[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) › 32.21 # 法苑珠林 32.21 法苑珠林 32.21 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [32.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.32.21) 又百緣經云。佛在世時。舍衛城中有一長者婦。產一男兒。形貌極醜狀似惡鬼。有人見者捨之而去。年漸長大父母厭惡。驅令遠棄。乃至畜生。見此醜陋。尚懷悑懼。何況人類。又於一時。詣林採菓以自存活。飛鳥走獸。無不悑走。絕迹無住。世尊慈念將諸比丘。到林欲度。見佛避走。佛以神力使不得去。時諸比丘在樹下跏趺繫念。世尊化作醜陋人。執持應器盛滿中食。漸向醜人。形狀類己心懷喜悅。今此人者真是我伴。尋求共語同器而食。食已時彼化人忽然端正。醜陋問言。汝今何以忽然端正。化人答言。我食此食。以善心觀彼樹下坐禪比丘使我端正。醜陋聞已。尋復效之。尋得端正。心懷喜悅。即向化人深生信解。於是化人還復本形醜陋。見佛三十二相八十種好。光明普曜如百千日。前禮佛足却坐一面。佛即為其種種說法得須陀洹果。即於佛前求索出家。佛告善來比丘。鬚髮自落。法服著身。便成沙門。精勤修習。得阿羅漢果。時諸比丘見是事已。請佛為說宿本因緣。佛告比丘。乃往過去無量世中。有佛出世。號曰弗沙。在一樹下結跏趺坐。我及彌勒俱為菩薩到彼佛所種種供養。而翹一足。於七日中說偈讚佛。 > Furthermore, the Baiyuan jing says: When the Buddha was in the world, in the city of Śrāvastī, a guild-master's wife gave birth to a boy whose appearance was exceedingly ugly, resembling an evil demon. Anyone who saw him abandoned him and walked away. As he gradually grew older, his parents came to loathe him and drove him away to be discarded afar. Even beasts, seeing his ugliness, still harboured fear; how much more so humans! On another occasion, he went into the forest to gather fruit to support himself. Flying birds and running beasts all fled in terror, completely vanishing with no trace remaining. The World-Honoured One, out of compassionate thought, led the bhikṣus to the forest intending to deliver him. Seeing the Buddha, he fled to evade him, but the Buddha used his supernatural power so that he could not leave. At that time, the bhikṣus were sitting cross-legged beneath the trees, concentrating their thoughts. The World-Honoured One transformed himself into an ugly man, holding an alms bowl filled with food. He gradually approached the ugly man, whose heart was delighted to see a form resembling his own: ‘This person is truly my companion!’ He sought to speak with him and eat from the same bowl. After they finished eating, the transformed person suddenly became handsome and upright. The ugly man asked: ‘Why have you now suddenly become handsome and upright?’ The transformed person answered: ‘I ate this food and, with a good heart, gazed upon those bhikṣus sitting in dhyāna beneath the trees, which caused me to become handsome and upright.’ When the ugly man heard this, he immediately imitated him, and instantly became handsome and upright. His heart was filled with delight, and he gave rise to deep faith and understanding toward the transformed person. Thereupon, the transformed person reverted to his original ugly form. \[The man then\] saw the Buddha's thirty-two marks and eighty minor characteristics, his light shining everywhere like hundreds of thousands of suns. He came forward, bowed at the Buddha's feet, and sat to one side. The Buddha immediately expounded various teachings for him, and he attained the fruit of a srotaāpanna. Thereupon, before the Buddha, he sought to leave the household life. The Buddha said to him, ‘Welcome, bhikṣu!’ His hair and beard fell away of themselves, the kāṣāya appeared upon his body, and he immediately became a śramaṇa. Diligently practising, he attained the fruit of an arhat. When the bhikṣus saw this, they asked the Buddha to explain his past causes and conditions. The Buddha told the bhikṣus: ‘In the past, immeasurable kalpas ago, a Buddha appeared in the world named Puṣya, who sat cross-legged beneath a tree. Maitreya and I were both bodhisattvas who went to that Buddha's dwelling to make various offerings; raising one foot, during seven days I spoke verses praising the Buddha:’ > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 32.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.32.20) - [Next: 32.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.32.22) - [Up: 32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.32) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.32.21) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.32.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.32.21) · Pramāṇa