英語訳
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On the twelfth day of the twelfth month of the fifth year of Tenpyō-Shōhō (753 CE), the Great Tang monk Ganjin (Jianzhen) arrived in Japan and resided at Daianji Temple. In the fourth month of the following year, he established a Hīnayāna ordination platform (kaidan) at the Southern Capital (Nara). This was the very beginning of ordination platforms in Japan. The ordination platforms at Tōshōdaiji, Kanzeonji, Yakushiji, and others were all established by Ganjin under imperial decree. For this reason, in our country, Ganjin is referred to as the patriarch of the transmission of precepts. The Four-Part Vinaya (Shibun-kai) upon which he relied is Hīnayāna, while the Brahmā Net precepts (Bonmō-kai) are provisional Mahāyāna. [Citations from ancestral writings and commentaries follow.]
**○ The Five Precepts:** (1) Not to kill living beings; (2) Not to steal; (3) Not to engage in sexual misconduct; (4) Not to speak falsely; (5) Not to consume alcohol.
**The Eight Precepts:** Precepts one through five are the same as above. (6) Not to apply perfumes or ornaments, nor to watch or listen to singing and dancing; (7) Not to sleep or sit on high, wide, or luxuriously adorned beds or seats; (8) Not to eat at improper times (two meals per day).
**The Ten Good Precepts:** Three of the body: not to kill, not to steal, not to engage in sexual misconduct. Four of the mouth: not to lie, not to speak ill of others, not to speak duplicitously, not to speak frivolously. Three of the mind: not to be covetous, not to harbor anger, not to hold false views. Violating these is called the Ten Evils.
**The Five Categories (of monastic offenses):** (1) Pārājika; (2) Saṃghāvaśeṣa; (3) Pāyattika; (4) Pratideśanīya; (5) Duṣkṛta.
**The Seven Clusters (of offenses):** (1) Pārājika; (2) Saṃghāvaśeṣa; (3) Sthūlātyaya; (4) Pāyattika; (5) Pratideśanīya; (6) Duṣkṛta; (7) Evil deeds and evil speech.
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**The Two Hundred and Fifty Precepts:** A brief verse states: Four grave offenses, four forfeitures, two indefinite cases, thirteen cases of saṃghāvaśeṣa, seven methods of settling disputes, thirty cases of forfeiture and expiation making sixty, ninety single expiations, one hundred rules of training—these are named the Two Hundred and Fifty Precepts. **The Five Hundred Precepts:** These are conferred twice upon bhikkhunīs (nuns). The Vinaya master Daoxuan stated: "The two treasures of the Dharma—without the Sangha, they cannot be propagated; where the Sangha treasure resides, without precepts it cannot stand." [End of citation.]
**○** The *Suvarṇaprabhāsottama Sūtra* (Golden Light Sūtra) states: "The five precepts are also a gateway of the Mahāyāna Dharma." [Etc.]
**○** The *Brahmā Net Sūtra* (translated by Kumārajīva, folio 7) states: "The precepts are like the bright sun and moon, and like jewels on a garland. The bodhisattvas as numerous as dust motes attain perfect enlightenment through them." [Continuing to:] "When sentient beings receive the Buddha's precepts, they immediately enter the station of all Buddhas; their station is the same as that of the Great Enlightened One, and they are truly children of all Buddhas." [End of citation.] [Ancestral writings, vol. 16, pp. 36–37; Two Meanings, etc.]
**○** The *Āgama Sūtras* state: "If one turns away from the gate of precepts such as the Two Hundred and Fifty Precepts and violates even one precept, that person is a thief within the nation." Etc.
**△** The *Mohe Zhiguan Wenji* (Monku), vol. 8 (folio 59), states: "In the evil age after the Buddha's passing, monks who do not accord with the precepts, though they explain the Dharma of precepts and thereby obtain a livelihood, do not joyfully practice the Dharma of precepts," etc. [End of citation.]
**△** The *Miaole* (Myōraku), vol. 8 (concluding section, 4), states: "Those who do not accord with the precepts are people who have left home and abandoned the world, cut off attachments and yearned for the Way, and ought to take the Five Portions [of the Dharma-body incense] as their proper standard. Yet they still violate even the Hīnayāna precepts and instead slight the Great Teaching—this is an extremely grave harm." [Continuing to:] "When it says they 'explain precepts and obtain a livelihood,' this means they cling to what they preach but do not diligently practice it, and focus entirely on sustaining themselves. Such people are called 'those who falsely imitate the Three Learnings, feign the Three Learnings, steal the Three Learnings, and deceive with the Three Learnings,' and they seek to belittle those of the comprehensive teaching." [End of citation.] [Keiun-shō, vols. 33 and 35; Chūsei, etc.]
