[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) › 29.31 # 法苑珠林 29.31 法苑珠林 29.31 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [29.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.29.31) 又從此西南大林行五百里至婆羅痆（女黠反）廝國。屬中印度（舊云波羅奈也）都城西臨殑伽河。城居人滿。城東北有婆羅痆斯河。東北十餘里。是鹿野寺。又西南塔。高百餘尺。前有石柱。高七十餘尺。洞徹清淨。誠感像現。隨其善惡。即成道已初轉法輪處。其側三塔。即昔三佛行坐處傍有諸塔。是五百獨覺入滅度處。又側一塔是慈氏菩薩受記處。又西一塔是佛過去為護明菩薩迦葉波佛授今佛成道處。次南有四佛經行處。長五十步。高七尺。青石積成。上作釋迦經行像。形特異。肉髻上鬚髮頭抽出。神而有徵。寺迹極多。精舍浮圖乃有數百。事難述盡。寺西有清池。周二百步。佛昔盥浴。次西小池。佛甞滌器處。次北小池。佛甞有澣衣處。次之三池。龍止其中。味甘且淨。有慢觸者。金毘羅獸即而害之。次側有方石。上有佛袈裟文迹。外道凶人有輕蹈者。池龍輒興風雨害之。次側有浮圖。佛曾作六牙象王。見獵師者被法衣故拔牙與處。次又一塔。佛昔為象與猴相問大小處。又大林中塔。佛與調達昔為鹿王佛代孕鹿命處。鹿野之號因此得名。寺西南三里有一塔。是五人迎佛處。又大林東三里有塔。佛昔為兔。與諸獸聚自知形小燒身饋之。因感天帝下來讚。故使月輪有兔像現。 > Traveling five hundred li southwest from here through a great forest, one reaches the country of Vārāṇasī, which belongs to Central India (formerly called Boluonai). The capital city faces the Gaṅgā River to the west, and is densely populated. Northeast of the city is the Vārāṇasī River. More than ten li to the northeast is the Deer Park Monastery. Further to the southwest is a stūpa, over a hundred feet high, in front of which is a stone pillar over seventy feet high; it is lucid and pure, and images appear in sympathetic response to sincerity, according to one's good or evil; this is where \[the Buddha\], having attained the Way, first turned the wheel of the Dharma. Beside it are three stūpas, the places where the three previous Buddhas walked and sat. Nearby are various stūpas, where five hundred pratyekabuddhas entered extinction. Beside that is another stūpa, where Maitreya Bodhisattva received his prediction. Further west is a stūpa where the Buddha, in the past as the Bodhisattva Prabhāpāla, was granted the prediction of his future attainment of Buddhahood by Kāśyapa Buddha. Next to the south is the place where the four Buddhas walked, fifty paces long and seven feet high, built of stacked green stone, upon which is an image of Śākyamuni walking; its form is extraordinary, with curls of hair protruding from the uṣṇīṣa, miraculous and verified by signs. Traces at the monastery are extremely numerous; vihāras and stūpas number in the hundreds, difficult to describe exhaustively. West of the monastery is a clear pond, two hundred paces around, where the Buddha formerly bathed. Next to the west is a small pond, where the Buddha once washed his vessels. Next to the north is a small pond, where the Buddha once washed his robes. In these three adjacent ponds, nāgas dwell; the water is sweet and pure, and if anyone disrespectfully defiles it, a kumbhīra beast immediately attacks and harms them. Beside that is a square stone, upon which are the impressions of the Buddha's kāṣāya; if heretics or evil persons tread upon it lightly, the pond nāgas immediately stir up wind and rain to harm them. Beside that is a stūpa where the Buddha, having once been a six-tusked elephant king, pulled out his tusks and gave them to a hunter because he saw the hunter wearing a Dharma robe. Next is another stūpa where the Buddha, formerly as an elephant, inquired about seniority with a monkey. Further, in the great forest, is a stūpa where the Buddha and Devadatta were formerly deer kings, and the Buddha offered his own life in place of a pregnant doe; the name Deer Park was derived from this. Three li southwest of the monastery is a stūpa where the five men welcomed the Buddha. Three li east of the great forest is a stūpa where the Buddha, formerly as a hare gathered with the other animals, knew that his own body was small and threw himself into fire to offer his flesh; because he moved Śakra to come down in praise, the image of a hare was made to appear in the disc of the moon. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 29.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.29.30) - [Next: 29.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.29.32) - [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.29.31) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [釋迦方志](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2088.1.86) — 道宣, Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.29.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.29.31) · Pramāṇa