84000新英譯佛典：《梵誌長爪所問經》
30 Dec 2021
佛陀在靈鷲山為四眾說法，爾時有一婆羅門梵誌長爪來詣佛所，問佛所宣說的業因果無謬之理，繼以十問，欲知佛先作何業，而今獲得金剛身乃至頂上肉髻等種種相。佛陀一一作答，告知每一種相的業因，大致歸納為八關齋戒，並自述於前生如何持戒。梵誌長爪投杖於地，向佛頂禮，誓願皈依三寶並受持八關齋戒。
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30 Dec 2021
佛陀在靈鷲山為四眾說法，爾時有一婆羅門梵誌長爪來詣佛所，問佛所宣說的業因果無謬之理，繼以十問，欲知佛先作何業，而今獲得金剛身乃至頂上肉髻等種種相。佛陀一一作答，告知每一種相的業因，大致歸納為八關齋戒，並自述於前生如何持戒。梵誌長爪投杖於地，向佛頂禮，誓願皈依三寶並受持八關齋戒。
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30 Dec 2021
As the Buddha teaches the Dharma to the fourfold saṅgha on Vulture Peak Mountain, the brahmin and wandering mendicant Dīrghanakha approaches and questions the Buddha about his doctrine concerning the incontrovertible relationship between karma and its effects in the world.
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28 Dec 2021
This past Saga Dawa, we enlisted the pro-bono help of Li Yijing (李一静) to design the layout of a special edition publication of one of our favorite sūtras, The Hundred Deeds. Here, Yijing shares her experience of coming into the Dharma, getting creative with the sūtras, and the challenges of spearheading a truly global project in the middle of a pandemic. Please join us in thanking Yijing and her team for their beautiful offering.
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23 Dec 2021
At Prince Jeta’s Grove in Śrāvastī, the Buddha teaches his saṅgha about the benefits of having moral discipline and the importance of guarding it. It is difficult, he says, to obtain a human life and encounter the teachings of a buddha, let alone to then take monastic vows and maintain moral discipline.
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23 Dec 2021
佛在舍衛城祇樹給孤獨園為僧眾開示「戒」之利益和護戒的重要。佛陀教導言，獲得人身、值遇佛法已是難事，更遑論是又能出家受戒並持守淨戒。人生必有一死，相較於失去一次生命，破戒之果更為嚴重，將於億萬來世中受報。世尊繼而以偈頌讚揚戒律，稱其為修持佛法、達至涅槃之必要基礎。經文最後，世尊以講述追逐短暫世間享樂之愚癡為此經文之總結。
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16 Dec 2021
King Śreṇya Bimbisāra of Magadha approaches the Buddha and asks him how a past action can appear before the mind at the moment of death. The Buddha presents the analogy of a sleeping person who dreams of a beautiful woman and on waking foolishly longs to find her. He cites this as an example of how an action of the distant past, which has arisen from perception and subsequent afflictive emotions and then ceased, appears to the mind on the brink of death.
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16 Dec 2021
摩揭陀國的影勝王前來問佛，為何有情先所造業，臨命終時皆悉現前。佛告影勝王，譬如男子於睡夢中見一美女，醒來後仍癡癡戀慕不捨。有如此例，眾生眼見於色、起貪嗔癡而造作諸業，作已滅壞，至命終時意識將滅，所作之業皆悉現前。
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14 Dec 2021
84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha (84000.co) proudly announces the English-speaking world’s first complete catalog of the collected treatises—the Tibetan translations of works by the great Indian Buddhist masters explaining and elaborating on the words of the Buddha—known as the Tengyur.
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9 Dec 2021
佛陀在舍衛城為眾說法，爾時文殊師利菩薩持一寶蓋覆如來上。天人善勝在此會中，問文殊師利於此供養是否滿足。文殊師利答言，志求菩提者供養如來未曾厭足。善勝復問，應為何故供養如來，文殊答之以四事。
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9 Dec 2021
The bodhisattva Mañjuśrī approaches the Buddha, who is teaching the Dharma in Śrāvastī, and offers him the shade of a jeweled parasol. The god Susīma, who is in the audience, asks Mañjuśrī whether he is satisfied with his offering, to which Mañjuśrī replies that those who seek enlightenment should never be content with making offerings to the Buddha.
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