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而且，没有盗贼和饥荒，没有石头和沙砾等，鲜花和果树繁茂，雨季降临，拥有食物、牛和水牛，一切安乐兴盛，依靠福德，总是行布施，安住于斋戒，受持戒律而住。那时，凡是阎浮提洲的人死去，无论什么死法，他们都会脱离身体而生于诸天之中，大多数都生于四大天王众天之中。福德力国王也把无数众生安置于今生和来世的利益中，死后迁移，与成千上万的眷属一起生于兜率天。如此，我们的导师在那时那刻成了名为福德力国王的人，当时的父母也就是现在的净饭王和摩耶夫人，青年具形是苏的儿子比丘喜，精进者是比丘稻穗生二十俱胝，工巧者是比丘不退，具慧者是比丘舍利子，当时的帝释天是目犍连的儿子。福德力登上王位的那个死去的国王是恶魔恶行者，以前的穷人福德力进入他家的那个人是比丘罗睺罗，无手无脚的人福德力像以前一样安置，给国王供奉医药和佛法的那个人就是憍陈如。因此，无论如何，这种福德是有益的，所以没有见到其他任何与福德相等且隐退的（事物）了，如是说。在那里，比丘们问佛陀，福德力国王做了什么业，以至于成了国王等，一切所想都得以圆满。世尊开示说：过去世，如来名号为无能胜者降临世间，行持佛陀的事业，完全涅槃后，一位国王建造了佛陀舍利的佛塔，在那佛塔的节日聚会的眷属。
English
Moreover, there were no thieves or famines, no stones or gravel, and the trees of flowers and fruits flourished, raining in the rainy season, possessing food, cattle, and buffaloes. All were prosperous in happiness, relying on merit, always giving alms, abiding in fasting, and dwelling by taking vows. At that time, whoever died as a human in Jambudvipa, no matter what kind of death it was, they would depart from their bodies and be born among the gods, and most of them were born among the gods of the Four Great Kings. King Sonam Tob also placed countless sentient beings in the benefit of this life and the next, and after death, he was reborn in the Tushita Heaven together with tens of thousands of retinues. Thus, our teacher at that time and at that moment became the one called King Sonam Tob, and the parents of that time were also the present-day Śuddhodana and Mahamaya, the youth with form was the son of Su, the monk Gawa, the diligent one was the monk Drowa Shin Kye twenty kotis, the skillful one was the monk Magakpa, the wise one was the monk Sharibu, and the Indra of the gods at that time was the son of Mougal. The king who died and upon whose throne Sonam Tob ascended was the demon Sinister, the former poor man who entered the house of Sonam Tob was the monk Rāhula, the man without hands and feet whom Sonam Tob placed as before, the man who offered medicine and Dharma to the king was this Kaundinya. Therefore, in every way, this merit is beneficial, so no other equal and secluded (thing) to merit has been seen, so it was said. There, the monks asked the Buddha, what deeds did King Sonam Tob do that he became a king, etc., and all his wishes were fulfilled. The Blessed One said: In the past, a Tathagata named Invincible appeared in the world, performed the deeds of the Buddha, and after completely passing into Nirvana, a king built a stupa of the Buddha's relics, and the retinue gathered at the festival of that stupa.
