A Brahmin’s Checks the Purity of Water (Fanzhi Ji Shui Jing Jing) 梵志計水淨經
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梵志計水淨經 失譯 共 1 卷 A Brahmin’s Checks the Purity of Water (Fanzhi Ji Shui Jing Jing); by an unknown translator in 1 scroll.Notes
Correspondence with the Pāli Canon and date 317-420 from Lancaster. (Lancaster 2004, 'K 671')English Translation
From the Pāli Vatthūpamasūtta (Majjhima Nikāya 7)Summary
The Buddha, after achieving enlightenment, encounters a Brahman who believes in purification through water rituals. The Buddha explains that true purification comes from abandoning 21 defilements that lead to suffering and cultivating virtues like loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity. He emphasizes that external cleansing is ineffective against inner impurities, and that virtuous conduct is the path to true liberation. The Brahman, convinced by the Buddha's teachings, takes refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha, vowing to abstain from killing. (AI generated)Primary Source
Unknown, trans., 《梵志計水淨經》 'Fanzhi Ji Shui Jing Jing (Vatthūpamasūtta),' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 1, No. 51, Accessed 2016-07-09, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T01n0051.References
- Bodhi. 1995. The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya. Simon and Schuster.
- Lancaster, Lewis R. 2004. The Korean Buddhist Canon: A Descriptive Catalogue, http://www.acmuller.net/descriptive_catalogue.
- Nyanaponika, Thera, (trans.) 1998. “Vatthupama Sutta: The Simile of the Cloth.” Access to Insight (Legacy Edition). http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.007.nypo.html, MN 7.