摸骨專家婆耆舍 Vangisatthera Vatthu

 Vangisatthera Vatthu 

Dhammapada Verses 419 and 420 

Cutim yo vedi sattanam
upapattinca sabbaso
asattam sugatam buddham
tamaham brumi brahmanam.

Yassa gatim na jananti
deva gandhabbamanusa
khinasavam arahantam
tamaham brumi brahmanam.

Verse 419: Him I call a brahmana, who knows the death and rebirth of beings in every detail, who is detached, who follows the good practice and knows the Four Noble Truths.

Verse 420: Him I call a brahmana, whose destination the devas or gandhabbas or men do not know who has eradicated moral intoxicants and is an arahat.

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The Story of Thera Vangisa

While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the Buddha uttered Verses (419) and (420) of this book, with reference to Thera Vangisa.

Once, in Rajagaha, there was a brahmin by the name of Vangisa who by simply tapping on the skull of a dead person could tell whether that person was reborn in the world of the devas, or of the human beings, or in one of the four lower worlds (apayas). The brahmins took Vangisa to many villages and people flocked to him and paid him ten, twenty or a hundred to find out from him where their various dead relatives were reborn.

On one occasion, Vangisa and his party came to a place not far from the Jetavana monastery. Seeing those people who were going to the Buddha, the brahmins invited them to come to Vangisa who could tell where their relatives had been reborn. But the Buddha's disciples said to them, "Our teacher is one without a rival, he only is the Enlightened One." The brahmins took that statement as a challenge and took Vangisa along with them to the Jetavana monastery to compete with the Buddha. The Buddha, knowing their intention, instructed the bhikkhus to bring the skulls of a person reborn in niraya, of a person reborn in the animal world, of a person reborn in the human world, of a person reborn in the deva world and also of an arahat. The five were then placed in a row. When Vangisa was shown those skulls he could tell where the owners of the first four skulls were reborn but when he came to the skull of the arahat he was at a loss. Then the Buddha said, "Vangisa, don't you know? I do know where the owner of that skull is." Vangisa then asked the Buddha to let him have the magical incantation (mantra) by which he could thus know; but the Buddha told him that the mantra could be given only to a bhikkhu. Vangisa then told the brahmins to wait outside the monastery while he was being taught the mantra. Thus, Vangisa became a bhikkhu and as a bhikkhu, he was instructed by the Buddha to contemplate the thirty-two constituents of the body. Vangisa diligently practised meditation as instructed by the Buddha and attained arahatship within a short time.

When the brahmins who were waiting outside the monastery came to ask Vangisa whether he had acquired the mantra, Vangisa said, "You all had better go now; as for me, I should no longer go along with you." Other bhikkhus hearing him thought he was telling lies, so they went to the Buddha and said, "Venerable Sir! Vangisa is falsely claiming to have attained arahatship." To them the Buddha said, "Bhikkhus! Vangisa really knows the death and rebirth of beings."

Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:

Verse 419: Him I call a brahmana, who knows the death and rebirth of beings in every detail, who is detached, who follows the good practice and knows the Four Noble Truths.

