[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) › [中天竺舍衛國祇洹寺圖經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1899) › 1.17 # 中天竺舍衛國祇洹寺圖經 1.17 中天竺舍衛國祇洹寺圖經 1.17 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1899.1.17) 大門之東自分七院。南畔西第一院，名他方白衣菩薩之院。院開北門，其內有堂，花樹充滿。每有他方俗士菩薩遠來朝覲，初止此中，後方見佛。其院中有頗梨師子，兜率天王手自作之，形如拳大。至時口出妙音，如命命鳥，音中說八萬波羅蜜。諸菩薩聞法登位地。每至臘月八日，舍衛城中士女各執香華來聽法音，及命命鳥、金翅鳥子、鵷鶵、鳳凰皆來相，人及諸鳥，或得初果及入大乘法眼淨者。 > East of the great gate, it naturally divides into seven compounds. The first compound to the west on the southern side is named the Compound of Lay Bodhisattvas from Other Directions. The compound opens a northern gate; inside it are halls, full of flowering trees. Whenever lay bodhisattvas from other directions come from afar to pay homage, they first stay herein, and only later see the Buddha. In that compound there is a crystal lion, made by the king of Tuṣita Heaven with his own hands, its shape the size of a fist. When the time arrives, its mouth emits a wondrous sound like a jīvañjīvaka bird, and within the sound it expounds the eighty thousand pāramitās. The bodhisattvas, hearing the Dharma, ascend to the stages. Every year on the eighth day of the twelfth month, the gentlemen and ladies of Śrāvastī each hold incense and flowers and come to listen to the Dharma sound; and jīvañjīvaka birds, young garuḍas, young phoenixes, and fenghuang all come together to gaze; humans and birds alike either attain the first fruit or enter the purity of the Mahāyāna Dharma-eye. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1899.1.16) - [Next: 1.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1899.1.18) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1899.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1899~en-mt.1.17) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1899.1.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1899.1.17) · Pramāṇa