[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) › 82.9 # 法苑珠林 82.9 法苑珠林 82.9 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [82.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.82.9) 怪哉臨命終　破我戒瓔珞 以戒莊嚴身　不用殯葬具 人身既難得　遭值戒復難 願捨百千命　不毀破禁戒 無量百千劫　時乃值遇戒 閻浮世界中　人身極難得 雖復得人身　值正法倍難 時復值法寶　愚者不知取 善能分別者　此事亦復難 戒寶入我手　云何復欲奪 乃是怨憎者　非我之所親 > 'How strange that as I approach the end of life, > You would break the necklace of my precepts! > I adorn my body with the precepts, > With no need for funeral accoutrements. > Since a human body is already hard to obtain, > To encounter the precepts is even harder. > I would rather surrender hundreds of thousands of lives > Than violate and break the restrictive precepts. > Only once in immeasurable hundreds of thousands of kalpas > Does one ever encounter the precepts. > Within the world of Jambudvīpa, > A human body is extremely hard to obtain. > Though one may again obtain a human body, > To encounter the saddharma is doubly hard. > And when one occasionally encounters the treasure of Dharma, > The foolish do not know to take it. > One who is able to distinguish it well— > This matter is also difficult. > The treasure of precepts has entered my hands; > Why would you wish to snatch it away? > This is to act as an enemy, > Not as one dear to me.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 82.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.82.8) - [Next: 82.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.82.10) - [Up: 82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.82) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.82.9) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.82.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.82.9) · Pramāṇa