Verse 420: Him I call a brahmana, whose destination the devas or gandhabbas or men do not know who has eradicated moral intoxicants and is an arahat. 摸骨專家婆耆舍 遍知有情眾生的生死，不執著，善逝(趣向涅槃)，明白四聖締的人，我稱之為婆羅門。 (偈419) 煩惱漏盡的阿羅漢，諸天、乾闥婆(註)及人都不知道他(她)的往生處，我稱之為婆羅門。 (偈420) 　　王舍城中有位名字叫做婆耆舍的婆羅門，他只要觸摸死人的骨骸，就能判斷該人究竟往生天界、人間或地獄。有些婆羅門就帶他到各個村 落去，村子的人都圍在他身邊，大方付錢，請教他們已故親人的往生處。 　　有一次，他們來到祇樹給孤獨園附近。他們看見很多人要前去聽佛陀說法，就要那些人過來請教婆耆舍。但那些要去聞法的人卻說：「婆 耆舍知道個什麼啊！我們的老師無與倫比，只有他才是究竟證悟的人。」並與他們展開一場激烈的爭論。最後有一個人說：「好吧！讓我們去 應證一下，究竟婆耆舍或佛陀懂得多？」大夥兒就到精舍去。 　　佛陀知道他們的來意後，就吩咐一位比丘分別準備往生地獄、畜生、人間、天界的四付骨骸，同時也準備了一位阿羅漢的骨頭，然後把這 五付骨頭排成一列。婆耆舍正確判斷前四付骨頭的主人往生何處，但最後一付骨頭卻難倒他。佛陀便開口道：「婆耆舍，不知道了吧！我知道 第五付骨頭的主人往生何處。」婆耆舍請求佛陀教導他知道第五付骨頭主人往生何方的技巧。佛陀建議他先出家，加入僧伽，佛陀才可能教導 他。 　　婆耆舍就要他的婆羅門朋友等候他學會這種技巧。成為比丘後，佛陀教導他觀想人身三十二個部位。他遵照佛陀的指示，努力禪修，不久 之後，就證得阿羅漢果。 　　當他的婆羅門朋友前來問他是不是學成功時，他告訴他們：「你們最好離開這裡，我不再需要了解這種技巧了，我也不會和你們走了。」 其他比丘聽他這麼說，就去請教佛陀：「世尊！婆耆舍宣稱已經證得阿羅漢果。真的嗎？」佛陀說：「比丘們！他當真明白世事萬物的生滅， 他已經是阿羅漢了。」 註：「乾闥婆」：天的一種。 Daily Reading of Buddhist Scriptures 每日讀佛經 ཉིན་རེར་དམ་ཆོས་ཀློག་པ། 26 February 2021 https://youtu.be/K0qreHvPWLg 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། 419. Cutiṃ yo vedi sattānaṃ,  upapattiñca sabbaso; Asattaṃ sugataṃ buddhaṃ,  tamahaṃ brūmi brāhmaṇaṃ. 420. Yassa gatiṃ na jānanti,  devā gandhabbamānusā; Khīṇāsavaṃ arahantaṃ,  tamahaṃ brūmi brāhmaṇaṃ. 419. He who in every way knows the death and rebirth of all beings, and is totally detached, blessed and enlightened — him do I call a holy man. 420. He whose track no gods, no angels, no humans trace, the arahant who has destroyed all cankers — him do I call a holy man. 419.我所稱的婆羅門，是那些洞悉眾生生死因緣、沒有執著、依正法往彼岸、及洞悉四聖諦的人。 420.我所稱的婆羅門，是那些已滅除煩惱、證得阿羅漢果，甚至諸天、乾闥婆、或人也不知他們死後去向的人。 419.我所称的婆罗门，是那些洞悉众生生死因缘、没有执着、依正法往彼岸、及洞悉四圣谛的人。 420.我所称的婆罗门，是那些已灭除烦恼、证得阿罗汉果，甚至诸天、干闼婆、或人也不知他们死后去向的人。 ༤༡༩༽ ཐམས་ཅད་ཀུན་ཏུ་སེམས་ཅན་གྱི། །འཆི་འཕོ་བ་དང་སྐྱེ་བ་རིག །ཆགས་མེད་བདེར་གཤེགས་སངས་རྒྱས་པ། །དེ་ལ་བདག་ནི་བྲམ་ཟེར་བརྗོད། ། ༤༢༠༽ གང་གི་འགྲོ་བ་ལྷ་རྣམས་དང་། །དྲི་ཟ་མི་ཡིས་མི་ཤེས་པར། །ཟག་པ་ཟད་ཅིང་དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ། །དེ་ལ་བདག་ནི་བྲམ་ཟེར་བརྗོད། ། You may choose your language. The five options are: Pali, English, Cantonese and Putonghua, Tibetan. 您可以選擇您的語言：巴利語、英語、廣東話、普通話、藏語 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 It is a free gift. 此是免費贈送的法寶。 འབུལ་བ་འདི་རིན་མེད་ཡིན།  #Dhammapada #法句經 #ཆོསཀྱིཚིགསསུབཅསཔ། #DharmaisNOTforSALE #佛法是非賣品 #དམཆོསརིནམེད