[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) › 99.50 # 法苑珠林 99.50 法苑珠林 99.50 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [99.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.99.50) 復有別院名修多羅院。有一石鍾形如吳樣。如青碧玉可受十斛。鼻上有三十三天像。四面以金銀隱起。東西兩面有大寶珠。陷在腹中。大如五升。八角分曜。狀若華形。周匝作十方諸佛初成道像。至初日出時。鍾上有諸化佛說十二部經。舍衛城童男童女。悉來聽之聞法證聖。犯欲之者則不聞法。摩尼大將以金剛杵擊之。百億世界中聲。聞於光明中悉聞百千釋迦佛說修多羅經。此鍾是拘樓秦佛所造。彼佛滅度後。娑竭龍王收去。至釋迦佛興。龍復將來。至佛滅度已鍾先唱言。却後三月當般涅槃。鍾鼻諸天聞皆洟泣。龍後將去。 > There was also another courtyard called the Sūtra Courtyard. It had a stone bell shaped in the style of Wu, like blue-green jade, which could hold ten bushels. On its suspension lug were images of the Thirty-three Heavens, and its four sides were embossed in gold and silver. On the east and west sides were large precious jewels inset into its belly, as large as five pints, with eight facets radiating light, shaped like flowers. All around it were images of the Buddhas of the ten directions when they first attained awakening. When the sun first rose, transformed Buddhas upon the bell would expound the twelve divisions of scriptures. Young boys and girls from the city of Śrāvastī all came to listen to it, and hearing the Dharma, they realized sagehood. Those who had violated desire could not hear the Dharma. The great general Maṇi struck it with a vajra pestle. Its sound reached across ten billion worlds; within the light, all could hear hundreds of thousands of Śākyamuni Buddhas preaching the sūtras. This bell had been made by Krakucchanda Buddha. After that Buddha's parinirvāṇa, the dragon king Sāgara took it away. When Śākyamuni Buddha arose, the dragon brought it back again. When the Buddha was about to pass into extinction, the bell first proclaimed, 'After three months he shall attain parinirvāṇa.' Hearing this, the devas on the suspension lug all wept. Afterwards, the dragon took it away. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 99.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.99.49) - [Next: 99.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.99.51) - [Up: 99](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.99) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.99.50) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [中天竺舍衛國祇洹寺圖經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1899.2.21) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.99.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.99.50) · Pramāṇa