[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) › [經律異相](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121) › 11.8 # 經律異相 11.8 經律異相 11.8 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [11.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.11.8) 過去無量阿僧祇劫。爾時此界名無垢須彌。人壽百歲。有佛出世。號香蓮花。般涅槃後像法之中。我於爾時。作大強力轉輪聖王。號難沮壞。王閻浮提。千子具足。我悉勸化。令發阿耨多羅三藐三菩提心。欲於像法出家修道。熾然增益佛之遺法。唯除六子。不肯出家發菩提心。我以善言說語。終不出家。我復重問。令發無上道心。六子答言。若能與我閻浮提者。然後當發阿耨多羅三藐三菩提心。我聞是已心生歡喜。作是思惟。我今已化閻浮提人。今當分此閻浮提。以為六分。與此六子。令其得發無上道心。然後我當出家修道。即分閻浮提為六分以賜六子。尋便出家。爾時六子。各相違戾抄掠攻伐。爾時一切閻浮提內。苗稼不登人民飢餓。水雨不時諸樹枯悴。不生華實。鳥獸皆飢。其身熾然。我於爾時捨己身體肌膚血肉。以施眾生令其飽滿。我於爾時。自投其身。以願力故即成肉山。高一由旬。縱廣正等。是時人民。飛鳥禽獸。始於是時。噉肉飲血。以本願故。於是中分增益廣大其身。乃至高千由旬。縱廣正等亦千由旬。其邊自然而生人頭。髮毛眼耳鼻口脣舌具足而有。彼諸頭中各各有聲。而唱是言。諸眾生等。各各自恣隨意取用。飲血噉肉。取其目耳鼻舌齒等皆令滿足。然後悉令發阿耨多羅三藐三菩提心。或發聲聞辟支佛心。或求天上人中富樂。以本願故身無損減。乃至萬歲。閻浮提內。人及諸鬼神。飛鳥禽獸。皆悉充足。汝今當知。我於往昔萬歲之中。所捨無量無邊阿僧祇身體。血肉給施無量無邊悉令飽足。乃至一念不生悔心。如是次第遍滿十方如恒河沙等諸佛世界。捨身血肉給施眾生悉令飽足。為檀波羅蜜（出悲華經第九卷過去香蓮花佛世界經大同但不言菩薩耳）。 > In the past, immeasurable asaṃkhyeya kalpas ago, this world was then called Vimalasumeru. The human lifespan was one hundred years. A Buddha appeared in the world named Gandhahastin \[or Sugandhapuṣpa, 'Fragrant Lotus'\]. During the Semblance Dharma after his parinirvāṇa, I was at that time a great and mighty wheel-turning sage king named Durnirodha ('Hard to Subdue'). Ruling over Jambudvīpa, I was fully endowed with a thousand sons. I admonished and converted them all, causing them to bring forth the mind of anuttarasamyaksaṃbodhi, wishing that they would leave the household life and cultivate the Way during the Semblance Dharma to blaze forth and enhance the Buddha's bequeathed teachings. Only six sons refused to leave the household life and bring forth the bodhi-mind. Though I addressed them with wholesome words, in the end they would not leave home. I asked them again, bidding them bring forth the supreme mind of the Way. The six sons answered: 'If you can give us Jambudvīpa, then we shall bring forth the mind of anuttarasamyaksaṃbodhi.' When I heard this, my heart gave rise to joy, and I reflected: 'I have now already converted the people of Jambudvīpa. Now I ought to divide this Jambudvīpa into six parts and give them to these six sons so that they may bring forth the supreme mind of the Way, and then I shall leave home and cultivate the Way.' I thereupon divided Jambudvīpa into six parts to bestow upon the six sons, and soon after left the household life. At that time, the six sons turned against one another, plundering, attacking, and warring. Thereupon, throughout the entire realm of Jambudvīpa, crops did not ripen, the people starved, rains were unseasonable, and the trees withered, bearing neither flowers nor fruits. Birds and beasts were all starved, their bodies burning \[with hunger\]. At that time, I cast off my own physical body, flesh, skin, and blood, to bestow upon sentient beings and satisfy them. At that time, I cast myself down, and through the power of my vow, I instantly became a mountain of meat, one yojana high, and equal in length and breadth. At that time, the people, flying birds, and beasts began to eat the meat and drink the blood. Through my original vow, from its midst my body expanded and grew larger, reaching a height of a thousand yojanas, with its length and breadth also equal at a thousand yojanas. Along its sides human heads spontaneously grew, fully endowed with hair, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, lips, and tongue. From each of those heads came a voice proclaiming these words: 'Sentient beings, take and use freely as you wish! Drink blood and eat meat; take eyes, ears, nose, tongue, teeth, and so forth, letting all be satisfied. Afterward, let all bring forth the mind of anuttarasamyaksaṃbodhi, or bring forth the mind of a śrāvaka or pratyekabuddha, or seek the wealth and joy among gods and men!' Through the power of the original vow, the body suffered no diminish or loss, and for up to ten thousand years, humans, ghosts, spirits, flying birds, and beasts throughout Jambudvīpa were all fully satisfied. You should know now: the immeasurable, boundless asaṃkhyeyas of physical bodies I gave up throughout those ten thousand years in the past, giving my blood and flesh to immeasurable and boundless \[beings\] to let them all be fully satisfied, never gave rise to a single thought of regret. In this manner, progressively filling Buddha-worlds in the ten directions equal in number to the sands of the Ganges, I gave up the flesh and blood of my bodies to provide for sentient beings and fully satisfy them, for the sake of the perfection of giving (dāna-pāramitā). (Taken from the ninth fascicle of the Karuṇāpuṇḍarīka Sūtra; the Scripture on the World of the Past Fragrant Lotus Buddha is largely the same, but does not speak of the bodhisattva.) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 11.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.11.7) - [Next: 11.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.11.9) - [Up: 11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.11) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121~en-mt.11.8) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.11.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.11.8) · Pramāṇa