[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) › [佛制比丘六物圖](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1900) › 1.35 # 佛制比丘六物圖 1.35 佛制比丘六物圖 1.35 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1900.1.35) 下衣五條，一長一短。中衣七條，兩長一短。大衣三品：下品有三，九條、十一條、十三條，並兩長一短；中品三者，十五、十七、十九條，並三長一短；上品三者，二十一、二十三、二十五條，並四長一短。《鈔》云：「準此為大準，隨力辨之。」（九品中，隨財體多少，得一受持。）《羯磨疏》云：「所以極至二十五者，欲為二十五，有作福田故。所以唯隻非雙者，沙門仁育，同世陽化，故非偶數。所以長短者，如世稻畦隨水處，高下別也。又為利諸有，表聖增而凡減，喻長多而短少也。」今時禪門多著九條，或三長、四長，隨意而作，此非法也。《疏》云：「長短差違，乖慈梵故，隨步越儀，一一結罪。」矧又色帶長垂，花排細刺，山水毳衲，損業廢功。真誠學道，不捨寸陰，自非無所用心，何暇專功於此？ > The lower robe has five strips: one long and one short. The middle robe has seven strips: two long and one short. The great robe has three grades: The lower grade has three kinds—nine strips, eleven strips, and thirteen strips, all with two long and one short. The middle grade has three kinds—fifteen, seventeen, and nineteen strips, all with three long and one short. The upper grade has three kinds—twenty-one, twenty-three, and twenty-five strips, all with four long and one short. The Shichao says: "Follow this as the general standard, and make it according to one's ability." (Among the nine grades, depending on the quantity of cloth material, one may take and maintain any one.) The Jiemoshu says: "The reason it reaches a maximum of twenty-five is that it is intended to serve as a field of merit for the twenty-five realms of existence. The reason they are only odd and not even is that a śramaṇa's benevolent nurturing corresponds to the worldly yang transformation, hence they are not even numbers. The reason there are long and short strips is like the difference between high and low where rice paddies follow water in the world. Furthermore, to benefit all realms of existence, it represents the increase of the noble and the decrease of the ordinary, symbolizing that the long are many and the short are few." Nowadays, those in the Chan school mostly wear nine strips, or make them with three long or four long at their own whim; this is uncanonical. The commentary says: "Discrepancies in the long and short violate the compassionate Sanskrit \[rules\], and with every step deportment is transgressed, with an offense incurred for each." How much more so when ribbons hang down long, fine floral embroidery is arranged, and patchwork robes depict mountains and waters, spoiling one's karma and wasting one's effort! If one truly and sincerely studies the Way, not letting an inch of time slip by, unless one has nothing at all to apply the mind to, how could one have the leisure to dedicate effort to this? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1900.1.34) - [Next: 1.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1900.1.36) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1900.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1900~en-mt.1.35) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1900.1.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1900.1.35) · Pramāṇa