佛祖統紀 33.19

33.19

供佛　諸如來者。皆是法身。若在世若滅後。所有供養福無有異（寶積經）供養佛者。得大福德速成菩提（不思議境界經）若施畜生得百倍報。施破戒者得千倍報。施持戒者。得萬倍報。乃至施佛得無量報。我今分別諸福田故作是說（優婆塞戒經此言敬田勝）若人供養十方佛諸菩薩聲聞。不如有人施畜生一口飲食。乃至施餓狗蟻子。悲田最勝（像法決疑經此言悲田勝）一分施難勝如來。一分與最下乞人。福田無二（維摩經此言悲敬不二）世言供三千佛者。過去莊嚴劫。始華光佛終毘舍浮佛。一千佛。現在賢劫。始拘留孫佛終樓至佛。一千佛。未來星宿劫。始日光佛終須彌相佛。一千佛（三劫各有經一卷）言供千佛者。現在賢劫千尊也。

Making Offerings to the Buddha: All Tathāgatas are the Dharmakāya. Whether they are in the world or after their extinction, the merit of any offerings made is without distinction (from the *Ratnakūṭa Sūtra*). Those who make offerings to the Buddha obtain great merit and swiftly accomplish bodhi (from the *Inconceivable Realm Sūtra*). 'If one gives to an animal, one obtains a hundredfold reward; giving to one who breaks the precepts yields a thousandfold reward; giving to one who maintains the precepts yields a ten-thousandfold reward; up to making offerings to a Buddha, which yields an immeasurable reward. I now explain this because of distinguishing among the various fields of merit' (from the *Upāsakaśīla Sūtra*; this refers to the preeminence of the field of reverence). If someone makes offerings to the Buddhas of the ten directions and the various bodhisattvas and śrāvakas, it is not equal to someone giving a mouthful of food or drink to an animal, or even to a starving dog or an ant; the field of compassion is supreme (from the *Sūtra on Resolving Doubts in the Semblance Dharma*; this refers to the preeminence of the field of compassion). Giving one portion to the Tathāgata Duṣpradharsa and giving one portion to the lowliest beggar, the fields of merit are not two (from the *Vimalakīrti Sūtra*; this refers to the non-duality of compassion and reverence). What the world refers to as making offerings to the three thousand Buddhas denotes: in the past Glorious Kalpa, beginning with Padmaprabha Buddha and ending with Vipaśyin Buddha, one thousand Buddhas; in the present Auspicious Kalpa, beginning with Krakucchanda Buddha and ending with Ruci Buddha, one thousand Buddhas; in the future Constellation Kalpa, beginning with Sūryaprabha Buddha and ending with Sumerumūrti Buddha, one thousand Buddhas (each of the three kalpas has a one-scroll sūtra). Making offerings to the thousand Buddhas refers to the thousand honored ones of the present Auspicious Kalpa.