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English version: Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi (Supreme Perfect Enlightenment). 'Poor field' refers to: all people living in poverty and suffering. The Thus Come One (Tathagata) World Honored One is two kinds of fields of merit: the first is the field of repaying kindness, and the second is the field of merit. The Dharma is also like this, it is two kinds of fields. The Sangha (community of monks) is of three kinds: the first is the field of repaying kindness, the second is the field of merit, and the third is the field of poverty. Because of this reason, a Bodhisattva, having received the Upasaka (layman's) precepts, should diligently make offerings to the Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma, Sangha) with utmost sincerity. 'Good man! The Thus Come One (Tathagata) is the treasury of all Dharmas, therefore, the wise should diligently and sincerely make offerings to the Thus Come One's living body (while alive), extinguished body (relics after Nirvana), images (Buddha statues), stupas (pagodas) and temples! If in an empty wilderness there is no stupa or image, one should constantly keep in mind respect and praise. If one has the ability, one should build it oneself, or persuade others to build it; when seeing others building it, one should feel joy in one's heart; if one has merit and ability, one must widely teach many people to build it together. After making offerings, do not belittle oneself, and one should be the same towards the Three Jewels. All offerings made should not be forced upon others, not for the sake of surpassing others, not regretting when doing it, not being worried or distressed in one's heart, but joining palms in praise, with reverence and respect. Whether it is with one coin to immeasurable treasures, whether it is with one thread to immeasurable threads, whether it is with one flower to immeasurable flowers, whether it is with one incense stick to immeasurable incense sticks, whether it is with one verse of praise to immeasurable verses of praise, whether it is with one bow to immeasurable bows, whether it is with one circumambulation to immeasurable circumambulations, whether it is in one moment to immeasurable moments, whether it is done alone or with others, good man! If one can thus sincerely make offerings to the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha, whether I am now in the world or after Nirvana, there is no difference. When seeing a stupa or temple, one should offer it with gold, silver, copper, iron, ropes, banners, canopies, music, fragrant oil, and lamps. If one sees birds and beasts trampling and destroying it, one must repair and clean it; places damaged by storms, water, and fire should also be repaired by oneself. If one does not have the ability, one should persuade others to repair it. Or use materials such as gold, silver, copper, iron, earth, and wood. If there is dust, sweep and wipe it away; if there is dirt, wash it with fragrant water. If building a precious stupa or making a precious image, after finishing it' --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chinese
