[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) › 7.163 # 歷代三寶紀 7.163 歷代三寶紀 7.163 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [7.163](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2034.7.163) 右六部合二十四卷。平陽沙門釋法顯。以安帝隆安三年發趾長安。遊歷天竺遠尋靈跡。求晉所無眾經律論。經涉諸國學梵書語。自手抄寫前件梵本。從北之南。次師子國中有佛齒。每年三月。彼之國王預前十日。莊嚴白象遣一貴重辯說智臣著王衣裳。象上擊鼓大聲唱言。如來在世四十九年。說法度人無量億數。眾生緣盡乃般泥洹。自爾已來一千四百九十七載。世間長昏眾生可愍。却後十日佛齒當出無畏精舍。可辦香華各來供養。時正當晉義熈元年。顯還汎海達到楊都。於道場寺譯經戒論。別傳備委所履歷云。計從義熙元年太歲乙巳至今開皇十七年歲次丁巳。便成一千六百八十一載矣。 > The above six works, totaling twenty-four fascicles. The śramaṇa Shi Faxian of Pingyang set out from Chang'an in the third year of Long'an of Emperor An, traveled across India to seek sacred traces from afar, and searched for the sūtras, vinayas, and treatises that the Jin lacked. Passing through various countries, he learned the Indic scripts and language, and copied the aforementioned Indic texts by his own hand. Traveling from the north to the south, he next arrived at the country of Siṃhala, where there was a tooth of the Buddha. Every year in the third month, the king of that country, ten days in advance, would adorn a white elephant and dispatch a noble, eloquent, and wise minister dressed in royal attire, who beat a drum atop the elephant and proclaimed with a loud voice: 'The Tathāgata remained in the world for forty-nine years, preaching the Dharma and liberating immeasurable hundreds of millions of people. When the karmic affinity of sentient beings was exhausted, he entered parinirvāṇa. Since then, one thousand four hundred and ninety-seven years have passed. The world has long been in darkness, and sentient beings are pitiable! Ten days from now, the Buddha's tooth will be brought forth to the Abhayagiri Vihāra; all may prepare incense and flowers and come to make offerings!' At that time, it corresponded exactly to the first year of Yixi of the Jin. Faxian returned by sea and reached Yangdu, where he translated sūtras, precepts, and treatises at Daochang Monastery. A separate biography details the full record of his journeys. Counting from the first year of Yixi, the cyclical year yisi, up to the present seventeenth year of Kaihuang, the cyclical year dingsi, it amounts to one thousand six hundred and eighty-one years. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 7.162](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2034.7.162) - [Next: 7.164](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2034.7.164) - [Up: 7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2034.7) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2034~en-mt.7.163) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [貞元新定釋教目錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2157.5.22.6) — 圓照, Classical Chinese - [開元釋教錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2154.3.7.6) — 智昇, Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2034.7.163](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2034.7.163) · Pramāṇa