Chinese
在聚集了无数人的集会中，一位比丘在下午时分说法。当时，在国王的宫殿附近，有一个名叫“赌博失败者”的人，他非常沉迷于赌博，他有一个名叫“胜利女神”的妻子和一个名叫“胜利者”的儿子。然后，那个赌徒穿着一件粗布衣服，带着一把伞、一双鞋子和五个铜币，除了这些之外，他在家里和外面的一切都输在了赌博中，因为非常贫穷而遭受着难以忍受的痛苦，他叹息道：“唉，没有积累福德，贫穷真是太可怕了！”他叹了口气，穿上鞋子，拿着五个铜币和伞，从赌博的地方走开，最终高兴地来到了听法的地方，心想：“听听他讲些什么。”于是，他放下伞和鞋子，恭敬地听法。过了一会儿，说法者说了这首偈颂：积累福德会带来快乐，因此人们应该行善，应该反复行善，应该渴望行善。听到这首偈颂后，他想：“积累福德会带来快乐，确实如此。我之所以如此贫困，也是因为没有行善。我应该稍微行善。”他想了想自己有什么，除了粗布衣服、伞、鞋子和剩下的五个铜币之外，他看到一切都输在了赌博中。他想：“如果我把五个铜币和衣服布施出去，我就会饿死。如果不布施，我就会没有福德地去往来世，在那里也会遭受贫穷的痛苦。有什么方法既不会饿死，也不会没有福德呢？”他又想：“即使饿死也容易，但没有福德地去往来世是不行的。”于是他想：“我一定要布施这五个铜币和衣服。”当他这样想的时候，说法者又说了这首偈颂：缓慢地行善，会变得非常喜欢罪恶。因此，应该迅速地行善，也要使心远离罪恶。他说了这些。听到这些话，他想：“既然说要迅速地行善，那就立刻布施吧！”狮子
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In the midst of a gathering of countless people, a monk was teaching the Dharma in the afternoon. At that time, near the king's palace, there was a man named "Gambling Loser" who was very addicted to gambling. He had a wife named "Victorious Goddess" and a son named "Victor." Then, that gambler wore a single coarse cloth, carried an umbrella, a pair of shoes, and five copper coins. Except for these, everything he owned inside and outside the house had been lost in gambling. He was suffering from unbearable pain due to extreme poverty, and he sighed, "Alas, not accumulating merit, poverty is utterly unbearable!" He sighed deeply, put on his shoes, and carrying the five copper coins and the umbrella, he left the gambling place and eventually happily arrived at the place for listening to the Dharma, thinking, "Let me listen to what he is teaching." So, he put down the umbrella and shoes and listened respectfully. After a while, the Dharma speaker recited this verse: Accumulating merit leads to happiness. Therefore, people should do good. Do it again and again. One should aspire to it. Having heard this verse, he thought, "Accumulating merit leads to happiness, that is indeed so. The reason I am so destitute is also because I have not done good. I should do a little good." He thought about what he possessed, and besides the coarse cloth, the umbrella, the shoes, and the remaining five copper coins, he saw that everything else had been lost in gambling. He thought, "If I give away the five copper coins and the cloth, I will starve to death. If I don't give them away, I will go to the next world without merit and suffer the pain of poverty there as well. What way is there to avoid starving to death and also not being without merit?" He thought again, "Even if it is easy to die of starvation, going to the next world without merit is not right." So he thought, "I must give away these five copper coins and the cloth." As he was thinking this, the Dharma speaker recited this verse again: Doing good slowly, one becomes very fond of evil. Therefore, one should do good quickly, and also turn the mind away from evil. He said these words. Hearing these words, he thought, "Since it is said to do good quickly, then I will give it away immediately!" Lion
Chinese
在讲经师坐在法座上时，有人为他撑伞，两只鞋子放在脚边。那五个班智达的客人用脚踢他，脱下僧衣盖在讲经师的脚上，表示虔诚和敬畏。他们跪拜在他的脚下，以强烈的信仰祈祷：愿我从今以后，不会因为布施善根和发菩提心以及为了佛法而变得贫穷。愿我在一切生世中，因福德而闻名，愿天人让我成为国王，愿一切所思所想都能如愿以偿，就像从天空中获得一样。愿我在出生时，也能感受到奇妙和非凡的事物，并拥有无尽的珍宝和各种珍贵物品。讲经师也诵经回向，所有人都离开了。那个赌徒只穿着一块布，想着布施佛法的事情，回到了自己的家。他的妻子和儿子看到后说：这个人不知道把僧衣和装饰品在哪里挥霍掉了，我们两个也要被他挥霍掉了，走吧。他感到羞愧，心想这是因为贫穷的过错才被这样责骂，于是用诗句说道：有什么痛苦比贫穷更痛苦？什么比贫穷更痛苦？贫穷的人就像死去一样，我不是死于泥潭中的贫穷。说完，他叹了口气，一言不发地坐着。之后，在那家的院子里有一口井，妻子用绳子系着水桶放下去打水，想要把水提上来，但提不上来。于是她叫丈夫说：丈夫，请过来帮我把水桶提上来。他们两个也提不上来，于是叫儿子来，三个人都用尽了力气，甚至皮开肉绽，才最终把水桶提了上来。当他们看的时候，看到水桶下面挂着五个装满金银的铜罐。赌徒看到今生布施的果报，非常高兴，用诗句说道：啊！我已舍弃一切罪过，这是功德的本性之田。现在我播下了种子，现在就结出了果实。
English
