[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) › 98.53 # 法苑珠林 98.53 法苑珠林 98.53 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [98.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.98.53) 如仁王經云。後五濁世比丘比丘尼四部弟子。天龍八部一切神王。國王大臣大子王子。自恃高貴滅破吾法。明作制法。制我弟子比丘比丘尼不聽。造作佛像形佛塔形。立統官制眾安籍記僧。比丘地立。白衣高坐。兵奴為比丘受別請法。知識比丘共為一心。親善比丘為作齋會。求福如外道法。都非吾法。當知爾時正法將滅不久。大王。法末世時。有諸比丘四部弟子國王大臣。各作非法之行。橫與佛法眾僧作大法制。作諸罪過非法非律繫縛比丘。如獄囚法。當爾之時法滅不久。大王。我滅度後未來世中四部弟子。諸小國王大子王子。乃是住持護三寶者。轉更滅破三寶。如師子身中蟲自食師子肉。非外道也。各壞我佛法得大罪過。正教衰薄民無正行。以漸為惡其壽日減。至若干百歲。人壞佛教。無復孝子。六親不和。天神不祐。疾疫惡鬼日來侵害。災怪首尾連禍從衡。死入地獄餓鬼畜生。若出為人。兵奴果報。如響如影。如人夜書火滅字存。三界果報亦復如是。大王。未來世中一切國王太子王子四部弟子。橫與佛弟子書記制戒。如白衣法。如兵奴法。若我弟子比丘比丘尼立籍。為官所使。都非我弟子。是兵奴法。立統官攝僧。典主僧籍。大小僧統共相攝縛。如獄囚法兵奴之法。當爾之時佛法不久。 > As the Benevolent Kings Sūtra says: In the future world of the five corruptions, bhikṣus, bhikṣuṇīs, the fourfold assembly of disciples, the eight classes of devas and nāgas, all divine kings, rulers, ministers, crown princes, and royal princes will presume upon their noble status to destroy my Dharma. They will openly enact regulations forbidding my disciples, the bhikṣus and bhikṣuṇīs, from making images of the Buddha or stūpas of the Buddha. They will establish directors to regulate the assemblies and register the saṃgha in administrative rosters, with bhikṣus standing on the ground while white-robed laity sit high. Soldiers and slaves will become bhikṣus and receive particular invitations, while spiritual friends among the bhikṣus will act with one accord, and closely bonded bhikṣus will hold vegetarian feasts for them, seeking blessings after the manner of non-Buddhists—none of which is my Dharma. You should know that at that time the saddharma will soon perish. Great King, in the age of the Dharma's end, there will be bhikṣus, the fourfold disciples, kings, and ministers who will each commit unrighteous deeds, arbitrarily instituting major regulations against the Buddhadharma and the saṃgha, committing various offenses, and binding bhikṣus contrary to the Dharma and vinaya just like the laws for prison inmates. At that time, the disappearance of the Dharma will not be far off. Great King, in future ages after my parinirvāṇa, the fourfold disciples, minor kings, crown princes, and royal princes—who should be the ones maintaining and protecting the Three Jewels—will instead destroy the Three Jewels, just as the worms within a lion's body devour the lion's own flesh, and not external non-Buddhists. Each harming my Buddhadharma will incur great guilt. As the true teaching decays and the people lack righteous conduct, gradually committing evil, their life spans will decrease by the day down to a hundred years. When people destroy the Buddha's teaching, there will no longer be filial sons, the six relations will be at discord, the devas will not give protection, pestilences and evil ghosts will arrive daily to cause harm, and ominous disasters will follow one after another in linked misfortune across the realm. At death they will enter the hells, hungry ghosts, and animals; if born as humans, they will suffer the retribution of being soldiers or slaves, just like an echo or a shadow, or like someone writing at night where the fire is extinguished but the characters remain. The retributions of the tridhātu are likewise. Great King, in future ages all kings, crown princes, royal princes, and fourfold disciples will arbitrarily register the Buddha's disciples and impose precepts upon them, just like the laws for the white-robed laity and the laws for soldiers and slaves. If my disciples, the bhikṣus and bhikṣuṇīs, are registered on rosters and commandeered by officials, they are by no means my disciples; this is the law of soldiers and slaves. To establish monastic superintendents to control the saṃgha, preside over the saṃgha registries, and have higher and lower saṃgha directors mutually control and bind one another is just like the laws for prisoners and the laws for soldiers and slaves. At that time, the Buddhadharma will not last long. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 98.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.98.52) - [Next: 98.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.98.54) - [Up: 98](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.98) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.98.53) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [仁王護國般若波羅蜜多經疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1709.3.667) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.98.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.98.53) · Pramāṇa