[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) › [續集古今佛道論衡](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2105) › 1.6 # 續集古今佛道論衡 1.6 續集古今佛道論衡 1.6 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2105.1.6) 案周書異記云。周穆王即位五十二年壬申歲二月十五日。平旦暴風忽起。廢損人舍傷折樹木。山川大地皆悉震動。午後天陰黑。西方有白虹。作十二道南北通過。連夜不滅。穆王問太史扈多曰。是何徵也。扈多對曰。西方有聖人滅度。衰相現也。穆王大悅曰。朕常懼於彼。今將滅度。朕何憂也。當此之時。佛入涅槃。計佛入涅槃至今合有一千二十二年。明帝大悅曰。弟子此土周書異記法師所說。恰然與同。帝復問法師曰。佛是大慈王。當時出世。何不化及此土。法師對曰。迦毘羅衛國者。是三千大千世界百億日月之中。三世諸佛皆從彼生。不同天龍鬼神有願行力者。並生於彼受佛正法。咸得悟道。餘處眾生無緣感佛。佛不往也。當時不往處光明皆悉及之。光明及者。佛涅槃後或五百年。或一千年之外。皆有聖人傳佛聲教而教化之。明帝曰。法師言一千年外有聲教者。亦與周書異記同。案齊國大統法師達摩欝多羅答高黎國諸法師云。佛當周昭王二十四年四月八日生。當周孝王五年二月十五日入般涅槃。 > "According to the Zhoushu yiji: On the fifteenth day of the second month in the renshen year, the fifty-second year of the reign of King Mu of Zhou, at dawn a violent wind suddenly arose, destroying human dwellings and snapping trees. The mountains, rivers, and the great earth all shook. After noon, the sky turned dark; in the west there was a white rainbow forming twelve bands passing from south to north, not extinguishing throughout the night. King Mu asked the Grand Astrologer Hu Duo: 'What portent is this?' Hu Duo replied: 'A sage in the west has passed into extinction; signs of decline have appeared.' King Mu was greatly pleased and said: 'I was always afraid of him; now he is about to pass into extinction, what should I worry about?' At this time, the Buddha entered nirvāṇa. Counting from the Buddha's entrance into nirvāṇa until now, it is altogether one thousand and twenty-two years." Emperor Ming was greatly pleased and said: "The Zhoushu yiji of my disciples' land and what the Dharma Master has spoken are precisely identical." The Emperor further asked the Dharma Master: "The Buddha was the King of Great Compassion. When he appeared in the world at that time, why did his transformation not reach this land?" The Dharma Master replied: "The country of Kapilavastu is at the center of the ten billion suns and moons of the great trichiliocosm; all Buddhas of the three periods of time are born there. Heavenly beings, dragons, ghosts, and spirits with the power of vow and practice are likewise all born there to receive the Buddha's True Dharma, and all attain awakening. Sentient beings in other places have no karmic connection to move the Buddha, so the Buddha did not go there. Though he did not go to those places at that time, his radiance reached all of them. For those reached by the radiance, either five hundred years or beyond a thousand years after the Buddha's nirvāṇa, there will always be sages to transmit the sounds of the Buddha's teachings and transform them." Emperor Ming said: "The Dharma Master's statement that beyond a thousand years there would be the sounds of his teachings is also identical with the Zhoushu yiji." According to what the Great Lineage Dharma Master Dharmottara of the Qi state replied to the various Dharma masters of the Koguryŏ state: The Buddha was born on the eighth day of the fourth month in the twenty-fourth year of King Zhao of Zhou, and entered parinirvāṇa on the fifteenth day of the second month in the fifth year of King Xiao of Zhou. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2105.1.5) - [Next: 1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2105.1.7) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2105.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2105~en-mt.1.6) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.12.86) — 道世, Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2105.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2105.1.6) · Pramāṇa