以种种幡、盖、香、花奉上。若无真宝，力不能办，次以土木而造成之，成讫亦当幡、盖、香、花、种种伎乐而供养之。若是塔中草木不净，鸟兽死尸及其粪秽、萎花臭烂、悉当除去，蛇、鼠孔穴，当塞治之。铜像、木像、石像、泥像、金、银、琉璃、颇梨等像，常当洗治，任力香涂。随力造作种种璎珞，乃至犹如转轮圣王塔。精舍内当以香涂。若白土泥作塔像已，当以琉璃、颇梨、真珠、绫绢、彩绵、铃磬、绳锁而供养之。画佛像时，彩中不杂胶乳鸡子，应以种种花贯、散花、妙绋、明镜、末香、涂香、散香、烧香、种种伎乐，歌舞供养。如昼，夜亦如是；如夜，昼亦如是。不如外道烧酥、大麦而供养之。终不以酥涂塔像身，亦不乳洗。不应造作半身佛像；若有形像身不具足，当密覆藏，劝人令治，治已具足，然后显示。见像毁坏，应当至心供养恭敬，如完无别。如是供养要身自作，若自无力，当为他使，亦劝他人令佐助之。 “若人能以四天下宝供养如来，有人直以种种功德尊重赞叹，至心恭敬，是二福德等无差别。所谓如来身心具足，身有微妙三十二相、八十种好、具足大力，心有十力、四无所畏、大悲、三念、五智三昧、三种法门、十一种空、观十二缘智、无量禅定、具足七智、已能度到六波罗蜜岸。 现代汉语译本 用各种各样的幡（一种旗帜）、伞盖、香、花来供奉佛塔。如果没有真正的珍宝，力量不足以做到，就用泥土或木头来建造佛塔。建成后，也应当用幡、伞盖、香、花和各种各样的音乐来供养它。如果塔中的草木不干净，有鸟兽的尸体以及粪便污秽，或者有枯萎腐烂的花朵，都应当清除掉。蛇和老鼠的洞穴，应当堵塞修补好。铜像、木像、石像、泥像，以及用金、银、琉璃、颇梨（一种透明的宝石）等制成的佛像，应当经常清洗修缮，尽力涂上香。根据自己的能力制作各种各样的璎珞（一种装饰品），乃至像转轮圣王（统治世界的理想君王）的佛塔一样庄严。精舍（僧侣居住的场所）内部应当用香涂抹。如果用白土泥制作佛塔和佛像，应当用琉璃、颇梨、珍珠、绫绢、彩绵、铃磬、绳索来供养它。绘制佛像时，颜料中不要掺杂胶、乳、鸡蛋，应当用各种各样的花串、散花、精美的丝带、明镜、末香（香粉）、涂香（涂抹身体的香）、散香（焚烧的香）、各种各样的音乐、歌舞来供养。白天如此，夜晚也如此；夜晚如此，白天也如此。不要像外道那样烧酥油、大麦来供养。始终不要用酥油涂抹佛塔和佛像的身体，也不要用乳汁清洗。不应该制作半身佛像；如果有的佛像身体不完整，应当秘密地遮盖起来，劝人修缮，修缮完整后，然后再展示出来。见到佛像毁坏，应当以至诚之心供养恭敬，如同完好无损一样。像这样供养佛塔佛像，一定要亲自去做，如果自己没有能力，应当请人帮忙，也劝他人帮助自己。 ‘如果有人能用四大部洲的珍宝来供养如来（佛陀），有人仅仅用各种各样的功德来尊重赞叹如来，以至诚之心恭敬如来，这两种福德是相等没有差别的。因为如来身心都具足功德，身体有微妙的三十二相（佛陀的32种特殊体貌特征）、八十种好（佛陀的80种较小的美好特征），具足强大的力量，心有十力（佛陀的十种力量）、四无所畏（佛陀的四种无所畏惧的品质）、大悲（伟大的慈悲心）、三念（佛陀的三种正念）、五智三昧（五种智慧的禅定状态）、三种法门（三种修行方法）、十一种空（十一种空的智慧）、观十二缘智（观察十二因缘的智慧）、无量禅定（无量的禅定境界）、具足七智（具足七种智慧）、已经能够度到六波罗蜜（六种到达彼岸的方法）的彼岸。’
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English version Offer various banners (a type of flag), canopies, incense, and flowers to the stupa. If you do not have real treasures and lack the ability, then build it with earth or wood. After it is completed, you should also offer banners, canopies, incense, flowers, and various kinds of music. If the grass and trees in the stupa are unclean, or there are corpses of birds and animals, as well as excrement and filth, or withered and rotten flowers, all should be removed. The holes of snakes and rats should be blocked and repaired. Copper statues, wooden statues, stone statues, clay statues, and statues made of gold, silver, lapis lazuli, crystal (a transparent gemstone), etc., should be regularly cleaned and repaired, and incense should be applied as much as possible. Make various kinds of necklaces (a type of ornament) according to your ability, even as magnificent as the stupa of a Chakravartin (an ideal universal ruler). The interior of the monastery (a place where monks live) should be smeared with incense. If stupas and statues are made of white clay, they should be offered with lapis lazuli, crystal, pearls, silk fabrics, colored cotton, bells, ropes, and locks. When painting Buddha images, do not mix glue, milk, or eggs in the paints. You should offer various flower garlands, scattered flowers, exquisite streamers, bright mirrors, powdered incense, scented ointment, scattered incense (incense for burning), various kinds of music, singing, and dancing. As it is during the day, so it is at night; as it is at night, so it is during the day. Do not offer like the heretics by burning ghee and barley. Never smear the body of the stupa and Buddha images with ghee, nor