84000新英譯佛典：《勤授長者所問經》（大正藏：《大寶積經勤授長者會 第二十八》
30 Jun 2022
一時，佛在舍衛國祇樹給孤獨園，與眾比丘俱。爾時，舍衛大城有一長者名為勤授，與五百長者聚會共議修持大乘之事。為解除疑惑，勤授與五百長者前往祇樹園詣見世尊。世尊言說菩薩應如何生起大悲，於身及一切樂具無所執著，進而教導觀身無常與不凈之法。
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30 Jun 2022
一時，佛在舍衛國祇樹給孤獨園，與眾比丘俱。爾時，舍衛大城有一長者名為勤授，與五百長者聚會共議修持大乘之事。為解除疑惑，勤授與五百長者前往祇樹園詣見世尊。世尊言說菩薩應如何生起大悲，於身及一切樂具無所執著，進而教導觀身無常與不凈之法。
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30 Jun 2022
While the Buddha is residing in Anāthapiṇḍada’s pleasure garden in Śrāvastī with a great assembly of monks, elsewhere in Śrāvastī the eminent householder Vīradatta hosts a meeting with five hundred householders to discuss certain questions regarding the practice of the Great Vehicle.
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16 Jun 2022
在本經中，世尊講述了忉利天一位天子的前世因緣。天子預見自己命終之後將墮王舍城而受豬身，在極大的痛苦中，他因帝釋天的勸導而在臨終前的最後時刻歸命三寶，由此而生至兜率天。正如經文結尾的偈頌所言，這個簡短的本生故事顯示了歸依三寶的救度之力。
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16 Jun 2022
In The Magnificent Account About a Sow, the Buddha recounts the earlier events surrounding a god in Trāyastriṃśa heaven who foresaw that he would be reborn as a pig in Rājagṛha. At the encouragement of Śakra, this god, in the final moments of agony before his death, took refuge in the Three Jewels and thereby attained rebirth in the even higher Tuṣita heaven.
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14 Jun 2022
此篇《般若波羅蜜多一萬八千頌》英譯本源自十八世紀德格版《甘珠爾》中所收錄的藏文譯本，與《八千頌般若經》同為於南亞和中南亞地區形成的長篇般若經的版本，很可能是出現於公元五百年之前。經文中包含有現存最古老的長篇般若經（吉爾吉特手稿）中的許多段落，且與《甘珠爾》中的《十萬頌般若經》和《二萬五千頌般若經》結構相似，但與《丹珠爾》中獅子賢論師的《二萬五千頌般若經合論》的結構有所不同。
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14 Jun 2022
The Perfection of Wisdom in Eighteen Thousand Lines is one version of the Long Perfection of Wisdom sūtras that developed in South and South-Central Asia in tandem with the Eight Thousand version, probably during the first five hundred years of the Common Era. It contains many of the passages in the oldest extant Long Perfection of Wisdom text (the Gilgit manuscript in Sanskrit), and is similar in structure to the other versions of the Long Perfection of Wisdom sūtras (the One Hundred Thousand and Twenty-Five Thousand) in Tibetan in the Kangyur.
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12 Jun 2022
On the auspicious day of Saga Dawa Düchen—commemorating the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and Parinirvāṇa—84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha announces that 25 percent of the 70,000 page Tibetan Kangyur has now been published in English translation and made freely available to the world. This significant milestone in 84000’s one-hundred-year project has been reached along with the publication of a translation of one the longest sūtras in the Tibetan Buddhist canon, The Perfection of Wisdom in Eighteen Thousand Lines.
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12 Jun 2022
於此紀念佛陀誕生、成道與涅槃的薩噶達瓦佛吉祥日，【八萬四千 • 佛典傳譯】隆重宣佈：長達七萬頁的《甘珠爾》經典中已有超過總數四分之一的經典被翻譯成英文並於84000雲端藏經閣發布了。與此同時，84000也發布了長篇經典《般若波羅蜜多一萬八千頌》The Perfection of Wisdom in Eighteen Thousand Lines.。至此，84000的百年願景達到了一個嶄新的里程碑！
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