[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) › [佛說觀佛三昧海經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.643) › 5.20 # 佛說觀佛三昧海經 5.20 佛說觀佛三昧海經 5.20 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [5.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.643.5.20) 佛告阿難：「云何名劍輪地獄？劍輪地獄者：縱廣正等五十由旬，滿中劍樹，其樹多少數如稻、麻、竹、葦，一一劍樹高四十由旬，八萬四千劍輪為葉；八萬四千劍輪為華；八萬四千劍輪為果；八萬四千沸銅為枝。世間自有愚癡眾生，樂殺無厭，如此罪人臨命終時，遇大熱病，即作念言：『我今身體時熱時寒，舉身堅強猶如鐵碪？』即作願言：『得金剛劍割却此患，樂不可言。』是時獄卒即自化身，如己父母親友之形，在其人前而告之言：『我有祕法，如卿所念當用相遺。』罪人聞已心甚愛念急急欲得。氣絕命終，如馬奔走生劍華中，無量劍刃削骨破肉，碎如豆許。復有鐵鳥從樹上下挑眼啄耳，有大羅剎手捉鐵斧破頭出腦，鐵狗來舐。死已唱活，驅令上樹，未至樹端身碎如塵，一日之中身經諸樹；一夜之中復經諸樹；一日一夜殺身如塵不可稱數。殺人罪故受如此殃，經八萬億歲生畜生中，身常負重死復剝皮。經五百世還生人中，貧窮短命多病消瘦，過是已後遇善知識發菩提心。」 > The Buddha told Ānanda: "What is called the sword-wheel hell? As for the sword-wheel hell: it is precisely fifty yojanas in length and breadth, filled with sword-trees, the number of trees being as numerous as rice, hemp, bamboo, and reeds. Each sword-tree is forty yojanas tall, having eighty-four thousand sword-wheels as leaves, eighty-four thousand sword-wheels as flowers, eighty-four thousand sword-wheels as fruits, and eighty-four thousand streams of boiling copper as branches. In the world there are foolish sentient beings who delight in killing without satiation. When such a sinful person approaches death, he contracts a great fever, and then thinks: 'My body is now sometimes hot and sometimes cold, my whole body stiff and hard like an iron anvil.' He then makes a wish, saying: 'If I could obtain a vajra sword to cut away this ailment, the joy would be unspeakable.' At that time, a hell warden transforms his body into the form of the person's own parents or close friends, stands before him, and tells him: 'I have a secret method; in accordance with what you wish, I shall bestow it upon you.' When the sinful person hears this, his mind is filled with fond yearning, and he urgently desires to obtain it. His breath expires and he dies, and like a galloping horse, he is born amid the sword-flowers. Immeasurable sword blades pare his bones and tear his flesh, shattering him into pieces as small as beans. Furthermore, iron birds descend from the trees, gouging out his eyes and pecking at his ears; a great rākṣasa holds an iron axe in his hand, breaking his head and spilling his brain, which iron dogs come to lap up. After he dies, he is summoned back to life and driven to climb the trees. Before reaching the treetops, his body is shattered like dust. In the course of a day, his body passes through the various trees; in the course of a night, he again passes through the various trees; in a single day and single night, his body is destroyed like dust, beyond all reckoning. Because of the sin of killing people, he suffers such calamity. After eighty trillion years, he is born among animals, his body constantly bearing heavy burdens and having its skin flayed after death. After five hundred lives, he is reborn among humans, poor, short-lived, sickly, and emaciated. After this has passed, he encounters a kalyāṇamitra and gives rise to bodhicitta." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 5.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.643.5.19) - [Next: 5.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.643.5.21) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.643.5) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.643~en-mt.5.20) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [經律異相](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.50.11) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.643.5.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.643.5.20) · Pramāṇa