[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) › 16.47 # 法苑珠林 16.47 法苑珠林 16.47 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [16.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.16.47) 又佛說彌勒來時經云。佛言。彌勒佛欲來出時。閻浮利內地山樹草木皆焦盡。於今閻浮利地周匝六十萬里。彌勒出時閻浮利地。東西長四十萬里。南北廣三十二萬里。地生五菓。四海之內無山陵嵠谷。地平如砥樹木長大。人少三毒民多聚落。城名氾羅那夷。有一婆羅門名須凡。當為彌勒作父。母名摩訶越題。彌勒當為作子。相好具足身長十六丈。生墮城地目徹視萬里內。頭中日光照四千里。彌勒得道為佛時。於龍華樹下坐。樹高四十里。廣亦四十里（大成佛經華枝如龍頭故名龍華樹亦有別傳云子從龍宮出故名龍華樹也）用四月八日明星出時得道。彌勒佛却後六十億殘六十萬歲當來下（自外大同成佛經說）王玄策西國行傳云。唐顯慶二年。勅使王玄策等往西國。送佛袈裟。至泥婆羅國西南。至頗羅度來村東坎下。有一水火池。若將家火照之。其水上即有火焰於水中出。欲滅以水沃之。其焰轉熾。漢使等曾於中架一釜煮飯熟。使問彼國王。國王答使人云。曾經以杖刺著一金匱。令人挽出。一挽一深。相傳云。此是彌勒佛當來成道天冠金。火龍防守之。此池火乃是火龍火也。又智度論云。彌勒菩薩為白衣時。師名婆跋犁。有三種相。一眉間白毫相。二舌覆面相。三陰藏相。如是等非是菩薩時亦皆有此相也。 > Furthermore, the Scripture Preached by the Buddha on the Time of Maitreya's Coming says: 'The Buddha said: When Maitreya Buddha is about to appear, within Jambudvīpa the lands, mountains, trees, grasses, and woods will all be scorched away. Now the land of Jambudvīpa has a circumference of six hundred thousand li. When Maitreya appears, the land of Jambudvīpa will be four hundred thousand li long from east to west, and three hundred and twenty thousand li wide from north to south. The earth will produce the five grains. Within the four seas there will be no mountain peaks, valleys, or ravines; the ground will be flat like a whetstone, and trees will grow tall and large. People will have few of the three poisons, and the populace will have many settlements. The city will be called Bārāṇasī. There will be a brāhmaṇa named Subrahma, who shall be Maitreya's father; his mother will be named Brahmavatī, and Maitreya shall be their son. Endowed with the primary and secondary marks, his body will be sixteen zhang tall. When born onto the city ground, his eyes will see through within ten thousand li, and the sunlight from his head will illuminate four thousand li. When Maitreya attains the Way and becomes a Buddha, he will sit beneath the Dragon Flower Tree. The tree will be forty li high and forty li broad (the Scripture on the Great Attainment of Buddhahood says its flowering branches are like dragon heads, hence it is called the Dragon Flower Tree; there is also an alternate tradition that says its seeds emerged from the dragon palace, hence it is called the Dragon Flower Tree). He will attain the Way on the eighth day of the fourth month when the morning star appears. Maitreya Buddha shall descend after sixty billion and sixty thousand remaining years (the rest is mostly the same as the preaching of the Scripture on the Attainment of Buddhahood).' Wang Xuance's Account of Missions to the Western Regions says: 'In the second year of the Xianqing era of the Tang, imperial envoys Wang Xuance and others were dispatched to the Western Regions to deliver the Buddha's kāṣāya robe. Arriving southwest of the kingdom of Nepāla, down into a pit east of the village of Bharadvāja, there was a pond of water and fire. If one took household fire to illuminate it, flames would immediately emerge from within the water on top of the pond. If one wished to extinguish it and poured water on it, its flames blazed all the more vigorously. The Han envoys once set up a cauldron over it and cooked rice until done. The envoy asked the king of that country, and the king replied to the envoy, saying: 'Once, when a stick was jabbed into it, it touched a golden casket. People were ordered to haul it out, but the more they hauled, the deeper it sank. Tradition says: This is the celestial crown gold for Maitreya Buddha's future attainment of the Way, and a fire dragon guards it. The fire of this pond is none other than the fire of the fire dragon.' Furthermore, the Mahāprajñāpāramitā-śāstra says: 'When Maitreya Bodhisattva was a layperson, his teacher was named Bāvari, who possessed three marks: first, the ūrṇā-hair mark between the eyebrows; second, the tongue covering the face mark; third, the concealed organ mark. Such marks as these—even when he was not a bodhisattva, he possessed all of them.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 16.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.16.46) - [Next: 16.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.16.48) - [Up: 16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.16) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.16.47) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [諸經要集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.1.43) — Classical Chinese - [中天竺國行記](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.cn.tang.wang-xuance) — 王玄策, Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.16.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.16.47) · Pramāṇa