[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) › [傳法正宗記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2078) › 2.10 # 傳法正宗記 2.10 傳法正宗記 2.10 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2078.2.10) 尋作禮大眾。乃升法座而曰。如是我聞一時佛在某處說某經教。乃至天人等信受奉行。是時大迦葉復問眾曰。阿難所言其錯謬乎。皆曰。無異世尊之所說者也。乃大迦葉將入定於雞足山。乃以如來所授正法眼付之。尊者使其傳之勿絕。自是以法遊化諸方。一日尊者至一竹林之間。初聞比丘有誤誦偈曰。若人生百歲。不見水老鶴。不如生一日。而得覩見之。尊者因之歎息曰。如來乃世正法之眼何速寂滅。使此群生失所依止。而迷謬聖教。乃語其人曰。是非佛意。不可依之。汝應聽我演正偈云。若人生百歲。不解生滅法。不如生一日。而得解了之。是比丘乃以聞其師。師反謂阿難衰老。其言謬妄。豈宜信乎。汝可如前誦之。尊者他日復聞誦其前偈。問其何以然。而不從所教。是比丘者遂說其師之意。尊者以其不重自語。而益感之。因入三昧。欲求尊聖為之證者。然終不能得。於是念之。佛與眾聖皆已涅槃。必何從而明之。當是時也地為之動。少頃光明遽發。俄然有一聖宿大士示現。為其說偈。而證之曰。 > Soon after, he made obeisance to the great assembly, mounted the Dharma seat, and said, 'Thus have I heard: At one time the Buddha was at such-and-such a place, preaching such-and-such a sūtra teaching, down to devas and humans faithfully accepting and upholding it.' At that time Mahākāśyapa asked the assembly again, 'Is what Ānanda said mistaken?' They all said, 'It is no different from what the World-Honoured One preached.' When Mahākāśyapa was about to enter meditative absorption on Mount Kukkuṭapāda, he entrusted to him the eye of the True Dharma conferred by the Tathāgata, bidding the Venerable One transmit it without letting it be severed. From then on, he traveled and transformed various regions through the Dharma. One day, the Venerable One arrived in a bamboo grove and initially heard a monk erroneously reciting a verse: 'If a person lives for a hundred years / Without seeing a water crane, / It is not as good as living for a single day / And being able to behold it.' The Venerable One sighed at this, saying, 'The Tathāgata is the eye of the world's True Dharma; why has he passed into extinction so quickly, causing these living beings to lose their reliance and become confused about the sacred teachings?' He then said to that person, 'This is not the Buddha's intent; you must not rely upon it. You should listen to me expound the correct verse: 'If a person lives for a hundred years / Without understanding the dharma of arising and ceasing, / It is not as good as living for a single day / And being able to understand it.'' That monk reported this to his master, but the master on the contrary said that Ānanda was frail and old, and his words were erroneous and absurd—how could one believe them? 'You may recite it as before.' When the Venerable One on another day heard him reciting his former verse again, he asked him why it was so and why he did not follow what he had taught. That monk then related his master's view. The Venerable One, because they did not value his own words, was all the more deeply moved; thereupon he entered samādhi, wishing to seek a venerable sage to bear witness to it, yet in the end he could find none. Thereupon he reflected: 'The Buddha and all the sages have already entered nirvāṇa; whence can I clarify it?' At that very moment the earth quaked; shortly after, a light suddenly radiated forth, and suddenly a senior noble mahāsattva manifested, expounding a verse for them and bearing witness, saying: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2078.2.9) - [Next: 2.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2078.2.11) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2078.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2078~en-mt.2.10) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [佛祖統紀](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.5.8) — 志磐, Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2078.2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2078.2.10) · Pramāṇa