[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) › [佛祖統紀](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035) › 1.88 # 佛祖統紀 1.88 佛祖統紀 1.88 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.88](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.1.88) 按因果經云。過去無數阿僧祇劫。有仙人善思（瑞應本行二經並名儒童）時燈照王太子普光（瑞應名定光。法華金剛本行諸經。並名然燈）啟父出家。成菩提道。善慧初為五百外道講論道義。各以銀錢上之。與外道別。當往普光佛所欲施供養。見王家青衣持七莖青蓮花過。追問此花賣否。答言。當送宮內欲以上佛。善惠請以五百銀錢。顧五莖花。用以供佛。青衣從命。并寄二花。以獻於佛。願我後來。常為君妻。時王及大臣。禮佛散花。悉墮於地。善惠五花。皆住空中。化成花臺。後散二花。住佛兩邊。佛讚善惠。汝過阿僧祇劫。當得成佛。號釋迦牟尼（此經。與本行經。並作阿僧祇而瑞應作九十一劫。如此延促不同。雖是方便分別。然諸經並以毘婆尸記九十一劫為正。則瑞應所出。亦可為用）善慧。見地濁濕。心自念言。云何令千輻輪足蹈此而過。即脫鹿皮衣以用布地不足掩泥。又解髮以覆之。如來踐已。因記之曰。汝後得佛。當於五濁惡世度諸天人。時善惠。以偈讚佛（文多不載）求佛出家。佛言善來比丘。須髮自落袈裟著身。即成沙門。善惠命終之後。上生為四天王。下生為轉輪王。乃至上生為第七梵天王。下生為聖王。各三十六返。或為仙人。或為外道六師婆羅門小王。各盡其壽。不可稱數。時善惠者。即我身是。青衣者。邪輸陀羅是（因果經○案瑞應經稱瞿夷賣花女者。取第一夫人為言也。若本經與法華皆云邪輸者。取羅睺生母也。今以後義為正）四教儀引大論云。如來修菩薩道時。從古釋迦至尸棄佛。值七萬五千佛。名初阿僧祇。常修六度。次從尸棄至然燈。值七萬六千佛。名二阿僧祇。此時用七莖蓮華供養。布髮掩泥受記號釋迦文。次從然燈至毘婆尸佛。值七萬七千佛。名三阿僧祇滿。經如許時。修六度行。更住百劫。種相好因。修百福成一相（按優婆塞戒經。我於釋迦最初發心。於迦葉佛。滿三阿僧祇。竊詳三祇滿時。正在毘婆尸。今言迦葉者。兼百劫種相好言之也）。 > According to the \*Sūtra on Cause and Effect\*: Incalculable asaṃkhyeya kalpas in the past, there was a sage named Shansi (both the \*Ruiying\* and \*Benxing\* sūtras name him the Youth Māṇava). At that time, Prince Prabhāpāla (the \*Ruiying\* names him Dīpaṅkara; the \*Lotus\*, \*Diamond\*, and \*Benxing\* sūtras all name him Dīpaṅkara) of King Dīpāvatī requested his father's permission to leave the household life and attain the way of bodhi. Sumati had initially lectured on doctrinal principles for five hundred non-Buddhists, and each offered him a silver coin. Taking leave of the non-Buddhists, when he was on his way to the place of the Buddha Prabhāpāla wishing to present offerings, he saw a maidservant of the royal palace passing by holding seven stems of blue lotus flowers. He caught up with her and asked if these flowers were for sale. She answered, "They are to be sent into the palace to be offered to the Buddha." Sumati requested to hire five stems of the flowers with five hundred silver coins to use as an offering to the Buddha. The maidservant complied, and also entrusted him with two flowers to offer to the Buddha, making the vow: "May I, in future lives, always be your wife." At that time, when the king and great ministers bowed to the Buddha and scattered flowers, all fell to the ground. Sumati's five flowers all remained suspended in mid-air, transforming into a flower dais. The two flowers scattered later remained on either side of the Buddha. The Buddha praised Sumati: "After asaṃkhyeya kalpas, you shall become a Buddha, named Śākyamuni." (Both this sūtra and the \*Benxing jing\* give 'asaṃkhyeya', whereas the \*Ruiying\* gives 'ninety-one kalpas'. Such differences in length, though provisional distinctions, yet because the various sūtras all regard Vipaśyin's prophecy of ninety-one kalpas as definitive, that which is set forth in the \*Ruiying\* may also be applied.) Sumati, seeing that the ground was muddy and wet, thought to himself: "How could one allow these feet with thousand-spoked wheels to tread through this?" Thereupon he removed his deerskin garment to spread upon the ground, but it was insufficient to cover the mud. He then loosened his hair to cover it. After the Tathāgata stepped on it, he accordingly gave him the prophecy, saying: "When you attain Buddhahood in the future, you shall deliver heavenly and human beings in the evil world of the five turbidities." At that time, Sumati praised the Buddha with gāthās (omitted because the text is extensive) and sought to leave the household under the Buddha. The Buddha said: "Welcome, bhikṣu!" His beard and hair naturally fell away, a kāṣāya covered his body, and he immediately became a śramaṇa. After Sumati's life ended, he was reborn above as a Cāturmahārājakāyika king and below as a cakravartin; up to being reborn above as the king of the seventh Brahmā Heaven and below as a holy king, thirty-six times each. Sometimes he was a sage, or one of the six non-Buddhist teachers, a brāhmaṇa, or a minor king, living out his lifespan in each, beyond reckoning. That Sumati was my very self; the maidservant was Yaśodharā. (From the \*Sūtra on Cause and Effect\*. Note: The \*Ruiying jing\* refers to her as the flower-selling woman Gopī, speaking in terms of the primary consort. If both this sūtra and the \*Lotus\* say Yaśodharā, they speak in terms of Rāhula's birth mother. We now take the latter sense as definitive.) The \*Sijiao yi\* quotes the \*Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa\*, saying: When the Tathāgata cultivated the bodhisattva path, from the ancient Śākyamuni down to Śikhin Buddha, he encountered seventy-five thousand Buddhas; this is called the first asaṃkhyeya, during which he constantly cultivated the six perfections. Next, from Śikhin to Dīpaṅkara, he encountered seventy-six thousand Buddhas; this is called the second asaṃkhyeya. At this time, he used seven stems of lotus flowers as an offering and spread his hair to cover the mud, receiving the prophecy with the name Śākyamuni. Next, from Dīpaṅkara down to Vipaśyin Buddha, he encountered seventy-seven thousand Buddhas; this is called the completion of the third asaṃkhyeya. Passing through such time, cultivating the practice of the six perfections, he further remained for a hundred kalpas to plant the causes for the primary and secondary physical marks, cultivating a hundred merits to accomplish a single mark. (According to the \*Upāsaka-śīla-sūtra\*: "I first generated the mind \[for enlightenment\] under Śākyamuni, and completed the three asaṃkhyeyas under Kāśyapa Buddha." In my humble examination, the completion of the three asaṃkhyeyas was precisely under Vipaśyin; mentioning Kāśyapa now is spoken inclusive of the hundred kalpas of planting the primary and secondary marks.) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.87](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.1.87) - [Next: 1.89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.1.89) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035~en-mt.1.88) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [過去現在因果經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.atitapratyutpannahetuphalasutra*zh-gunabhadra.1.16) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.1.88](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.1.88) · Pramāṇa