佛祖統紀 30.41

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第十小劫（減增）減至八萬歲時。第五彌勒佛出世。時閻浮提其地平正如琉璃境。叢林茂盛高三十里。八萬四千眾寶小城周遍天下。其中大城名翅頭末。七寶樓閣七重行樹。園林浴池八功德水。街巷道陌廣十二里。其土安隱無有怨賊劫竊水火刃兵飢饉之難。有明珠柱高十二里。光明逾日晝夜常照。香風時來吹珠柱上雨寶瓔珞。眾人取之以為服用。眾寶羅網彌覆城上。風吹寶鈴演說歸依佛法僧。人身長十六丈。壽命滿八萬歲。無有中夭。女人五百歲方嫁。日受妙樂深遊禪定。如三禪天。人常慈心恭敬和順。皆由彌勒慈心訓導。持不殺故。唯有三病。一者飲食。二者便利。三者衰老。有香美稻一種七穫。百味具足入口消化。便利之時地裂生赤蓮華以蔽穢氣。人民既老自然行詣樹下。念佛待盡。生大梵天及諸佛前。有轉輪聖王名曰儴佉。七寶千子。四大寶藏滿中珍寶。眾人見之心不不貪著。各各謂言。釋迦佛時往昔眾生為此寶故更相偷劫造生死罪。時彌勒菩薩於兜率天宮當下作佛。生大婆羅門家。父名修梵摩。母名梵摩跋提。下生託胎。身紫金色三十二相。坐寶蓮華光明無量。身長三十二丈。如黃金山。正念觀察苦空無常不樂在家。時儴佉王持七寶臺奉上。彌勒受已施諸婆羅門。即便毀壞各共分之。彌勒見此寶臺須臾無常。知有為法皆悉磨滅。修無常想。讚過去佛無常之偈。諸行無常是生滅法生滅滅已寂滅為樂。說此偈已出家學道。詣翅頭末城外金剛莊嚴道場龍華菩提樹下（枝如寶龍吐百寶華。故名龍華）即於是日初夜降魔成道。釋梵四天請轉法輪。時儴佉王與八萬大臣俱求出家。須𩬊自落即成沙門。時彌勒佛與儴佉王等諸比丘僧天龍八部。入翅頭末城中央。其地過去諸佛所坐金剛寶座。自然涌出。佛於此座轉正法輪。時諸婆羅門長者須達那。今須達長者是。轉輪王寶女（即玉女寶）舍彌婆帝。今毘舍佉母是。彌勒親族須摩提。今善賢比丘尼是。各與八萬四千人出家學道。時儴佉王千子俱求出家。唯留一子用嗣王位。彌勒世尊初會於金剛座上說法。九十六億人得阿羅漢。二會於城外華林園說法。九十四億人得阿羅漢。三會復在華林園說法。九十二億人得阿羅漢（西域記。波羅柰國彌勒受記成佛處。佛告彌勒。三會說法。其得度者。皆我遺法植福眾生。在家出家。持戒犯戒。皆蒙化導。證果解脫。三會之度。乃化同緣善友）是時彌勒與無量人。登耆闍崛山頂。手擘山峯。摩訶迦葉即從定起。持佛僧伽梨衣授與彌勒。涌身虛空作十八變入般涅槃。收身舍利山頂起塔。彌勒佛住世六萬歲。入滅之後。諸天世人收取舍利。於四天下各起八萬四千寶塔。正法住世六萬歲。像法亦六萬歲（雜出彌勒下生經彌勒來時經。彌勒成佛經。賢愚經○菩薩處胎經去彌勒世有五十六億七千萬歲。處處經五十億七千六十萬歲。彌勒下生經。上生經。並云五十六億萬歲。莊椿錄。自佛滅取彌勒生。有八百八十萬九千二百年。諸說不同。未曾校算）。

The tenth small kalpa (decreasing and increasing). When [lifespan] decreases to eighty thousand years, the fifth buddha, Maitreya, will appear in the world. At that time, the ground of Jambudvīpa will be level and even like a vaiḍūrya mirror. Woods and groves will flourish to a height of thirty li. Eighty-four thousand small cities made of various gems will cover the world. The great city among them will be named Ketumatī, with pavilions of the seven treasures, sevenfold rows of trees, gardens, groves, and bathing ponds filled with water of eight virtues. Its streets and thoroughfares will be twelve li wide. That land will be secure and peaceful, free from the afflictions of bandits, thieves, floods, fires, weapons, and famine. There will be a bright pearl pillar twelve li high, its radiance surpassing the sun and shining constantly day and night. Fragrant breezes will blow from time to time upon the pearl pillar, raining down precious necklaces, which the people will take for adornment. Nets of diverse jewels will cover the city, and when the wind blows upon the jewelled bells, they will proclaim refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Saṅgha. Human bodies will be sixteen zhang tall, and their lifespan will reach eighty thousand years with no premature deaths. Women will marry only at five hundred years of age. Daily they will experience wonderful pleasures and wander deeply in dhyāna, like the gods of the Third Dhyāna Heaven. People will always have compassionate minds, reverent and harmonious, all because Maitreya instructs them with a compassionate heart and they uphold the precept of not killing. There will be only three ailments: first, eating and drinking; second, bodily evacuations; third, aging. There will be a fragrant and delicious rice that yields seven harvests from a single planting, complete with the hundred flavours, digesting as soon as it enters the mouth. At the time of evacuation, the earth will cleave and produce red lotus flowers to cover the foul odours. When people grow old, they will spontaneously walk beneath the trees, recollecting the Buddha and awaiting their end, to be reborn in the Great Brahmā Heaven or before the buddhas. There will be a wheel-turning holy king named Śaṅkha, endowed with the seven treasures and a thousand sons; four great treasuries of jewels will be filled with precious items. When the multitude sees them, their minds will harbour no greed or attachment, and each will say: "In the time of Śākyamuni Buddha, ancient beings stole and robbed from one another for the sake of these treasures, creating offenses leading to birth and death." At that time, Maitreya Bodhisattva in the Tuṣita heaven palace will be about to descend to become a buddha. He will be born into a great brāhmaṇa family; his father's name will be Subrahma and his mother's name will be Brahmavatī. Descending and entering the womb, his body will be purple-golden with the thirty-two marks, sitting on a precious lotus with immeasurable light. His body will be thirty-two zhang tall, like a mountain of yellow gold. Contemplating with right mindfulness suffering, emptiness, and impermanence, he will take no pleasure in the household life. At that time, King Śaṅkha will offer a terrace