[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) › 33.31 # 佛祖統紀 33.31 佛祖統紀 33.31 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [33.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.33.31) 七七齋　人死中有身若未得生緣。極七日住。死而復生。如是展轉生死至七七日。決定得生。若有生緣即不定。今尋經旨。極善惡無中有（瑜伽論○中有亦名中陰。極善即生淨土。其次生人天。極惡即入地獄或生三惡道。即日死亡不經中陰）今人亡每七日必營齋追福。謂之齋七者。令中有種子不轉生惡趣也（釋氏要覽）。 > The Seven-Seven Retreat: When a person dies, their intermediate existence (antarābhava) body, if it has not yet obtained the conditions for rebirth, abides for at most seven days. It dies and is reborn again, in this way cycling through birth and death up to forty-nine days, after which it definitively attains rebirth. If conditions for rebirth appear earlier, \[the time\] is indefinite. Now, examining the scriptural meaning, those of extreme good or evil have no intermediate existence (Yogācāra-bhūmi-śāstra: Intermediate existence is also called the intermediate state \[zhongyin\]. The extremely good are immediately born in the Pure Land, and next to that, born among humans or gods. The extremely evil immediately enter the hells or are born in the three evil destinies, dying on the very day without passing through the intermediate state). Nowadays, whenever someone dies, people unfailingly prepare a retreat every seven days to pursue merits on their behalf; this is called 'retreat sevens' so that the seeds in the intermediate existence do not turn to rebirth in evil destinies (Shishi yaolan). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 33.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.33.30) - [Next: 33.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.33.32) - [Up: 33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.33) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035~en-mt.33.31) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.33.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.33.31) · Pramāṇa