[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) › 8.58 # 經律異相 8.58 經律異相 8.58 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [8.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.8.58) 過去無數劫有佛。號一切度。與其眷屬俱行分衛。有三尊者子嚴服共戲。見佛及諸菩薩光明巍巍。手相指示。而吾等當共供養。二兒答言。既無花香當用何物。其一兒脫頭上白珠以著手中。便謂二兒可以供佛。二兒効之解頭上白珠著其手中。即至佛所。一兒復問二兒。持是功德以何求索。其一兒言。願如佛右面尊比丘。其一兒言。願如左面神足比丘。共問一兒。報言。我欲如佛。八千天子皆言善哉。若如所言天上天下一切蒙恩。是三小兒已到佛前。各以白珠而散佛上。二兒發聲聞意者。珠在佛肩上。其一兒發菩提心者。珠在佛頭上。化為珠花交露之帳其中有佛。佛告舍利弗中央兒者則我身是。右面之兒舍利弗是。左面之兒目連是。舍利弗汝等本畏生死故。不發菩薩心欲疾泥洹。觀此一兒發阿耨多羅三藐三菩提心者（出阿闍世王經卷上）。 > Countless kalpas ago in the past, there was a Buddha named Sarvatāra, who went begging for alms together with his retinue. There were three sons of elders who, splendidly attired, were playing together. Seeing the Buddha and the bodhisattvas with their majestic light, they pointed with their hands to one another and said, "We should make an offering together." Two boys answered, "Since we have neither flowers nor incense, what should we use?" One boy took off a white pearl from his head and placed it in his hand, whereupon he said to the two boys, "We can use this to make an offering to the Buddha." The other two boys followed his example, took off the white pearls from their heads, placed them in their hands, and then went to the Buddha's place. The one boy then asked the other two, "Using this merit, what do you seek?" One boy said, "I vow to become like the venerable monk on the Buddha's right side." The other boy said, "I vow to become like the monk of supernatural powers on his left side." They jointly asked the first boy, who replied, "I wish to become like the Buddha." Eight thousand sons of the gods all said, "Excellent! If it is as you say, all above heaven and below heaven will receive your grace." When the three little boys arrived before the Buddha, each scattered his white pearl over the Buddha. For the two boys who gave rise to the aspiration for the śrāvaka \[vehicle\], their pearls rested on the Buddha's shoulders. For the one boy who generated the bodhicitta, his pearl rested above the Buddha's head and transformed into a canopy of pearl-flowers and intertwined dew, within which was a Buddha. The Buddha told Śāriputra: "The boy in the middle was myself; the boy on the right was you, Śāriputra; and the boy on the left was Maudgalyāyana. Śāriputra, because you originally feared birth and death, you did not generate the bodhisattva mind and wished for a swift nirvāṇa. Behold this one boy who gave rise to anuttarasamyaksaṃbodhi!" (From the Ajātaśatru-rāja-sūtra, fascicle 1). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 8.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.8.57) - [Next: 8.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.8.59) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.8) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121~en-mt.8.58) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.8.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.8.58) · Pramāṇa