[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) › 3.102 # 佛祖統紀 3.102 佛祖統紀 3.102 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.102](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.3.102) 十五年（甲午）佛再還迦毘羅國。為父王說法。度釋種八萬四千人得須陀洹果（十二遊經）佛還本土。足升空行。與人頭齊。使父王接足而已。不欲屈身（分別功德經○此即使父母反敬。為生福之證。然在佛則可。若末代比丘。為行稍薄。恐未可以受父母之致敬）佛為父王大眾說觀佛三昧。佛身金色光明無量。時五百釋子以罪障故。見佛色身猶如灰色羸婆羅門。佛為說往昔邪見之罪。今稱佛名作禮懺悔。即見佛身金色如須彌山。求佛出家得阿羅漢（觀佛三昧經）初佛還國。大愛道求出家（佛姨母摩訶波闍波提也）再三不許。佛再還國復求出家。如前不許。阿難白佛。大愛道至心欲受法律。願佛聽之。佛令盡形壽行八敬法。時大愛道得出家。為比丘尼始（中本起經）比丘尼受八敬法。一者百歲比丘尼。禮初夏比丘足。二者不得罵謗比丘。三者不得舉比丘過。比丘得說尼過。四式叉摩那。應從眾僧求受大戒。五者尼犯僧殘。應半月在二部僧中。求教授人。七者不應在無比丘處坐夏安居（四分律）佛告阿難。我滅度後。正法一千年。由女人出家減五百年。後為說八敬法。還得一千年（善見論法住記）。 > In the fifteenth year (jiawu), the Buddha returned again to Kapilavastu. He preached the Dharma for his father the king and delivered eighty-four thousand Śākyas to attain the fruit of srotāpanna (Sūtra of Twelve Years' Wandering). When the Buddha returned to his native land, his feet rose and walked in the air level with people's heads, only allowing his father the king to receive his feet without wishing him to bend down his body (Sūtra on the Differentiation of Merits; this is proof that making one's parents reverse their respect produces merit. Yet this is acceptable for the Buddha; if monks in the degenerate age, having rather shallow practices, \[attempted this\], one fears they could not properly receive their parents' veneration). The Buddha preached the samādhi of contemplating the Buddha for his father the king and the great assembly. The Buddha's body was golden in color, emitting boundless radiance. At that time, five hundred Śākya youths, on account of their sinful obstacles, saw the Buddha's physical body as an ashen, emaciated brāhmaṇa. The Buddha preached to them the sins of their past wrong views. Now chanting the Buddha's name and bowing down in repentance, they immediately saw the Buddha's body golden like Mount Sumeru; requesting the Buddha to leave the household, they attained arhatship (Sūtra on the Contemplation of the Buddha Samādhi). Initially, when the Buddha returned to his country, Mahāprajāpatī sought to leave the household (the Buddha's maternal aunt, Mahāprajāpatī). Three times he refused. When the Buddha returned to the country again, she sought to leave the household once more, and was refused as before. Ānanda addressed the Buddha: 'Mahāprajāpatī sincerely desires to receive the Dharma and Vinaya. We pray that the Buddha permit it.' The Buddha instructed her to practice the Eight Rules of Respect for the rest of her life. Thereupon Mahāprajāpatī was permitted to leave the household, marking the beginning of the bhikṣuṇīs (Middle Sūtra of Past Origins). A bhikṣuṇī receives the Eight Rules of Respect: First, a bhikṣuṇī of one hundred years must pay homage at the feet of a bhikṣu of the first summer retreat; second, she must not revile or slander a bhikṣu; third, she must not raise the faults of a bhikṣu, while a bhikṣu may speak of a bhikṣuṇī's faults; fourth, a śikṣamāṇā must seek the full precepts from the saṅgha of monks; fifth, a bhikṣuṇī who commits a saṅghāvaśeṣa must \[undergo penance\] for half a month before both assemblies of the saṅgha; \[sixth, every half-month she must\] seek an instructor \[among the monks\]; seventh, she must not observe the summer rain-retreat in a place where there is no bhikṣu (Four-Part Vinaya). The Buddha told Ānanda: 'After my parinirvāṇa, the True Dharma would have lasted one thousand years. Because women have left the household, it is diminished by five hundred years. Having subsequently preached the Eight Rules of Respect, it will recover the one thousand years' (Samantapāsādikā, Record of the Duration of the Dharma). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.101](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.3.101) - [Next: 3.103](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.3.103) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035~en-mt.3.102) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.3.102](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.3.102) · Pramāṇa