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# 釋迦方志 2.114

釋迦方志 2.114

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [2.114](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2088.2.114)

案索訶世界一大劫中千佛出世。尋夫劫波之號不可以時數推之。假以方石芥城准為一期之候。中含四大中劫謂成住壞空也。

> According to tradition, in the Sahā-lokadhātu during one great kalpa, a thousand buddhas appear in the world. Investigating the designation of kalpa, it cannot be deduced by ordinary reckoning of time. A square stone or a city of mustard seeds is provisionally taken as the measure of a period. Within it are contained four great intermediate kalpas, namely formation, duration, destruction, and voidness.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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