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# 釋迦方志 1.75

釋迦方志 1.75

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [1.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2088.1.75)

阿輸陀國（中印度）周五千餘里都城周二十餘里。寺有百餘僧三千餘人。大小兼學。天祠有十異道少耳　城中故寺是伐蘇畔度菩薩（言世親也）數十年中作大小乘論處。城北五里殑伽岸。大寺中塔高二十餘丈。佛為天人三月於此說法。側有佛塔四佛行坐迹。寺西五里有佛髮爪塔。城西南五里。大菴沒羅林中故寺。是阿僧伽菩薩（云無著也）夜升天宮。於慈氏所受瑜伽莊嚴大乘經論及中邊等。曉為眾說。林西北百餘步佛髮爪塔。自此東行三百餘里。度殑伽北至。

> The kingdom of Ayodhyā (Central India) is more than five thousand li in circuit, and the capital is more than twenty li in circuit. Monasteries are more than a hundred, with more than three thousand monks, studying both the Great and Small \[Vehicles\]. There are ten deva temples, and tīrthikas are few. An old monastery inside the city is where Bodhisattva Vasubandhu (meaning "World's Kin") composed treatises on the Mahāyāna and Hīnayāna for several decades. Five li north of the city, on the bank of the Gaṅgā, a stūpa in a great monastery is more than two hundred feet high; here the Buddha preached the Dharma for three months for devas and humans. Beside it is a stūpa of the Buddha and the walking- and sitting-traces of the four buddhas. Five li west of the monastery is a stūpa for the Buddha's hair and nail relics. Five li southwest of the city, an old monastery in a great āmra grove is where Bodhisattva Asaṅga (meaning "Unattached") ascended to the heavenly palace at night to receive from Maitreya the Yogācāra\[-bhūmi\], the Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra, the Madhyāntavibhāga, and other sūtras and treatises, preaching them to the multitude at dawn. More than a hundred paces northwest of the grove is a stūpa for the Buddha's hair and nail relics. Travelling east from here for more than three hundred li and crossing the Gaṅgā to the north, one arrives at:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2088~en-mt.1.75) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.29.24) — 道世, Classical Chinese

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