法苑珠林 49.56

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如智度論云。佛弟子提婆達多。是佛堂弟。出家學道誦得六萬法聚。精進修行滿十三年。其後為供養故。來至佛所求學神通。佛告憍曇。汝觀五陰無常可以得道。亦得神通。而不為說取通之法。出求舍利弗目揵連。乃至五百阿羅漢皆不為說。言汝當觀五陰無常。可以得道。可以得通。是時阿難未得他心智。如佛所言。以授提婆達多。提婆達多受學通法已。入山不久便得五通。得五通已自念。誰當與我作檀越者。如王子阿闍世有大王相。欲與為親厚。到天上取天食。還欝單越取自然粇米。至閻浮林中取閻浮菓。與王子阿闍世。或自變其身作象寶馬寶以惑其心。或作嬰孩種種變態以動其心。王子意惑。於柰園中大立精舍。四種供養。并種種雜供無物不備。以給提婆達多。日日率諸大臣。自送五百釜羹餅。提婆達多大得供養。而徒眾鮮少。自念我有三十相減佛未幾。直以弟子未集。若七眾圍繞與佛何異。如是思惟已生心破得五百弟子。舍利弗目揵連說法教化僧還和合。爾時提婆達多便生惡心。推山壓佛。金剛力士以金剛杵而遙擲之。碎石迸來傷佛足指。華色比丘尼呵之。復以拳打尼。尼即時眼出而死。作三逆罪。與惡邪師富蘭那外道等親厚。斷諸善根心無悔恨。復以惡毒著指爪中。欲因禮佛以中傷佛。欲去未到。於王舍城中地自然破裂。火車來迎生入地獄。提婆達多身有三十相。而不能忍伏其心。為供養利故而作大罪生入地獄。又涅槃經云。善星比丘。雖復讀誦十二部經獲得四禪。乃至不解一偈一句一字之義。親近惡友退失四禪。退四禪已生惡邪見。作如是說。無佛無法無有涅槃。沙門瞿曇善知相法。是故能知他人心。乃至爾時如來即與迦葉往善星所。善星比丘遙見我來。見已即生惡邪之心。以惡心故生身陷入阿鼻地獄。

As stated in the Mahāprajñāpāramitā-śāstra: The Buddha's disciple Devadatta was the Buddha's paternal cousin. Leaving household life to study the Path, he memorized sixty thousand aggregates of Dharma and practiced vigorously for full thirteen years. Later, for the sake of offerings, he came to the Buddha's place to seek to learn supernormal powers. The Buddha told Gautama, "Contemplate the impermanence of the five aggregates; you may attain the Path and also attain supernormal powers." But he would not teach him the method for acquiring powers. Going out, he sought it from Śāriputra, Maudgalyāyana, and on up to five hundred arhats, but none would teach him, saying, "You should contemplate the impermanence of the five aggregates; you can attain the Path and you can attain powers." At that time, Ānanda had not yet attained the knowledge of others' minds, and according to what the Buddha had said, he transmitted it to Devadatta. Having learned the method for powers, Devadatta entered the mountains and soon attained the five supernormal powers. Having attained the five supernormal powers, he thought to himself, "Who shall be my dānapati? Prince Ajātaśatru possesses the marks of a great king; I wish to be close to him." He went to the heavens to fetch divine food, returned to Uttarakuru to take naturally growing non-glutinous rice, and went into the Jambu forest to fetch jambu fruit, giving them to Prince Ajātaśatru. Or he transformed his body into an elephant-jewel or horse-jewel to confuse his mind, or appeared as an infant in various transformed states to sway his mind. The prince was bewildered in mind, and in the pear orchard he built a great monastery, providing the four kinds of offerings along with various mixed offerings, lacking nothing, to supply Devadatta. Day after day he led all the ministers in personally delivering five hundred cauldrons of soup and cakes. Devadatta obtained great offerings, yet his disciples were few. He thought to himself, "I have thirty marks, falling short of the Buddha by very little; it is merely that my disciples have not assembled. If surrounded by the seven assemblies, how would I differ from the Buddha?" Having reflected thus, he conceived the mind to break the saṃgha and gained five hundred disciples. Śāriputra and Maudgalyāyana taught through preaching the Dharma, and the saṃgha was reconciled again. At that time Devadatta gave rise to an evil mind and pushed down a mountain to crush the Buddha. The Vajradhara hurled a vajra scepter from afar; shattered stones flew out and injured the Buddha's toe. The bhikṣuṇī Utpalavarṇā scolded him, and he struck the nun with his fist; her eyes popped out and she died on the spot. Having committed three of the inversionary sins, he became close to evil heretical teachers like the non-Buddhist Pūraṇa, severing all roots of good with no remorse in his heart. Furthermore, he placed virulent poison under his fingernails, intending to use the pretext of bowing to the Buddha to strike and harm the Buddha. Intending to go, but before he arrived, in the city of Rājagṛha the earth spontaneously cracked open, a fiery chariot came to meet him, and he entered hell alive. Devadatta possessed thirty marks on his body, yet could not endure and subdue his mind; for the sake of the benefit of offerings, he committed grave sins and entered hell alive. Furthermore, the Nirvāṇa-sūtra states: Sunakkhatta the monk, though he recited the twelve divisions of scriptures and attained the four dhyānas, did not even understand the meaning of a single verse, a single phrase, or a single character. Becoming intimate with evil companions, he fell away from the four dhyānas. Having fallen away from the four dhyānas, he gave rise to evil wrong views and spoke thus: "There is no Buddha, no Dharma, and no nirvāṇa. The śramaṇa Gautama is merely skilled in knowing physiognomy, and therefore is able to know others' minds." At that time the Tathāgata went with Kāśyapa to Sunakkhatta's place. Sunakkhatta the monk saw me coming from afar; having seen me, he immediately gave rise to an evil mind. On account of this evil mind, his living body sank down into the Avīci hell.