Chinese
耶!然后又逐渐减损,到六百万年时,生为湿热。之后如前一样,寿命减损的过失,到九万岁时,因观看而生满足的贪欲。由此减损五百年时,因欢笑而生满足的贪欲。由此又减损五百年时,因触摸而生满足的贪欲。这些是烦恼逐渐粗重,功德逐渐减少,过失逐渐增多的缘故。据说那些时候,有时也发生饥荒和黑暗的状况,那时,就像众生共同的福德产生日月一样,星辰也随之出现。在那之后,福德和光明,寿命和享受,以及身体的体积等逐渐减损,从二合的贪欲中产生了胎生。那时,依靠种植稻米的田地为生,但也盛行偷盗等事,为了消除争端,进行分配,结果分配者自己的份额被取消,大家都信任他,于是立他为国王,称为大众敬奉的国王。此外,民众中,舍弃家庭,像持戒一样的人被称为婆罗门,维持家庭,尊敬父母等长辈的人被称为耆旧种姓,不认为父母和长辈等值得尊敬,经常致力于身体的三种不善行,行为粗暴的人,就是民众或旃陀罗种姓。这些是略述天界的形成方式。恶趣如何形成呢?天人和人类以大小不等的贪嗔痴三毒积累的业力,化为阎罗王及其眷属,各种兵器也因各自的业力显现为蛇。因此,受苦的众生,如无间地狱等八热地狱,以及在其北面的近处有八寒地狱。这些地狱之外,还有十六个近边地狱,都是由业力形成的。因积累贪欲之业,形成饿鬼界,有外障、内障、共障和特障等。因愚痴之业,形成畜生界,互相吞食,以及役使等,饱受损害之苦。如此,如果问器情世界形成的量有多少,那么无间地狱中一个众生出生后,痛苦不堪。
English
Yes! Then gradually decreasing again, when it reaches six million years, it is born as warm and moist. Then, as before, due to the fault of decreasing lifespan, when it reaches ninety thousand years, craving arises from being satisfied by looking. From that, when five hundred years are reduced, craving arises from being satisfied by laughter. From that, when another five hundred years are reduced, craving arises from being satisfied by touch. These are because the afflictions gradually become coarser, virtues gradually decrease, and faults gradually increase. It is said that during those times, there were also times of famine and darkness. At that time, just as the common merit of beings produced the sun and moon, the planets and stars also appeared. After that, merit and light, lifespan and enjoyment, and the size of the body gradually decreased, and from the craving of union, womb-born beings appeared. At that time, they relied on cultivating rice fields for sustenance, but theft and other things also became prevalent. In order to resolve disputes, they made distributions, but as a result, the distributor's own share was cancelled. Everyone trusted him, so they appointed him as king, calling him the king revered by the masses. Furthermore, among the people, those who abandoned their homes and took to purity were called Brahmins, those who maintained their homes and respected their parents and elders were called the Jains. Those who did not consider parents and elders worthy of respect, constantly engaged in the three unwholesome actions of the body, and behaved rudely were the common people or the Chandalas. These are a brief account of how the higher realms are formed. How are the lower realms formed? Gods and humans accumulate the karma of the three poisons of greed, anger, and ignorance, in varying degrees, and are born as Yama and his retinue. The various types of weapons also appear as snakes due to the karmic visions of each individual. Therefore, sentient beings who experience suffering, such as the Avici Hell and the other eight hot hells, and the eight cold hells located nearby to the north of them. Outside of these hells, there are also sixteen peripheral hells, all formed by the power of karma. By accumulating the karma of desire, the realm of the pretas is formed, with external, internal, common, and specific obscurations, and so on. By the karma of ignorance, the realm of animals is formed, where they devour each other, and are exhausted by exploitation and other forms of harm. Thus, if one asks what the measure of the formation of the container and its contents is, then when a single sentient being is born in the Avici Hell, they suffer greatly.
