[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) › [坐禪三昧經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.614) › 2.85 # 坐禪三昧經 2.85 坐禪三昧經 2.85 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.614.2.85) 云何死？一切眾生處處退、落、墮、滅、斷、死，失壽命盡，是名死。先老後死，故名老死。 > What is death? For all sentient beings, in various places, declining, falling, descending, perishing, being severed, dying, and the termination and exhaustion of life-span; this is called death. Aging precedes and death follows; therefore it is called aging and death. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.614.2.84) - [Next: 2.86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.614.2.86) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.614.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.614~en-mt.2.85) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (3) - [རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་པར་འབྱུང་བ་དང་པོ་དང་རྣམ་པར་དབྱེ་བ་བསྟན་པའི་རྒྱ་ཆེར་བཤད་པ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.sastra.pratityasamutpadadivibhanganirdesatika*bo.18) — Classical Tibetan - [དོན་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་གྲངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo.7) — Classical Tibetan - [རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བ་དང་པོ་དང་རྣམ་པར་དབྱེ་བ་བསྟན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.pratityasamutpadadivibhanganirdesa*bo.3) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.614.2.85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.614.2.85) · Pramāṇa