[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) › 26.19 # 法苑珠林 26.19 法苑珠林 26.19 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [26.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.26.19) 時阿羅漢說此偈已默然無聲。獼猴天子白言。大德。我前身時作何罪業生獼猴中。復有何福值遇大德。得免畜生生於天上。羅漢答言。乃往過去此閻浮提有佛出世。名曰寶慧如來。至涅槃後。於像法中。有一比丘。名蓮華藏。多與國王長者居士而為親友。邪命諂曲不持戒行。身壞命終落阿鼻獄。如蓮華敷。滿十八隔具受諸苦。壽命一劫。劫盡更生。如是經歷諸大地獄滿八萬四千劫。從地獄出墮餓鬼中。吞飲鎔銅經八萬四千歲。從餓鬼出復墮牛猪狗猴中。各五百身。緣前供養持戒比丘結誓要重。今復遇我得生天上。持戒比丘即我身是。放逸比丘即汝身是。獼猴天子聞此語已心驚毛竪。懺悔前罪即還天上。 > When the arhat had finished speaking this verse, he became silent. The monkey devaputra said: 'Venerable One, what sinful karma did I commit in my past life to be born among monkeys? And what merit do I have that I met the Venerable One and was freed from being an animal to be born in heaven?' The arhat answered, saying: 'Far in the past, a Buddha appeared in this Jambudvīpa named Ratnamati Tathāgata. After his nirvāṇa, during the Semblance Dharma, there was a bhikṣu named Padmagarbha. He made friends with many kings, elders, and householders, lived by wrong livelihood, was flattering and crooked, and did not uphold the precepts and conduct. When his body broke up and life ended, he fell into the Avīci hell like a lotus opening. Filling the eighteen compartments, he experienced all sufferings fully, with a lifespan of one kalpa. When the kalpa ended, he was reborn again, thus passing through all the great hells for a full eighty-four thousand kalpas. Emerging from the hells, he fell among hungry ghosts, swallowing and drinking molten copper for eighty-four thousand years. Emerging from the hungry ghosts, he again fell among cattle, pigs, dogs, and monkeys, for five hundred lifetimes each. Because of having previously made offerings to a precept-holding bhikṣu and making serious vows, now you have met me again and were born in heaven. The precept-holding bhikṣu was my very body; the negligent bhikṣu was your very body.' Hearing these words, the monkey devaputra's heart was terrified and his hair stood on end. Repenting his former sins, he returned to heaven. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 26.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.26.18) - [Next: 26.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.26.20) - [Up: 26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.26) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.26.19) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [師子月佛本生經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.jataka.simhacandrabuddhajataka*zh-t176.1.13) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.26.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.26.19) · Pramāṇa