[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) › [四明尊者教行錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1937) › 4.55 # 四明尊者教行錄 4.55 四明尊者教行錄 4.55 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1937.4.55) 答：於諸方面各那由他諸小國土方名大千。經云大千等微塵數，豈不該於十萬？如一微塵尚有十方分，況大千耶？若言盡十方界皆抹為塵，則方與經文相違也。 > Answer: It is only when there are nayutas of small lands in each of the various directions that it is called a great-thousand \[world\]. When the sūtra speaks of 'dust particles of a great-thousand, etc.', how could it not encompass a hundred thousand? If a single particle of dust still possesses divisions in the ten directions, how much more so a great-thousand world? If one were to say that the entire realms of the ten directions were all reduced to dust, only then would it contradict the sūtra text. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1937.4.54) - [Next: 4.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1937.4.56) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1937.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1937~en-mt.4.55) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1937.4.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1937.4.55) · Pramāṇa