wash them with milk. One should not create half-body Buddha images; if there are Buddha images with incomplete bodies, they should be secretly covered up, and people should be encouraged to repair them. After they are completely repaired, then they should be displayed. When you see a damaged image, you should offer it with utmost sincerity and respect, as if it were undamaged. To make such offerings, you must do it yourself. If you do not have the ability, you should ask others for help, and also encourage others to assist you. 'If someone can use the treasures of the four continents to offer to the Tathagata (Buddha), and someone simply uses various merits to respect and praise the Tathagata, and reveres the Tathagata with utmost sincerity, these two kinds of merit are equal and without difference. Because the Tathagata's body and mind are complete with merits, the body has the subtle thirty-two marks (the 32 special physical characteristics of the Buddha), the eighty minor marks (the 80 minor beautiful characteristics of the Buddha), and possesses great strength. The mind has the ten powers (the ten powers of the Buddha), the four fearlessnesses (the four qualities of fearlessness of the Buddha), great compassion, the three mindfulnesses (the three right mindfulnesses of the Buddha), the five wisdom samadhis (the meditative states of the five wisdoms), the three Dharma doors (the three methods of practice), the eleven kinds of emptiness (the wisdom of the eleven kinds of emptiness), the wisdom of observing the twelve links of dependent origination, immeasurable samadhis (immeasurable states of samadhi), complete with the seven wisdoms (complete with the seven types of wisdom), and is already able to cross to the other shore of the six paramitas (the six methods of reaching the other shore).' --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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若人能以如是等法赞叹佛者，是人则名真供养佛。 “云何名为供养于法？善男子！若能供养十二部经，名供养法。云何供养十二部经？若能至心信乐受持、读诵、解说、如说而行，既自为己，复劝人行，是名供养十二部经。若能书写十二部经，既书写已，种种供养，如供养佛，唯除洗浴。若有供养、受持、读诵如是经者，是则名为供养法也。供养法时，如供养佛。又复有法，谓菩萨一根，辟支佛人三根、三谛，若信是者，名供养法。若有供养发菩提心受持戒者出家之人，向须陀洹至阿罗汉果，名供养僧。若有人能如是供养佛、法、僧宝，当知是人终不远离十方如来，常与诸佛行住坐卧。善男子！若有人能如说多少供养如是三福田者，当知是人于无量世多受利益。 “善男子！菩萨二种：一者、在家，二者、出家。出家菩萨供养三宝，是不为难；在家供养，是乃为难。何以故？在家之人多恶因缘所缠绕故。” 优婆塞戒经卷第三 大正藏第 24 册 No. 1488 优婆塞戒经 优婆塞戒经卷第四 北凉中印度三藏昙无谶译 六波罗蜜品第十八 善生言：“世尊！如佛先说供养六方，六方即是六波罗蜜，是人则能增长财、命，如是之人有何等相？” 佛言 现代汉语译本：如果有人能用这样的方法赞美佛，这个人就叫做真正供养佛。 ‘怎样叫做供养法呢？善男子！如果能够供养十二部经，就叫做供养法。怎样供养十二部经呢？如果能够至诚地信奉、喜好、接受、奉持、读诵、理解、解说，并且按照经中所说的去做，既为自己这样做，又劝别人这样做，这就叫做供养十二部经。如果能够书写十二部经，书写完毕后，用种种方式供养，就像供养佛一样，只是不用洗浴。如果有人供养、接受、奉持、读诵这样的经典，这就叫做供养法。供养法的时候，就像供养佛一样。还有一种供养法，就是供养菩萨的一根（指菩萨所修的一种法门），辟支佛（Pratyekabuddha）的三根（指辟支佛所修的三种法门）、三谛（指苦、集、灭三种真谛），如果有人信奉这些，就叫做供养法。如果有人供养发菩提心（Bodhi-citta）受持戒律的出家人，以及趋向须陀洹（Srotaapanna）果位直到阿罗汉（Arhat）果位的修行者，就叫做供养僧。如果有人能够这样供养佛、法、僧三宝，应当知道这个人终究不会远离十方如来，常常与诸佛一起行走、站立、坐卧。善男子！如果有人能够按照自己能力的大小供养这三种福田，应当知道这个人将在无量世中获得很多利益。’ ‘善男子！菩萨有两种：一种是在家的，一种是出家的。出家的菩萨供养三宝，这不难做到；在家的菩萨供养三宝，这才是难能可贵。为什么呢？因为在家的人常常被各种恶劣的因缘所缠绕。’ 《优婆塞戒经》卷第三 大正藏第24册 No. 1488 《优婆塞戒经》 《优婆塞戒经》卷第四 北凉中印度三藏昙无谶（Dharmaraksa）译 六波罗蜜品第十八 善生（Subhuti）问：‘世尊！如果佛先前所说的供养六方，这六方就是六波罗蜜（Six Paramitas），这样的人就能增长财富和寿命，这样的人有什么样的相貌呢？’ 佛说：