[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) › [諸經要集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123) › 20.8 # 諸經要集 20.8 諸經要集 20.8 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [20.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.20.8) 佛告諸比丘。汝等長夜輪轉生死。所出身血甚多無數。過於恒水及四大海。汝於長夜曾生象中。或截耳鼻頭尾四足。其血無量。或受馬駝驢牛禽獸類等。斷截耳鼻頭足四體。其血無量。或身壞命終棄於塚間。膿血流出其數無量。或墮地獄畜生餓鬼。身壞命終。其流血出亦復如是。或長夜輪轉生死。喪失父母兄弟姊妹六親知識。或喪失錢財為之流淚。甚多無量。過四大海水。 > The Buddha addressed the bhikṣus: 'In wandering through the long night of saṃsāra, the blood shed from your bodies has been exceedingly abundant and innumerable, surpassing the waters of the Ganges and the four great oceans. In the long night, you were once born among elephants, where your ears, noses, heads, tails, and four feet were severed, and the blood was immeasurable; or you received rebirth as horses, camels, donkeys, oxen, and birds and beasts, where your ears, noses, heads, feet, and four limbs were cut off, and the blood was immeasurable; or your bodies decayed and life ended, abandoned in charnel grounds, the pus and blood flowing out in an immeasurable number; or falling into hells, animal realms, and hungry ghosts, your bodies decayed and life ended, and the blood shed was likewise so. Or wandering through the long night of saṃsāra, you lost parents, brothers, sisters, the six classes of kin, and friends, or lost wealth and shed tears for them, exceedingly abundantly and immeasurably, surpassing the waters of the four great oceans.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 20.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.20.7) - [Next: 20.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.20.9) - [Up: 20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.20) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123~en-mt.20.8) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.20.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.20.8) · Pramāṇa