[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) › [出三藏記集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2145) › 11.50 # 出三藏記集 11.50 出三藏記集 11.50 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [11.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2145.11.50) 卷中間尼受大戒法後記云。此土無大比丘尼戒文。斯一部僧法久矣。吳土雖有五百戒比丘尼。而戒是覓歷所出尋之殊。不似聖人所制法。汱道林聲鼓而正之。可謂匡法之棟梁也。法汰去年亦令外國人出少許復不足。慧常涼州得五百戒一卷。直戒戒複之似人之所作。其義淺近。末乃僧純曇充拘夷國來。從雲慕藍寺於高德沙門佛圖舌彌許得此比丘尼大戒及授戒法。受坐已下至劍慕法。遂令佛圖卑為譯。曇摩侍傳之。乃知真是如來所制也。而不止五百數。比丘戒有二百六十問。侍所以言莫知其故也。然以理推之。二百五十及五百。是舉全數耳。又授比丘尼大戒文少。將即用授大比丘法而出其異也。八𤿺賴夷無二。亦當依比丘足耳。亦當略授十七僧迦衛尸沙一章也。又授比丘尼大戒尼三師教授師。更與七尼壇外問內法。壇外問內法於事為重。故外國師云。壇外問。當言正爾。上場眾僧中當問汝。汝當爾答。壇上問。則言。今眾僧中問汝也。正爾。令曇充還拘夷訪授比丘尼大戒。定法須報以為式也。授六法文無乏也。二師而已。無教授師也（上壇僧尼各多益善）卷後又記云。秦建元十五年十一月五日。歲在鶉尾。比丘僧純曇充從丘慈高德沙門佛圖舌彌許。得此授大比丘尼戒儀及二歲戒儀。從受坐至囑授諸雜事。令曇摩侍出。佛圖卑為譯。慧常筆受。凡此諸事。是所施行之急者。若為人師而不練此。此無異於土牛後人也。涼州道人竺道曼。於丘慈因此異事來與燉煌道人。此沙門各各所住祠。或二百或三百人為一部僧。比丘尼向三百人。凡有五祠。各各從所使僧祠依准為界內。無共說戒法也。常暮說戒。說戒之日。比丘尼差三人往白所依僧云。今日當說戒。僧即差二人往詣比丘尼。僧知人數。還白大僧云。比丘尼凡有若干。於某祠清淨說戒。普共聞知。如是三白。比丘尼便自共行籌說戒。如法僧事（曇充云大齊說律六十日竟尼亦寄聽若遇說戒亦寄聽戒唯不與舍羅籌耳）。 > The later record in the middle of the scroll on the ritual for nuns receiving the full ordination states: In this land there was no text for the full precepts of the bhikṣuṇīs; for this singular Saṅgha procedure had long been absent. Although in the land of Wu there were bhikṣuṇīs of the five hundred precepts, those precepts were produced by Mianli, and upon examination they bore no resemblance to the rules instituted by the sage. Dao-lin \[Zhi Daolin\] sounded the drum and corrected them; he may truly be called a pillar supporting the Dharma. Last year, Fa-tai also had a foreigner produce a small portion, but it was still insufficient. Huichang obtained one scroll of the five hundred precepts in Liangzhou, but it was merely a duplication of precepts upon precepts, resembling the work of a human hand; its meanings were shallow and rudimentary. Later, Sengchun and Tancong came from Kuqa, and from the temple of Yunmulan, under the eminent śramaṇa Buddhasama, they obtained these full precepts for bhikṣuṇīs as well as the procedure for conferring ordination, from receiving the seating down to the ritual of Jianmu. Thereupon they had Fotuobei translate it and Dharmapāla transmit it, and only then was it known to be truly instituted by the Tathāgata. Yet the number is not limited to five hundred; the bhikṣu precepts contain two hundred and sixty interrogations. The reason given by Dharmapāla was that no one knew the cause of this. However, deducing it from reason, two hundred and fifty and five hundred are merely stating the round numbers. Furthermore, the text for conferring the full precepts on bhikṣuṇīs is brief; it likely adopts the procedure for conferring ordination on great bhikṣus, only bringing out what is different. The eight pārājikas do not differ; they also ought to rely on what suffices for bhikṣus. It should also briefly confer the section of the seventeen saṅghāvaśeṣas. Furthermore, in conferring the full ordination on bhikṣuṇīs, there are three nun masters and an instructor master, who together with seven \[other\] nuns interrogate regarding the internal matters outside the platform. Interrogating regarding internal matters outside the platform is considered grave in practical procedure. Therefore the foreign masters say: 'When interrogating outside the platform, one should say, "Directly thus, in the midst of the Saṅgha on the platform you will be questioned; you should answer thus." When interrogating on the platform, one then says, "Now in the midst of the Saṅgha you are questioned; it is directly thus."' Tancong was sent back to Kuqa to inquire about the conferring of full ordination on bhikṣuṇīs; once the procedure was settled, a report was required to serve as the model. The text for conferring the six dharmas has no deficiency; there are only two masters, and no instructor master. (On the platform, the more monks and nuns, the better.) The record at the end of the scroll further states: On the fifth day of the eleventh month in the fifteenth year of the Jianyuan reign of the Qin \[379 CE\], the year being in Chunwei, the bhikṣus Sengchun and Tancong obtained from the eminent śramaṇa of Kucha, Buddhasama, this ceremonial for conferring the full precepts on bhikṣuṇīs and the two-year ceremonial for the precepts, from receiving the seating to the miscellaneous matters of entrustment. They had Dharmapāla produce it, Fotuobei translate it, and Huichang serve as scribal recorder. All these matters are of pressing urgency for actual practice. If one acts as a teacher of others without mastering these, one is no different from an earthen ox trailing behind others. The Liangzhou cleric Zhu Daoman, on account of this unusual matter, came from Kucha to give it to the Dunhuang clerics. The temples in which these śramaṇas resided each numbered two hundred or three hundred persons as one Saṅgha. The bhikṣuṇīs numbered nearly three hundred persons, with five temples in all. Each conformed to the temple of the monks they depended on to establish their boundary; they had no joint ritual for reciting the precepts. They regularly recited the precepts at dusk. On the day of reciting the precepts, the bhikṣuṇīs dispatched three persons to go and inform the monks on whom they depended, saying, 'Today the precepts are to be recited.' The monks then dispatched two persons to visit the bhikṣuṇīs; having ascertained the number, they returned and informed the great monks, saying, 'The bhikṣuṇīs number so-and-so many; in such-and-such a temple they are reciting the precepts in purity.' This was announced to all. Having made three such announcements, the bhikṣuṇīs then distributed the tallies among themselves and recited the precepts according to the standard Saṅgha ritual. (Tancong said: 'During the great fast, the Vinaya is recited for sixty days to completion; the nuns are also lodged to listen. If they encounter the recitation of the precepts, they are also lodged to listen to the precepts, only that they are not given the śalākā tallies.') > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 11.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2145.11.49) - [Next: 11.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2145.11.51) - [Up: 11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2145.11) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2145~en-mt.11.50) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2145.11.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2145.11.50) · Pramāṇa