[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) › [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122) › 12.37 # 法苑珠林 12.37 法苑珠林 12.37 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [12.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.12.37) 爾時阿難發聲唱言。我聞如是。一時說佛所居處。迦葉及一切聖眾。墮淚悲泣不能自勝。咄嗟老死。如幻如化。昨日見佛。今日已稱言我聞。又四分律云。爾時世尊在拘尸城末羅國娑羅林間般涅槃。諸末羅子洗佛舍利已具辨闍維。時大迦葉燒舍利已。以此因緣集比丘言。我等今可共論法毘尼。勿令外道以致餘言譏嫌沙門瞿曇法律若湮。其世尊在時皆共學戒。而今滅後無學戒者。諸長老今可科差比丘多聞智慧是阿羅漢者。時即差得四百九十九人。皆是阿羅漢多聞智慧者。時諸比丘言。應差阿難在數中。大迦葉言。勿以阿難在數中。何以故。阿難有愛恚怖癡。是故不應令在數中。時諸比丘復言。阿難是供養佛人。當隨佛行。親從世尊受所教法。必處處疑問世尊。是故今者應令在數。即便令在數。諸比丘皆作是念。我等當於何處集論法毘尼。多饒飲食臥具無乏耶。即皆言。唯王舍城房舍飲食臥具眾多。我等今宜可共往集彼論法毘尼。時大迦葉即作白令集王舍城。時阿難在道行靜處。心自念言。譬如新生犢子猶故飲乳與五百大牛共行。我今亦如是。學人有作者。而與五百阿羅漢共行。時諸長老皆往毘舍離。阿難在毘舍離住。時諸道俗皆來問訊阿難。多人眾集。時有跋闍子比丘。有大神力。已得天眼知他心智。今觀阿難。為是有欲。無欲人耶。即便觀察。是有欲非是無欲。今當令其生厭離心。即說偈言。 > At that time Ānanda raised his voice and proclaimed: 'Thus have I heard. At one time...' and stated the place where the Buddha resided. Kāśyapa and all the holy assembly shed tears and wept in grief, unable to contain themselves: 'Alas! Old age and death are like illusions and apparitions. Yesterday we saw the Buddha; today it is already proclaimed, "I have heard"!' > Also, according to the \*Dharmaguptaka-vinaya\*, at that time the World-Honoured One passed into parinirvāṇa in the śāla grove of the Mallas in the city of Kuśīnagara. The Mallas, having washed the Buddha's relics, prepared the cremation. When Mahākāśyapa had burned the relics, on that account he assembled the monks and said: 'We should now together discuss the Dharma and Vinaya, lest non-Buddhists express further criticisms and revile Śramaṇa Gautama's Dharma and Vinaya as being submerged and lost, saying that when the World-Honoured One was present all studied the precepts together, but now after his extinction none study the precepts. Elders, you should now appoint monks of vast learning and wisdom who are arhats.' At that time four hundred and ninety-nine persons were appointed, all of whom were arhats of vast learning and wisdom. At that time the monks said: 'Ānanda should be appointed among the number.' Mahākāśyapa said: 'Do not include Ānanda in the number. Why? Ānanda has attachment, hatred, fear, and delusion; therefore he should not be included in the number.' At that time the monks said again: 'Ānanda is one who served the Buddha; he accompanied the Buddha on his travels and personally received the taught Dharma from the World-Honoured One, certainly asking the World-Honoured One questions in various places. Therefore he should now be included in the number.' So they immediately included him in the number. The monks all thought: 'Where should we assemble to discuss the Dharma and Vinaya so that food, drink, and bedding are plentiful without shortage?' They all said: 'Only in Rājagṛha are dwellings, food, drink, and bedding abundant. We should now go together to assemble there to discuss the Dharma and Vinaya.' Mahākāśyapa then made the announcement ordering them to assemble at Rājagṛha. At that time Ānanda was walking alone in a quiet place along the road, and thought to himself: 'Just as a newborn calf still nursing walks together with five hundred large oxen, so am I now: a trainee, one with things yet to do, walking together with five hundred arhats.' At that time the elders all went to Vaiśālī, and Ānanda stayed in Vaiśālī. At that time monastics and laypeople all came to pay their respects to Ānanda, and a great crowd gathered. There was then a Vṛjiputra monk who possessed great supernatural power, had attained the divine eye, and knew the minds of others. He now observed Ānanda: 'Is he a person with desire, or without desire?' Upon observing, \[he saw\] that he had desire and was not without desire. 'I should now cause him to give rise to a mind of revulsion.' He then spoke in verse: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 12.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.12.36) - [Next: 12.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.12.38) - [Up: 12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.12) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.12.37) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.12.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.12.37) · Pramāṇa