[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) › 4.4 # 佛祖統紀 4.4 佛祖統紀 4.4 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.4.4) 序曰。如來所說一代法門。其意在乎開顯大事因緣而已。及乎人機既得大益。則又為之說云。所應度者皆已度畢。於是唱入滅度。以示化儀之有始卒。將以起懈怠者之慕心以垂訓未來之人爾。至曰我不滅度常在靈山。斯則如來不生不滅大般涅槃之旨。 > The preface states: The teachings of the single lifetime preached by the Tathāgata had as their intent nothing other than to open and reveal the one great cause and condition. When the capacities of people had already received the great benefit, he further stated for them: 'Those who should be saved have all already been saved.' Thereupon he proclaimed his entry into extinction, in order to display that the ritual of transformation has a beginning and an end, intending to arouse the longing mind of the negligent and to bequeath instructions to people of the future. When it comes to the saying, 'I do not enter extinction, but constantly abide on the Vulture Peak,' this is the import of the Tathāgata’s great parinirvāṇa of neither birth nor death. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.4.3) - [Next: 4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.4.5) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035~en-mt.4.4) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.4.4) · Pramāṇa