Tibetan
་བསྔལ་མྱོང་བ་དེ་མ་ཐར་གྱི་ཡུན་ལ་སྣོད་ཆགས་པའི་བར་བསྐལ་གཅིག་སྟེ། བཅུད་ཆགས་ལ་དེ་འདྲ་བ་བཅུ་དགུ། གཉིས་ཀ་ལ་བར་བསྐལ་ཉི་ཤུའོ། །གནས་པའི་བར་བསྐལ་ཉི་ཤུ་ནི། ཚེ་ལོ་དཔག་མེད་ནས་བརྒྱད་ཁྲིའི་བར་དུ་ལོ་ཉེས་བརྒྱ་ན་རེ་རེ་བྲིའོ། །བརྒྱད་ཁྲི་ནས་བཅུ་པའི་བར་དུ་བརྒྱ་ཚོ་རེར་ལོ་བྲིའོ། །འཕེལ་འགྲིབ་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་ནི། ཚེ་ལོ་བཅུ་པའི་འོག་ཏུ་སྲོག་གཅོད་སྤངས་པས་ཚེ་ལོ་ཉི་ཤུར་འཕེལ། མ་བྱིན་བླངས་སྤངས་པས་བཞི་བཅུ། ལོག་གཡེམ་སྤངས་པས་བརྒྱ། ཕྲ་མ་སྤངས་པས་ཉིས་བརྒྱ། ངག་འཁྱལ་སྤངས་པས་ལྔ་བརྒྱ། ཚིག་རྩུབ་སྤངས་པས་སྟོང་། བརྣབ་སེམས་སྤངས་པས་ཉིས་སྟོང་། གནོད་སེམས་སྤངས་པས་ཁྲི། ལོག་པར་ལྟ་བ་སྤངས་པས་ཉི་ཁྲི། མ་རིག་པའི་འདོད་ཆགས་སྤངས་པས་བཞི་ཁྲི། ལོག་པའི་ཆོས་སྤྱོད་པ་སྤངས་པས་བརྒྱད་ཁྲི་བར་འཕེལ་ལོ། །དེ་ལྟར་ཡར་འཕེལ་གྱི་གནས་སྐབས་སུ་ཚེ་དང་གཟུགས་དང་ལོངས་སྤྱོད་སོགས་ཀྱང་འཕེལ་ཞིང་རྒྱས་པའོ། །དེ་ནས་ཡང་མི་དགེའི་སྡེ་ཚན་རེར་འགྲིབས་ཤིང་ཚེ་ལོ་བཅུ་པ་ལ་གཏུགས་ནས་ཡང་ཡར་འཕེལ་ཚེ་སྔ་མ་བཞིན་ནོ། །དེ་དག་ལ་བར་ཁུག་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་ཅེས་སོ། །ཡང་ཕྱིས་འཕེལ་བ་གཅིག་ནི། བར་ཁུག་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་རྫོགས་པའི་རྗེས་སུ་ཡར་འཕེལ་དུ་སོང་ནས་ཚེ་ལོ་དཔག་མེད་ཐུབ་པ་མར་འགྲིབ་ལ་ཕྱོགས་ཚེ་སངས་རྒྱས་མོས་པ་བྱོན་པ་ཡན་དུ་བསྐལ་བཟང་སངས་རྒྱ་དགུ་བརྒྱ་དང་དགུ་བཅུ་གོ་དགུའི་བསྟན་པ་རྫོགས་པ་ཡིན་ཞིང་མོས་པའི་བསྟན་པ་དེའི་ཡུན་དང་མཉམ་པར་བཤད་པ་ཡང་ཐོས་སོ། །དང་པོ་ཡ་ཐོག་འགྲིབ་ཚེ་འཁོར་བ་འཇིག་བརྒྱད་ཁྲི་དང་། གསེར་ཐུབ་བཞི་ཁྲི། འོད་སྲུང་ཉི་ཁྲི། ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ་བརྒྱ་པའི་དུས་སུ་བྱོན་ཞིང་། ཚེ་ལོ་བཅུ་པ་ནས་ཡར་འཕེལ་ཏེ་བརྒྱད་ཁྲིའི་དུས་བྱམས་པ་བྱོན་བཞིན་སངས་རྒྱས་རྣམས་ཕལ་ཆེར་ཚེ་ལོ་བརྒྱད་ཁྲི་པ་མན་ཆད་ལ་འབྱུང་ཞིང་། ཡང་རྣམ་གཟིགས་དང་། མར་མེམཛད། གཙུག་ཏོར་ཅན་གསུམ་ནི་གོང་དུ་བྱོན་ཞིང་ཕྱིས་ཀྱང་འབྱོན་པས་མ་ངེས་པར་གསུངས་སོ། །དེའི་ཕྱིར་ན་བརྒྱད་ཁྲི་ནས་བརྒྱ་པའི་བར་ཁོ་ན་ལས་མི་འབྱུང་བར་མི་བལྟ་སྟེ། མགོན་པོ་ཚེ་མཐའ་ཡས་དང་། རྣམ་གཟིགས་ནི་ཚེ་ལོ་དཔག་མེད་ཀྱི་དུས་ན་བྱོན་པའོ། །རང་རྒྱལ་རྣམས་ནི་སངས་རྒྱས་མ་བྱོན་པའི་སྐབས་དང་ཉན་ཐོས་ཟད་ནས་རྒྱལ་བསྟན་ནུབ་པའི་དུས་སུ་འབྱུང་བ་ཡིན་ནོ། །མི་རྣམས་ཚེ་ལོ་དཔག་མེད་ཐུབ་པ་ནས་བརྒྱད་ཁྲིའི་བར་དུ་སྔོན་གྱི་འཁོར་ལོས་བསྒྱུར་བ་སྤྱི་བ་སྐྱེས་སོགས་རབ་བདུན་དང་། གཞན་
Chinese
受苦难的众生未解脱的期间,器世界形成的中间劫为一个。有情众生形成的中间劫有十九个。二者共有二十个中间劫。安住的二十个中间劫是:从寿命无数岁到八万岁之间,每过一百年寿命减少一岁。从八万岁到十岁之间,每过一百年寿命减少一岁。十八增减是:寿命十岁以下,断除杀生,寿命增至二十岁。断除不予取,增至四十岁。断除邪淫,增至一百岁。断除离间语,增至二百岁。断除绮语,增至五百岁。断除恶语,增至一千岁。断除贪心,增至二千岁。断除害心,增至一万岁。断除邪见,增至二万岁。断除无明之贪欲,增至四万岁。断除邪法之行,增至八万岁。如是向上增长的阶段,寿命、容貌、受用等也增长广大。之后又因每一不善之行而减少,直至寿命十岁,又如前向上增长。这些称为十八中间劫。又后来一次增长是:十八中间劫圆满之后,向上增长至寿命无数岁,向下减少时,直至弥勒佛出世之前,贤劫千佛中九百九十九佛的教法圆满,据说与弥勒佛的教法时期相同。最初,当寿命减少至八万岁时,拘留孙佛出世;寿命四万岁时,金寂佛出世;寿命二万岁时,迦叶佛出世;释迦牟尼佛出世时,寿命为一百岁。从寿命十岁向上增长至八万岁时,弥勒佛出世,诸佛大多在寿命八万岁以下出现。还有,毗婆尸佛、尸弃佛、毗舍浮佛三位,之前也出世,之后也会出世,所以是不确定的。因此,不要认为只会在八万岁到一百岁之间出现。怙主无量寿佛和毗婆尸佛是在寿命无数岁时出世的。独觉佛出现在没有佛出世的时候,以及声闻弟子灭尽、佛法衰败的时候。人们寿命从无数岁到八万岁之间,以前的转轮王,如生有肉髻等七宝,以及其他
English