While the preacher was sitting on the Dharma seat, someone held an umbrella over him, and two shoes were placed at his feet. Those five Pandit guests kicked him with their feet, took off their monastic robes and covered the preacher's feet, expressing faith and reverence. They prostrated at his feet and prayed with strong faith: May I never become poor from now on because of giving, generating merit, generating Bodhicitta, and for the sake of the Dharma. May I be known for my merit in all lifetimes, and may gods and humans enthrone me as king, and may all my thoughts and wishes be fulfilled, just like obtaining them from the sky. May I also experience wonderful and extraordinary things at birth, and may inexhaustible treasures and various precious items also appear. The preacher also recited dedications, and everyone left. That gambler, wearing only one piece of cloth, thinking about the Dharma giving, returned to his home. His wife and son saw him and said: This person doesn't know where he squandered the monastic robes and ornaments, we two will also be squandered by him, let's go. He felt ashamed, thinking that it was because of the fault of poverty that he was scolded like this, so he said in verse: What suffering is more painful than poverty? What is more painful than poverty itself? The poor are like the dead, I am not a poverty of dying in the mud. After saying this, he sighed and sat without saying a word. After that, there was a well in the courtyard of that house, and the wife tied a bucket with a rope and lowered it to fetch water, wanting to lift the water up, but she couldn't lift it up. So she called her husband and said: Husband, please come and help me lift the bucket. The two of them couldn't lift it up either, so they called their son, and all three of them exerted great effort, even to the point of tearing their skin, and finally lifted the bucket up. When they looked, they saw five copper pots full of gold and silver hanging under the bucket. The gambler saw the result of giving in this life, was very happy, and said in verse: Alas! I have abandoned all faults, this is the field of the nature of merit. Now I have sown the seed, now the fruit
Chinese
成熟。这样说的时候，妻子问：‘您这样说，是想到了什么？’他便把这件事详细地说了。他看到今生福德的果实成熟，非常稀有，感到惊奇。这件事也从一个人传到另一个人，传遍了国王的宫殿和所有眷属。许多人都感到惊奇。之后，赌徒突然变得富有，看到财富众多的福德果实，便以极大的虔诚恭敬三宝。他每天都向如来佛塔作盛大的供养，并听闻佛法。他还每天都用美味的食物使僧团指定的僧侣们感到满足。他还用财富满足苦行者、婆罗门、穷人、病人和其他乞讨者的一切需求。他还让人建造一座充满各种用具的大寺庙，并将其献给四方僧侣的僧团，因此他的名声传遍各地。后来，国王没有儿子就去世了。大臣和村民们知道赌徒有很大的福德，便让他当了国王。从此以后，赌徒的名字消失了，他被称为国王胜者。之后，国王胜者对福德深信不疑，总是不断地布施，并依靠福德。他如法地受持戒律并安住其中。王后、大臣、城镇和村民们也都如法地安住于福德之中。后来，国王去世了，立即转生为他化自在天之王自在之子。从天空中降下天界的珍宝和衣物之雨，他化自在天的诸神都感到非常惊奇。就这样，被称为赌徒胜者的人，以其向说法者供养伞等物的福德，在当世获得了五种宝藏，也获得了王位的权力。由于那个业的成熟，他有三十六次获得了他化自在天诸神的王位权力，同样，有三十六次获得了化乐天之王位的权力。
English
matured. When he said this, his wife asked, 'What are you thinking about when you say this?' He then explained the matter in detail. He saw the wonderful ripening of the fruits of merit in this life and was amazed. The story was passed from one person to another and spread throughout the king's palace and all its retinue. Many people were amazed. Then, the gambler suddenly became wealthy, and seeing the fruits of merit with abundant wealth, he honored the Three Jewels with great devotion. Every day he made great offerings to the stupa of the Thus-Gone One and listened to the Dharma. He also satisfied the monks appointed by the Sangha with good food every day. He also satisfied the ascetics, Brahmins, the poor, the sick, and other beggars with whatever wealth they desired. He also had a large monastery built, filled with all kinds of utensils, and offered it to the Sangha of monks from the four directions, so his fame spread everywhere. Later, when the king died without a son, the ministers and villagers, knowing that the gambler had great merit, made him king. From then on, the name of the gambler disappeared, and he became known as King Victorious. After that, King Victorious, having faith in merit, always gave alms without interruption and relied on merit. He took the precepts correctly and abided by them. The queen, ministers, towns, and villagers all abided correctly in merit. Later, when the king became subject to death, he was immediately born as the son of the King of the Gods of Others' Power, the Lord of Others' Power. A rain of heavenly jewels and garments fell from the sky, and the gods of Others' Power were greatly amazed. Thus, the one called the Gambler Victorious, by the merit of offering umbrellas and other things to the Dharma speaker, obtained five treasures in that very life, and also obtained the power of kingship. Due to the ripening of that karma, he obtained the power of kingship of the gods of Others' Power thirty-six times, and similarly, thirty-six times he obtained the power of kingship of the Joyful Gods.