Sutra Spoken on the River Ganges (Heng Shui Jing) 恒水經

Translated by Fa Ju in 1 scroll.

Colophon

恒水經 西晉 法炬譯 共 1 卷 Sutra Spoken on the River Ganges (Heng Shui Jing); Translated by Fa Ju in the Western Jin in 1 scroll.

Notes

Relation to Pāli text and date 290-307 from Lancaster (2004, 'K 675')

English Translations

None

Parallels

Uposatha (Aṅguttara Nikāya 7.20) In: Bodhi 2012, The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: A Complete Translation of the Anguttara Nikaya, Simon and Schuster. Also at https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/ud/ud.5.05.than.html.

Summary

The Buddha, surrounded by disciples and a large assembly, arrives at the Ganges River. During a discourse, the Buddha explains the difficulty of obtaining human form, encountering the Buddha's teachings, entering the Buddhist path, and upholding its precepts. He emphasizes the importance of adhering to the precepts, comparing the consequences of violating them to various unpleasant analogies, and highlights that the Buddha Dharma does not increase or decrease with followers. The Buddha stresses the rarity and importance of the sutras and states that he will not discourse on them anymore. (AI generated)

Primary Source

Fa Ju, trans., 《恒水經》 'Heng Shui Jing,' in Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 《大正新脩大藏經》, in Takakusu Junjiro, ed., (Tokyo: Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō Kankōkai, 1988), Vol. 1, No. 33, Accessed 2016-07-09, http://tripitaka.cbeta.org/T01n0033.

References

  1. Lancaster 2004, 'K 675'.
  2. Nanjio 1883, pp. 147-148.

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