[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) › [萬善同歸集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2017) › 2.82 # 萬善同歸集 2.82 萬善同歸集 2.82 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2017.2.82) 「或代誅贖罪，沒命救人；或釋放狴牢，赦宥刑罰；或歸復遷客，招召逋民；或停置關防，放諸商稅；或給濟貧病，撫恤孤惸。常以仁恕居懷，恒將惠愛為念。若覺、若夢，不忘慈心；乃至蠕動蜎飛，普皆覆護。《華嚴經》云：『佛子，菩薩摩訶薩見有獄囚，五處被縛，受諸苦毒，防衛驅逼，將之死地，欲斷其命；乃至自捨身命，受諸苦毒。菩薩爾時語主者言：「我願捨身，以代彼命；如此等苦，可以與我。如彼人隨意皆作，設過彼苦阿僧祇倍，我亦當受，令其解脫。我若見彼，將被殺害，不捨身命，救贖其苦，則不名為住菩薩心。何以故？我為救護一切眾生，發一切智菩提心故。」』《正法念經》云：『造一所寺，不如救一人命。』墮藍本經，校量眾福，總不如慈心，愍傷一切蠢動、含識之類，其福最勝。 > Or undergoing execution in another's stead and ransoming offenses, one risks one's life to rescue others; or releasing prisoners from jail, one pardons punishments; or restoring banished travelers, one summons displaced people; or suspending border checkpoints, one relieves merchants' taxes; or giving relief to the poor and sick, one consoles the orphaned and solitary. Always dwelling with benevolence and forbearance in one's bosom, one constantly bears loving kindness in mind. Awake or dreaming, one does not forget the compassionate mind, extending even to wriggling and flying insects, universally shielding and protecting them all. The Avataṃsaka Sūtra says: 'Disciples of the Buddha, when a bodhisattva-mahāsattva sees a prisoner bound in five places, undergoing bitter suffering, driven and pressed by guards to the place of death to terminate his life, he even gives up his own body and life to endure various bitter sufferings. The bodhisattva at that time says to the person in charge: "I am willing to give up my body to take the place of his life; such sufferings may be given to me. Let whatever is done to him be done as you please; even if it exceeds his suffering by an asaṃkhyeya of times, I shall also endure it so that he may attain liberation. If, seeing him about to be killed, I do not give up my body and life to rescue him from his suffering, I cannot be called one who abides in the bodhisattva mind. Why is this? Because to rescue and protect all sentient beings, I have generated the bodhicitta of all-knowledge."' The Saddharmasmṛtyupasthāna Sūtra says: 'Building a monastery is not as good as saving a single person's life.' The Tuolanben Jing, weighing various merits, states that altogether none equals the compassionate mind pitying all crawling and conscious creatures; its merit is the most supreme. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2017.2.81) - [Next: 2.83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2017.2.83) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2017.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2017~en-mt.2.82) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2017.2.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2017.2.82) · Pramāṇa