[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) › 29.21 # 法苑珠林 29.21 法苑珠林 29.21 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [29.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.29.21) 又隔六國。於此東南行至劫比他國。屬中印度。中有天祠十所。同事大自在天。皆作天像。其狀人根形甚長偉。俗人不以為惡。謂諸眾生從天根生也。王都城東二十餘里。大寺側大垣內有天帝釋為佛造三道寶階。中皆附黃金。左以水精。右用白銀。南北而列。東面下地。是佛從逝多林（舊云祇陀林）昇天至善法堂為母三月說法下降處。百年已前階尚猶在。今並沒盡。後王倣之。猶高七十餘尺。上起精舍。石側有柱。光潤映現。隨其罪福影出柱中。育王所造。階側有浮圖。四佛行坐迹處。又有佛澡浴處。立塔其所。有佛入室精舍。又其側佛經行石基。長五十步。高七尺。足可覆處皆有蓮華文。又基左右小塔梵王所造。次前是蓮華尼化為輪王先見佛處。佛告尼曰。非汝先也。有蘇部底（舊云須菩提）宴坐石室知諸法空。此先見吾法身也。 > Further, passing six countries and traveling southeast from here, one reaches the country of Kapiṭha, belonging to Central India. Within it are ten deva temples, all serving Maheśvara; they are all fashioned in the image of the deva, shaped as a human male organ of immense size and height. The common people do not consider this evil, believing that all sentient beings are born from the deva's organ. More than twenty li east of the royal capital, beside a great monastery within a large wall, there are three precious staircases built by Śakra, lord of the devas, for the Buddha. The central one is overlaid with gold, the left with crystal, and the right with silver, arranged north to south, descending to the ground on the eastern side. This is the place where the Buddha, having ascended from Jetavana to heaven to preach the Dharma to his mother for three months in the Sudharmā Hall, descended back down. More than a hundred years ago, the staircases were still present, but now they are completely submerged. Subsequent kings imitated them, still rising over seventy feet high, with a vihāra built atop them. Beside the stone is a pillar, smooth and lustrous, reflecting like a mirror; according to one's sins or merits, shadows appear in the pillar; it was built by King Aśoka. Beside the staircases is a stupa marking the walking and sitting traces of the four Buddhas. There is also the place where the Buddha bathed, where a stupa has been erected. There is a vihāra marking the room entered by the Buddha, and beside it is the stone platform where the Buddha engaged in walking meditation, fifty paces long and seven feet high; wherever his feet stepped, there are lotus patterns. Moreover, the small stupas to the left and right of the platform were built by Brahmā. Just in front of this is the place where the nun Utpalavarṇā transformed into a cakravartin to see the Buddha first. The Buddha said to the nun, 'You are not the first. Subhūti, sitting in contemplation in his stone cave, realized that all dharmas are empty; he was the first to see my Dharmakāya.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 29.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.29.20) - [Next: 29.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.29.22) - [Up: 29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.29) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.29.21) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [釋迦方志](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2088.1.72) — 道宣, Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.29.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.29.21) · Pramāṇa