The intermediate kalpa of the formation of the vessel world is one kalpa for the duration of suffering beings not being liberated. The intermediate kalpa of the formation of sentient beings is nineteen such kalpas. Both together are twenty intermediate kalpas. The twenty intermediate kalpas of abiding are: from the lifespan of immeasurable years to eighty thousand years, the lifespan decreases by one year every hundred years. From eighty thousand to ten years, the lifespan decreases by one year every hundred years. The eighteen increases and decreases are: below the lifespan of ten years, by abandoning killing, the lifespan increases to twenty years. By abandoning not giving, it increases to forty years. By abandoning sexual misconduct, it increases to one hundred years. By abandoning divisive speech, it increases to two hundred years. By abandoning idle talk, it increases to five hundred years. By abandoning harsh speech, it increases to one thousand years. By abandoning covetousness, it increases to two thousand years. By abandoning harmful intent, it increases to ten thousand years. By abandoning wrong views, it increases to twenty thousand years. By abandoning the desire of ignorance, it increases to forty thousand years. By abandoning the practice of wrong Dharma, it increases to eighty thousand years. Thus, in the stage of increasing upwards, lifespan, appearance, enjoyment, etc., also increase and expand. Then, again, it decreases with each category of non-virtue, and when the lifespan reaches ten years, it increases upwards as before. These are called the eighteen intermediate kalpas. Also, one later increase is: after the eighteen intermediate kalpas are completed, it increases upwards to a lifespan of immeasurable years, and when it decreases downwards, until the appearance of Buddha Maitreya, the teachings of nine hundred and ninety-nine Buddhas in the Bhadrakalpa are completed, and it is said to be equal to the duration of the teachings of Buddha Maitreya. Initially, when the lifespan decreases to eighty thousand years, Buddha Krakucchanda appeared; when the lifespan was forty thousand years, Buddha Kanakamuni appeared; when the lifespan was twenty thousand years, Buddha Kashyapa appeared; when Shakyamuni Buddha appeared, the lifespan was one hundred years. From the lifespan of ten years increasing upwards to eighty thousand years, Buddha Maitreya will appear, and most Buddhas appear below the lifespan of eighty thousand years. Also, Buddhas Vipashyin, Sikhin, and Vishvabhu, appeared before and will appear later, so it is said to be uncertain. Therefore, do not think that they will only appear between eighty thousand and one hundred years. Lord Amitayus and Buddha Vipashyin appeared when the lifespan was immeasurable years. Pratyekabuddhas appear when no Buddha has appeared, and when the Shravakas have been exhausted and the Buddha's teachings have declined. From the lifespan of immeasurable years to eighty thousand years, the previous Chakravartin kings, such as those born with a cranial protuberance and other seven treasures, and others.