of seven treasures. Having accepted it, Maitreya will bestow it on the brāhmaṇas, who will immediately tear it apart and divide it among themselves. Seeing this precious terrace destroyed in an instant, Maitreya will realize that conditioned phenomena are all subject to obliteration; cultivating the contemplation of impermanence, he will praise the impermanence verse of past buddhas: / All conditioned phenomena are impermanent, / This is the law of arising and ceasing; / When arising and ceasing have ceased, / Extinction is bliss. / Having spoken this verse, he will go forth from the household life to learn the Path, proceeding outside the city of Ketumatī to the Diamond Adorned Bodhimaṇḍa under the Dragon Flower Bodhi Tree (its branches are like jewelled dragons disgorging hundreds of precious flowers, hence the name Dragon Flower). On that very day in the initial watch of the night, he will subjugate Māra and attain the Path. Śakra, Brahmā, and the Four Heavenly Kings will entreat him to turn the wheel of the Dharma. King Śaṅkha together with eighty thousand ministers will all request to go forth; their beards and hair will fall away spontaneously, and they will become śramaṇas. At that time, Maitreya Buddha, along with King Śaṅkha and the other monks and the eight classes of devas and nāgas, will enter the center of the city of Ketumatī. In that place, the diamond jewel throne upon which past buddhas sat will spontaneously well forth from the earth, and the Buddha will turn the wheel of the true Dharma from this throne. The brāhmaṇa elder Sudatta of that time will be the present elder Anāthapiṇḍada; the wheel-turning king's precious woman (that is, the jade-woman treasure) Śyāmāvatī will be the present mother of Viśākhā; and Maitreya's relative Sumati will be the present bhikṣuṇī Bhadrā. Each along with eighty-four thousand people will go forth to learn the Path. At that time, the thousand sons of King Śaṅkha will all request to go forth, leaving only one son behind to succeed to the throne. At the first assembly, the World-Honoured Maitreya will preach the Dharma upon the diamond throne, and ninety-six billion people will attain arhatship. At the second assembly, he will preach the Dharma in the Flower Grove Park outside the city, and ninety-four billion people will attain arhatship. At the third assembly, he will preach the Dharma again in the Flower Grove Park, and ninety-two billion people will attain arhatship (The Record of the Western Regions notes: At the place in the country of Vārāṇasī where Maitreya received the prophecy of becoming a buddha, the Buddha told Maitreya, "Those liberated at the three assemblies of preaching the Dharma are all sentient beings who planted merit in my bequeathed Dharma. Household and renunciant, those upholding precepts and those breaking precepts, all will receive conversion and guidance, realizing the fruit and attaining liberation. The liberation of the three assemblies is indeed the conversion of good friends with shared affinity"). At that time, Maitreya together with immeasurable people will ascend to the summit of Mount Gṛdhrakūṭa and split open the mountain peak with his hand. Mahākāśyapa will immediately rise from samādhi, take the saṃghāṭī robe of the Buddha, and present it to Maitreya. Leaping into the air, he will perform eighteen transformations and enter parinirvāṇa. They will collect his bodily relics and erect a stūpa on the mountain summit. Maitreya Buddha will dwell in the world for sixty thousand years. After he enters extinction, gods and humans will collect his relics and erect eighty-four thousand jewel stūpas in each of the four under-heavens. The true Dharma will abide in the world for sixty thousand years, and the semblance Dharma will also abide for sixty thousand years (Drawn collectively from the Scripture on the Descent of Maitreya, the Scripture on the Coming of Maitreya, the Scripture on Maitreya Attaining Buddhahood, and the Scripture of the Wise and the Foolish. Note: The Scripture on the Bodhisattva in the Womb says there are 5,670,000,000 years until Maitreya's time. The Scripture of Various Places says 5,070,600,000 years. The Scripture on Maitreya's Descent and the Scripture on Maitreya's Ascent both say 560,000,000 years. The Zhuangchun lu says that from the Buddha's extinction to Maitreya's birth is 8,809,200 years. The various accounts differ and have not been harmonised through calculation).