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**○** The *Kenkai-ron* (Treatise Manifesting the Precepts) states: "Now that the white ox cart has been bestowed, one need not use the three carts in the morning; having attained the family estate at evening, why should one still need to remove dung? Therefore the sūtra says: 'Straightforwardly abandoning expedient means, only preaching the Unsurpassed Way.'" [End of citation.]
**△** The *Kenyō Daikai-ron* (Treatise Manifesting and Extolling the Great Precepts) states: "If there were no separate bodhisattva precepts, outside a cow's hoof-print there ought to be no great ocean. To say there is none—how is that different from a frog in a well? If one grants that there is, then one must know that beyond the lesser precepts, there exist separately the great Mahāyāna bodhisattva precepts." [End of citation.]
**△** The *Lotus Sūtra*, Chapter on Expedient Means, states: "If I were to teach even one person using the Hīnayāna, I would fall into miserliness and greed. This must not be." And further: "I will never use the Hīnayāna to save and ferry sentient beings," etc. [End of citation.]
**△** The Patriarch of the Lotus (Nichiren) (Inner writings, vol. 26, folio 19): "The Vinaya school is entirely Hīnayāna. In India (Moonland/月氏), it was the lesser teaching of the first five hundred years of the Age of the True Dharma's thousand years. In Japan, during the Age of the Semblance Dharma, when the Lotus and Tendai schools had not yet spread, it served provisionally to condition people's spiritual faculties. It is like the morning star that precedes the rising sun, like the dark clouds that arise before rain falls. After the sun has risen and the rain has fallen, of what use are the star and the clouds? To practice it in the Age of the Degenerate Dharma would be like administering a mild medicine to a severe illness, or loading a great stone onto a small boat. One would only suffer in body and waste time without result—like flowers without fruit. Therefore, the Great Teacher Dengyō appeared in the age of Semblance and Degenerate Dharma and established the Trace-Gate ordination platform on Mt. Hiei, whereupon the Two Hundred and Fifty Precepts were immediately and completely abandoned. Moreover, the latter disciples of Ganjin—fourteen persons from the seven great temples of Nara,
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and more than three hundred persons in all—took vows and became Mahāyāna practitioners, and the entire country rose up and abandoned the Hīnayāna monastic code. One should look to the writings on receiving precepts," etc. [The above is a paraphrase; the full text should be reverently consulted.] [Inner Record, vol. 4, pp. 33–34; Keimon, vol. 11, p. 55; for further reference.]
**○** The Patriarch of the Lotus (same work) states: "The Four-Part Vinaya, the Ten-Recitation Vinaya, and others are entirely Hīnayāna. Among the Hīnayāna, they are the lowest and most minor disciplinary codes." [End of citation.] [Daikai-ron, vol. 1, folio 13 onwards.]
**○** Adherents of the Vinaya school are demons of Māra and enemies of the nation. [Inner Record, vols. 13, 29, 26; with citations.]
**○** The *Brahmā Net Sūtra*, the precept text on receiving offerings without shame, states: "If a son of the Buddha leaves home with a faithful heart and receives the correct precepts of the Buddha, but then arouses the intention to violate and break the sacred precepts, that person must not receive the offerings of any donor. Nor may that person walk upon the land of the king. Nor may that person drink the water of the king's realm. Five thousand great demons will constantly block that person's way, calling out 'Great Thief!' If that person enters into halls, cities, villages, or dwellings, demons will constantly sweep away the person's footprints. All people in the world will revile that person, saying 'Thief within the Buddha's Dharma!' All sentient beings will not wish to lay eyes on that person. One who violates the precepts is no different from an animal; no different from a block of wood." [End of citation.] [Yoshan Commentary, lower vol. 2, pp. 54–55.]
**○** *Kenkai-ron*, vol. 1 (folio 36): "Not following the ordinance of the Lotus Sūtra, one further studies the lesser monastic code of the śrāvakas." [End of citation.]
**○** Also states: "Now, following the Lotus Sūtra, the Hīnayāna is not permitted." [End of citation.] [This passage has not yet been located.]
**△** The *Lotus Sūtra* states: "This sūtra is difficult to uphold. If there is one who upholds it even briefly," [continuing to:] "this one is courageous, this one is diligent—this one is named a keeper of the precepts and a practitioner of dhūtaguṇa." [End of citation.] [Ancestral writings, vol. 38, p. 21; also vol. 32, p. 7, etc.]
**○** *Mohe Zhiguan* (Makashikan), vol. 2, citing the *Mahāprajñāpāramitā Śāstra* (Daichidoron), states: "It is better to arouse the mind of a mangy jackal afflicted with disease than to give rise to a śrāvaka