瞿曇彌大愛道請求剃度出家 Mahapajapatigotami Vatthu

Mahapajapatigotami Vatthu




Dhammapada Verse 391

Yassa kayena vacaya
manasa natthi dukkatam
samvutam tihi thanehi
tamaham brumi brahmanam.

Verse 391: Him I call a brahmana who does no evil in deed or word or thought, who is restrained in these three respects.

The Story of Theri Mahapajapati Gotami

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verse (391) of this book, with reference to Theri Mahapajapati Gotami.

Mahapajapati Gotami was the stepmother of Gotama Buddha. On the death of Queen, seven days after the birth of Prince Siddhattha, Mahapajapati Gotami became the chief queen of King Suddhodana. At that time, her own son Nanda was only five days old. She let her own son be fed by a wet-nurse, and herself fed Prince Siddhattha, the future Buddha. Thus, Mahapajapati Gotami was a great benefactor to Prince Siddhattha.

When Prince Siddhattha returned to Kapilavatthu after the attainment of Buddhahood, Mahapajapati Gotami went to see the Buddha and requested that women should also be allowed to enter the Buddhist Order as bhikkhunis; but the Buddha refused permission. Later, King Suddhodana died after attaining arahatship. Then, while the Buddha was sojourning at the Mahavana forest near Vesali, Mahapajapati, accompanied by five hundred ladies, came on foot from Kapilavatthu to Vasali. They had already shaven their heads and had put on the dyed robes. There, for a second time, Mahapajapati requested the Buddha to accept women in the Buddhist Order. The Venerable Ananda also interceded on her behalf. So, the Buddha complied, with the proviso that Mahapajapati abides by eight special conditions (garudhammas). Mahapajapati undertook to observe the garudhammas as required, and the Buddha admitted her into the Order. Thus, Mahapajapati was the first to be admitted to the Order of the Bhikkhunis. The other women were admitted to the Order after her by the bhikkhus as instructed by the Buddha.

In course of time, it came to the minds of some bhikkhunis that Mahapajapati Gotami had not been properly admitted as a bhikkhuni because she did not have a preceptor; therefore, Mahapajapati Gotami was not a true bhikkhuni. With this thought in their mind, they stopped doing sabbath (uposatha) ceremonies and vassa (pavarana) ceremonies with her. They went to the Buddha and posed the problem of Mahapajapati Gotami not having been properly admitted to the Order of bhikkhunis as she had no preceptor. To them the Buddha replied, "Why do you say so? I myself gave the eight garudhammas to Mahapajapati and she had learnt and practised the garudhammas as required by me. I myself am her preceptor and it is quite wrong for you to say that she has no preceptor. You should harbour no doubt whatsoever about an arahat."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 391: Him I call a brahmana who does no evil in deed or word or thought, who is restrained in these three respects.

瞿曇彌大愛道請求剃度出家

不作身口意惡業，調伏身口意的人是婆羅門。(偈391)


　　 瞿曇彌大愛道是悉達多太子的姨母。悉達多太子的母親在產後第七天去世時，她成為淨飯王的皇后，她把自己剛出生五天的兒子難陀交給侍女照顧，自己則親身養育悉達多太子(後來的佛陀)，因此，她是佛陀的大恩人。

　　 當悉達多太子成為佛陀後，返回家鄉迦毘羅衛城時，她請求佛陀讓她出家為比丘尼，但被佛陀拒絕。後來，證得阿羅漢果的淨飯王去世後，佛陀停留在毗舍離附近的摩訶華那森林 (意思是大的森林) 裡，不料她和五百名女子事先自行剃除三千青絲，身上穿著染過色的衣服，然後自迦毘羅衛城步行前來，再次向佛陀請求出家為比丘尼。阿難尊者也代為說項，佛陀要求她們必須遵守八條特別的戒律，她敬謹地接受這些條件，佛陀就同意她加入尼眾僧團，瞿曇彌大愛道於是成為第一位比丘尼，和她一齊前來的其他女子也都加入尼眾僧團。

　　 後來，有些比丘認為瞿曇彌大愛道比丘尼的出家程序不對，因為她沒有戒師，所以不是一位真正的比丘尼。她們便不再與她共同舉行宗教儀式。佛陀知道這件事後，告誡她們：「妳們為什麼會這麼想呢？我親自要瞿曇彌大愛道比丘尼遵守八條特別的戒律，她也遵照我的指示修習這八條戒律，我就是她的戒師，妳們不應該對阿羅漢有絲毫的懷疑。」


‧摘錄自‧《法句經‧故事集》達摩難陀法師著




Daily Reading of Buddhist Scriptures 每日讀佛經 ཉིན་རེར་དམ་ཆོས་ཀློག་པ། 29 January 2021




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Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammāsambuddhasa（x3)


Dhammapada

《法句經》

ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་མདོ་བཞུགས་སོ། །


26. Brāhmaṇavaggo

Chapter Twenty Six   The Holy Man

第二十六章 婆羅門

ཉེར་དྲུག་པ་བྲམ་ཟེའི་ལེའུ།


391. Yassa kāyena vācāya, 

manasā natthi dukkaṭaṃ;

Saṃvutaṃ tīhi ṭhānehi, 

tamahaṃ brūmi brāhmaṇaṃ.


391. He who does no evil in deed, word and thought, who is restrained in these three ways — him do I call a holy man.


391.我所稱的婆羅門，是不作身口意惡業，並能制止這三惡業的人。


391.我所称的婆罗门，是不作身口意恶业，并能制止这三恶业的人。


༣༩༡༽ གང་ཞིག་ལུས་དང་ངག་དང་ནི། །ཡིད་ཀྱིས་སྡིག་པ་མི་བྱེད་པར། །ལམ་འདི་གསུམ་གྱིས་སྡོམ་བྱེད་པ། །དེ་ལ་བདག་ནི་བྲམ་ཟེར་བརྗོད། །


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ཁྱེད་ཀྱིས་པཱ་ལཱའི་སྐད་དམ་དབྱིན་སྐད་དམ་ཧོང་ཀོང་གི་སྐད་དང་རྒྱ་ནག་གི་སྐད་དང་བོད་སྐད་ལྔ་པོ་དེ་ལ་གང་རུང་འདམ་ཆོག


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