy, the Fully Enlightened One! We received the instruction to protect and maintain the true Dharma, and bring abundant benefit to devas and humans. The store of Dharma has already vanished, and our connections with sentient beings are completed; we now bid farewell and enter extinction." Having spoken these words, all enter nirvāṇa without remainder simultaneously. That relic stupa will then sink into the earth, stopping only when reaching the edge of the golden wheel. The teaching of the three baskets will have already vanished one hundred years prior to the relics. Only this pure Dharma, together with the relic stupa and all the arhats, will vanish all at once. At that time, the unsurpassable true Dharma of the World-Honoured One Śākyamuni will be forever extinguished and not appear in this great trichiliocosm. Immediately following this, in this buddhafield, seventy billion pratyekabuddhas will appear at once. When human lifespan reaches eighty thousand years, the noble assembly of pratyekabuddhas will also all enter extinction, and afterward Maitreya will appear in the world.'