[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) › 27.10 # 經律異相 27.10 經律異相 27.10 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [27.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.27.10) 過去遠劫。此拘尸城有佛出世。號歡喜增益。住世無量化眾生已。然後乃於娑羅雙樹入般涅槃。佛涅槃後遺法住世無量億歲。餘四十年佛法未滅。有一持戒比丘。名曰覺德。多有徒眾眷屬圍遶能師子吼廣說經典。制諸比丘不得畜養奴婢牛羊非法之物。時多破戒比丘。聞作是說皆生惡心。執持刀杖逼是法師。是時國王。名曰有德。聞是事已。為護法故即便往至說法者所。與是破戒諸惡比丘。極共戰鬪。令說法者得免危害。王時被瘡舉身周遍。覺德尋讚王言。善哉善哉。王今真是護正法者。當來之世此身當為無量法器。王於是時得聞法已。心大歡喜尋即命終。生阿閦佛國作第一弟子。其王將從人民眷屬。有戰鬪者。有隨喜者。一切不退菩提之心。命終悉生阿閦佛國。覺德比丘却後壽終。亦復往生阿閦佛國。作聲聞眾中第二弟子。若有正法滅時。應當如是受持擁護。時王者則我身是。說法比丘迦葉佛是（出大涅槃經第三卷）。 > In the distant kalpas of the past, there was a Buddha who appeared in the world in this city of Kuśinagara, named Joy and Increase (Nandivardhana). After dwelling in the world for an immeasurable time and transforming sentient beings, he entered parinirvāṇa between the twin śāla trees. After the Buddha's nirvāṇa, his bequeathed Dharma remained in the world for immeasurable hundreds of millions of years. When forty years remained before the Buddha-Dharma was to be extinguished, there was a precept-holding monk named Jñānaprabha. He had many disciples and retinues surrounding him, was able to roar the lion's roar, and broadly expounded the scriptures. He prohibited the monks from keeping male and female slaves, cattle, sheep, and other improper items. At that time, there were many precept-breaking monks who, hearing this spoken, all gave rise to malicious thoughts. Grasping knives and clubs, they pressed upon this Dharma master. At that time, the king of the kingdom, named Youde, heard of this matter. In order to protect the Dharma, he immediately went to the place of the Dharma speaker and fought fiercely with these wicked, precept-breaking monks, enabling the Dharma speaker to escape harm. At that time, the king was wounded over his entire body. Jñānaprabha immediately praised the king, saying, 'Excellent, excellent! Today, O King, you are truly one who protects the true Dharma. In future ages, this body will be an immeasurable vessel of the Dharma.' The king, having heard the Dharma at that time, rejoiced greatly in his heart, and immediately died. He was born in the Buddha-land of Akṣobhya to become his foremost disciple. The king's officers, attendants, subjects, and kin—those who fought and those who rejoiced along with them—all did not retrogress from the bodhicitta; at the end of their lives, they were all born in the Buddha-land of Akṣobhya. Later, when the monk Jñānaprabha's lifespan ended, he was also reborn in the Buddha-land of Akṣobhya, becoming the second disciple among the assembly of śrāvakas. When the true Dharma is about to be extinguished, one should uphold and protect it in this manner. The king at that time was my own self, and the monk who expounded the Dharma was Kāśyapa Buddha (from the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra, fascicle 3). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 27.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.27.9) - [Next: 27.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.27.11) - [Up: 27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.27) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121~en-mt.27.10) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.27.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.27.10) · Pramāṇa