[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) › 8.75 # 法苑珠林 8.75 法苑珠林 8.75 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [8.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.8.75) 說此偈已各還梵世。颰陀波羅。汝今當知。時彼國王十善化人者。久已成佛。毘婆尸如來是。善稱比丘尸棄如來是。時千童子豈異人乎。今拘留秦佛乃至最後樓至如來是。跋陀婆羅。汝今當知。我與賢劫千菩薩。從彼佛所。聞三寶名。始發阿耨菩提心。其事如是。佛告跋陀婆羅菩薩言。過去無數阿僧祇劫。此娑婆世界有一大國名波羅奈。王名梵德。常以善法化諸人民。以國付子。出家學道得辟支佛。踊身虛空化十八變。時千梵王各以衣裓。盛諸妙華。至優曇林中。供養辟支佛。白佛言。大德。為我說法。時辟支佛踊身虛空化十八變。舒手現足。中有一梵王。名曰慧見。告餘梵言。我見辟支佛受持五戒。以戒齋法當行十善觀諸緣起。以此善根迴向甚深阿耨菩提。願我作佛。過於辟支佛百千萬億。時千梵王命終之後。於娑婆世界千四天下為千轉輪王。壽命八萬四千歲。臨終時。雪山之中有一婆羅門。聰明多智。壽命半劫。於先經中聞過去佛。號栴檀莊嚴如來。彼佛為說甚深檀波羅蜜。不見施受心行平等。時大仙人聞此事已。從雪山出詣千聖王讚說施法。時千聖王各以國土付其太子。出家學道。時千聖王於雪山中各立草菴。求無上道。即獲五通。飛騰空虛。壽命一劫。時雪山中有大夜叉。身長四千里。利牙上出高八十里。面十二里。眼出迸血光如融銅。左手持劍右手持叉。住聖王前高聲唱言。我今飢渴無所飯食。惟王矜愍施少飲食。時千聖王告夜叉言。我等誓願一切施與。各各以水澡夜叉手。授以仙菓而令食之。夜叉得菓怒棄置地。告聖王言。我父夜叉噉人精氣。我母羅剎常噉人心飲人熱血。我今飢急唯須人心血。何用菓為。時千聖王告夜叉言。一切難捨無過己身。我等今日不能捨心持用相與。是時夜叉即說偈言。 > Having spoken this verse, they each returned to the Brahma world. Bhadrapāla, you should know that the king of that country who transformed people through the ten virtuous deeds long ago attained buddhahood: he is Vipaśyin Tathāgata. The bhikṣu Good Fame is Śikhin Tathāgata. How could those thousand youths have been other people? They are Kakusandha Buddha up to the final one, Rocana Tathāgata. Bhadrapāla, you should know that I, together with the thousand bodhisattvas of the Bhadrakalpa, first gave rise to the mind of anuttarasamyaksaṃbodhi upon hearing the names of the Three Jewels in the presence of that Buddha. Such was that matter. > > The Buddha told Bodhisattva Bhadrapāla, 'Countless asaṃkhyeya kalpas in the past, in this Sahā world there was a great kingdom named Vārāṇasī. The king was named Brahmaguṇa. He constantly transformed the people with wholesome dharmas. Handing over the state to his son, he left home to study the Way and became a pratyekabuddha. Leaping into the empty sky, he manifested eighteen transformations. At that time, a thousand Brahmā kings, each holding wonderful flowers in the folds of their garments, came into the udumbara grove to make offerings to the pratyekabuddha and said to him: "O Great Virtuous One, preach the Dharma for us!" The pratyekabuddha then leaped into the sky and manifested eighteen transformations, stretching out his hands and showing his feet. Among them, one Brahmā king named Wisdom Vision told the other Brahmās: "I see the pratyekabuddha upholding the five precepts; through the rules of precepts and fasts, one should practice the ten virtues and contemplate the links of dependent origination. Directing these roots of goodness toward the profound anuttarasamyaksaṃbodhi, may I become a Buddha, surpassing pratyekabuddhas a hundred thousand myriads of koṭīs \[of times\]!" > > After their lives ended, the thousand Brahmā kings became a thousand cakravartins over the four continents of the Sahā world, with a lifespan of eighty-four thousand years. When their lives were about to end, in the Snowy Mountains there was a brahman of great intelligence and wisdom whose lifespan was half a kalpa. In a previous scripture, he had heard of a past Buddha named Candana-alaṃkāra Tathāgata, who had preached the profound dānapāramitā for him—not seeing giver or recipient, his mind practicing impartiality. Having heard of this matter, the great seer came out from the Snowy Mountains, went to the thousand holy kings, and praised and explained the practice of giving. The thousand holy kings each entrusted their realm to their crown prince, left home to study the Way, and built grass huts in the Snowy Mountains to seek the unexcelled Way. They immediately obtained the five supernormal knowledges, flew and soared in the sky, and their lifespan was one kalpa. > > At that time, in the Snowy Mountains there was a great yakṣa four thousand li in height, with sharp fangs protruding upward eighty li high, a face twelve li wide, and eyes spouting blood that gleamed like molten copper. Holding a sword in his left hand and a trident in his right hand, he stood before the holy kings and called out in a loud voice: "I am now hungry and thirsty with nothing to eat! May the kings take pity and bestow a little drink and food!" The thousand holy kings told the yakṣa: "We have vowed to give away everything." They each washed the yakṣa's hands with water, gave him immortal fruits, and told him to eat them. Receiving the fruits, the yakṣa angrily cast them to the ground and said to the holy kings: "My father is a yakṣa who devours the vitality of humans; my mother is a rākṣasī who constantly devours human hearts and drinks warm human blood! I am now in urgent hunger and need only human heart and blood—what use are fruits to me?" Then the thousand holy kings said to the yakṣa: "Among all things hard to relinquish, none surpasses one's own body. Today we cannot relinquish our hearts and give them to you." 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