[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) › [歷代三寶紀](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2034) › 14.2 # 歷代三寶紀 14.2 歷代三寶紀 14.2 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [14.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2034.14.2) 小乘錄者。聲聞藏也。教而辯佛。則王宮誕生襁褓扶持乳哺鞠養。乘羊車而詣學。試伎術而成婚。十九出家三十成道。四十九年處世說法。年七十九。於雙樹間右脇而臥入般涅槃。的而論法則是契經。或止九部。或十一部。四含雜藏及以毘曇。談人則名聲聞緣覺四果四向五方七便。剃除鬚髮捨俗出家。局在天人弗該餘趣。煩惱則五蓋十纏九十八使。所行則四聖諦十二因緣。檢攝七支防守三業。所受禁制則三歸十戒二百五十及五百戒。唯盡一形弗通後世。自調身口匪涉利他。入理水之淺深。譬兔馬之浮渡。出街衢之遊戲。駕羊鹿之卑車。洽露潤之少多。若中小之根葉。休疲怠之蘇息憩非真之化城。諸如此文皆小乘也。依四阿含生經出曜賢愚譬喻眾雜契經。或十行五行一紙半紙。首稱如是後唱奉行。諸此派分動成萬卷。世情逐末多競散抄。非唯損功深乖源本。但群錄注。其有流出別生之徒。如觀世音出妙法華。善時鵝王生正法念。今並不載。唯四部律僧尼戒心要略威儀羯磨雜法。世人盡習故備列之。其是經中離析行者。本部既具無假重羅。所益既微所煩處廣。粗計其省。紙出一萬經向二千。今之編收大部別卷。檢非流出者。總有五百二十五部。都合一千七百一十二卷。集為小乘入藏正目。房識淺見狷尋閱多遺。庶傳照法炬明賢。幸共除燼添油也。 > The Hīnayāna catalogue is the canon of the śrāvakas. As for the teachings that distinguish the Buddha, he was born in the royal palace, carried in swaddling clothes, nursed and raised. He rode a goat cart to go to study; he demonstrated his prowess in martial arts and married. At nineteen he went forth from home; at thirty he realized the Way. For forty-nine years he dwelt in the world preaching the Dharma. At the age of seventy-nine, he lay down on his right side between the twin trees and entered parinirvāṇa. To discuss its teachings strictly, they are the sūtras, either limited to nine divisions or eleven divisions, the four Āgamas, the miscellaneous canon, and the Abhidharma. When speaking of persons, they are called śrāvakas, pratyekabuddhas, the four fruits and four directions, and the five faculties and seven expedients. They shave hair and beard, renounce the worldly life and go forth from home, restricted only to gods and humans, not extending to the other destinies. As for their defilements, they are the five hindrances, ten entanglements, and ninety-eight dormant afflictions. As for what they practice, they are the four noble truths and the twelve links of dependent origination. They restrain the seven limbs \[of bodily and vocal karma\] and guard the three types of karma. As for the prohibitions they receive, they are the three refuges, the ten precepts, and the two hundred fifty and five hundred precepts. These only endure for a single lifetime and do not extend to future existences. They tame their own body and speech, not involving the benefiting of others. The depth to which they enter the water of principle is likened to the swimming across of the hare and the horse. Their roaming out into the thoroughfares is riding the humble carriages of sheep and deer. The amount of moisture they receive from the dew is like that of small and middling roots and leaves. Their resting from exhaustion is taking a respite in an unreal illusory city. All such texts are Hīnayāna. Depending on the four Āgamas, the Jātaka-sūtras, the Avadāna-sūtras, the Wise and Foolish, parables, and various miscellaneous sūtras, there are texts of ten lines, five lines, a single sheet, or half a sheet, beginning with 'Thus' and concluding with 'undertook and practiced.' These branches and divisions readily amount to tens of thousands of fascicles. The worldly mind pursues trivialities and mostly competes in making scattered excerpts. This not only wastes effort, but deeply deviates from the source. However, as for those excerpted and separately produced works noted in various catalogues—such as the Guanyin \[Sūtra\] extracted from the Lotus Sūtra, or the Good-Time Goose King extracted from the Saddharmasmṛtyupasthāna Sūtra—they are now entirely excluded. Only the vinayas of the four schools, the essentials of the monk and nun prātimokṣas, minor rules of conduct, karmavācanā, and miscellaneous regulations are fully listed because people in the world all practice them. Those that are detached from within sūtras need not be duplicated since their source texts are already complete. The benefit would be slight while the clutter would be extensive. By a rough estimate of what is saved, it exceeds ten thousand sheets of paper and approaches two thousand sūtras. Now, compiling and collecting the separate fascicles of major works and verifying those that are not secondary excerpts, there are 525 works in total, amounting to 1,712 fascicles altogether, gathered as the definitive entries of the Hīnayāna into the canon. I, Zhangfang, have shallow understanding and narrow learning, and my searches and readings have left many omissions. I hope that the wise and virtuous who pass on the torch of the Dharma will kindly join together in clearing away the ashes and adding oil. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 14.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2034.14.1) - [Next: 14.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2034.14.3) - [Up: 14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2034.14) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2034~en-mt.14.2) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2034.14.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2034.14.2) · Pramāṇa