Pu Da Wang Jing 普達王經

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Colophon

第 14 冊　No. 0522 普達王經 失譯 共 1 卷 Volume 14, No. 522; Pu Da Wang Jing; Translated by Unknown in 1 scroll

Notes

Date 265-317 from Lancaster (Lancaster 2004, 'K 877')

English Translations

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Summary

This text a king who deeply revered the Buddha and practiced humility, bowing even to monks, which confused and concerned his ministers. To teach them a lesson about the value of human pride, he ordered human and animal heads to be sold in the market—animal heads were bought, but the human head remained unwanted. Later, a monk revealed that the king was once a humble servant in a past life, and his present high status came from faithfully practicing the Dharma. The monk, who was also a servant in that past life, had vowed to guide the king, and now fulfilled that promise by bringing the Buddha, who inspired the entire kingdom to follow the Buddhist path.

Primary Source

Unknown, 《普達王經》 'Pu Da Wang Jing,' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 14, No. 522, Accessed 2016-09-18, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T14n0522.

References

  1. Lancaster, L.R. 2004, The Korean Buddhist Canon: A Descriptive Catalogue, http://www.acmuller.net/descriptive_catalogue.

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