[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) › [廣弘明集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103) › 9.69 # 廣弘明集 9.69 廣弘明集 9.69 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [9.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.9.69) 臣笑曰。案瞿曇者。即釋迦也。化胡經云。周莊本初三年太歲丙辰。白淨王子既得正覺。號佛釋迦。老子見其去世恐人懈怠。復下多羅聚落。號曰迦葉。親近於佛。焚屍取骨。起塔分布。若如上文。釋迦未生。不得預遣瞿曇往東土也。如其已生成佛者。中間無容。得受迦葉之約勅充千年之使乎。豈有菩薩親侍於佛而勅佛為使乎。又周莊一政。止有一十五年。元年乙酉全無丙辰。本初之號何謬如斯。足令掩耳。亦使太上蹋地而瞋乎。 > Your subject laughs and says: Examining ‘Gautama’, this refers to Śākya. The Scripture of Converting the Barbarians says that in the third year of the Benchuxin era of King Zhuang of Zhou, the cyclical year bingchen, the Crown Prince of Śuddhodana, having attained true awakening, was titled the Buddha Śākya. Laozi, seeing that he had departed the world and fearing that people would become remiss, descended again to the village of Tala, where he was named Kāśyapa, attended closely upon the Buddha, cremated his corpse to collect the relics, and erected stūpas to distribute them. If it were as the above text says, before Śākya was even born, Gautama could not have been dispatched in advance to the Eastern Land. If he had already been born and become a Buddha, there would be no reason why, in the interim, he could have received instructions from Kāśyapa to serve as an envoy for a thousand years. How could a bodhisattva closely attend the Buddha and yet command the Buddha to serve as an envoy? Furthermore, the reign of King Zhuang of Zhou lasted only fifteen years; its first year was yiyou, and it did not contain a bingchen year at all. How could the era-title ‘Benchu’ be so erroneous as this? It is truly enough to make one cover one's ears, and enough to make the Most High stamp upon the ground in wrath! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 9.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.9.68) - [Next: 9.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.9.70) - [Up: 9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.9) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103~en-mt.9.69) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.9.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.9.69) · Pramāṇa