法苑珠林 35.45

35.45

世尊又告阿難言。往須彌山頂鳴鍾。召集四方一切諸比丘。皆集戒壇所。各各自言。得四果者合得八百萬人。皆令脫七條披著僧伽梨。以前憂多羅送至世尊前。如來手自受之。安置覆釜上。世尊自脫七條安置諸衣上。如來發聲。普告大眾天人龍神等。我於無量劫中。捨頭目髓腦及內外財寶。方得解脫衣。證無上菩提教化群生。我涅槃後。諸惡比丘不信我教。不持禁戒不護解脫衣。無有威德毀滅正法。諸惡比丘尼不順教勅。於金剛道場內行不淨行。猶如婬舍。不行八敬輕慢比丘。速滅我正法。令天人眾減諸惡充滿。我今共汝發四弘願。愍念來世諸惡僧尼。守護此衣勿令損失。安置塔中住持佛法。說此語時。地之六種震動天人龍神悲歎歡喜。聲至大千（世尊安多會五條衣。及尼師壇。廣起問答。大同僧伽梨。世尊皆從梵王帝釋魔王等索諸寶玉。世尊造塔不盈七日寶塔皆成。展轉相付。乃至彌勒下時付彼流通）又世尊初成道度五拘隣竟。至第七年中。諸聲聞弟子漸漸增多。有一比丘。名真陀羅是閻浮洲北瞿陀羅國人。因商賈為業。來至中天竺。遇佛出家命善來度。彼國無有布帛氈毛。一切國人純著駁犢皮以為上衣。此真陀羅比丘。於王舍城見一駁犢皮。從彼俗人索作袈裟。彼俗譏嫌。有比丘白佛。佛喚呵責。佛告諸大眾。我此閻浮提及餘大千界如瞿陀羅國。以皮為袈裟。總有二十萬國。恐我入涅槃後。多惡比丘手害生命。取皮為衣。

The World-Honoured One again addressed Ānanda: "Go to the summit of Mount Sumeru and strike the bell, assembling all the monks of the four quarters to gather at the ordination platform." Those who individually declared that they had attained the four fruits amounted in total to eight million people. They were all ordered to take off their seven-strip robes and put on saṅghāṭīs, and they brought their previous uttarāsaṅgas before the World-Honoured One. The Tathāgata personally received them with his own hands and placed them upon an inverted cauldron. The World-Honoured One took off his own seven-strip robe and placed it upon all the robes. The Tathāgata raised his voice and universally addressed the great assembly of gods, humans, dragons, and spirits: "Over incalculable kalpas, I renounced head, eyes, marrow, and brain, as well as internal and external wealth and treasures, before I obtained the robe of liberation, realized unsurpassed bodhi, and taught and transformed sentient beings. After my nirvāṇa, evil monks will not believe my teaching, will not uphold the prohibitions, and will not protect the robe of liberation; lacking awe-inspiring virtue, they will destroy the Saddharma. Evil bhikṣuṇīs will disobey instructions and commit impure conduct within the vajra-bodhimaṇḍa, just like in a brothel; they will not practice the eight gurudharmas and will disparage monks, swiftly destroying my Saddharma, causing the hosts of gods and humans to diminish and all evils to abound. I now make the four great vows together with you: pitying the evil monks and nuns of future ages, guard these robes so that they are not lost or damaged, and place them inside stūpas to maintain the Buddha-Dharma." When he spoke these words, the earth shook in six ways, and the gods, humans, dragons, and spirits grieved and rejoiced, their voices reaching the trichiliocosm. (The World-Honoured One's five-strip antarvāsas and niṣīdana broadly gave rise to questions and answers, largely identical to those concerning the saṅghāṭī. The World-Honoured One requested all jewels and jades from Brahmā, Śakra, Māra, and others; before seven days had passed, the precious stūpas were all completed, to be transmitted in succession until Maitreya descends, when they are to be entrusted to him for propagation.) Furthermore, when the World-Honoured One first attained the Way and finished converting the five Kauṇḍinya companions, in the seventh year, the śrāvaka disciples gradually increased. There was a monk named Candra, a native of the kingdom of Godāna north of Jambudvīpa, who had come to Central India engaging in trade as his occupation. Encountering the Buddha, he left home and was converted with the call 'Come, good man!' In that country there was neither cloth, silk, nor wool; all the people of the country wore only mottled calfskins as upper garments. In Rājagṛha, this monk Candra saw a mottled calfskin, and requested it from a layperson to make a kāṣāya. That layperson ridiculed him. A monk reported it to the Buddha, and the Buddha summoned and rebuked him. The Buddha addressed the great assembly: "In this Jambudvīpa of mine and the rest of the trichiliocosm, countries like the country of Godāna that use skins for kāṣāyas number twenty thousand in total. I fear that after I enter nirvāṇa, many evil monks will manually kill living beings and take skins to make robes."