Visuddhimagga I-16

1. Sīlaniddeso

第一 说戒品

CHAPTER I DESCRIPTION OF VIRTUE

Sīlasarūpādikathā

[II. VIRTUE]

6. Evaṃ anekaguṇasaṅgāhakena sīlasamādhipaññāmukhena desitopi panesa visuddhimaggo atisaṅkhepadesitoyeva hoti. Tasmā nālaṃ sabbesaṃ upakārāyāti vitthāramassa dassetuṃ sīlaṃ tāva ārabbha idaṃ pañhākammaṃ hoti.

虽以如是包摄诸德的戒定慧三门而显示清净道,但太简略,为了饶益一切(众生)是不够的,所以再加详细叙述,这里先设些关于戒的问题:

Ñ:(I,16) However, even when this path of purification is shown in this way under the headings of virtue, concentration and understanding, each comprising various special qualities, it is still only shown extremely briefly. And so since that is insufficient to help all, there is, in order to show it in detail, the following set of questions dealing in the first place with virtue:



Kiṃ sīlaṃ, kenaṭṭhena sīlaṃ, kānassa lakkhaṇarasapaccupaṭṭhānapadaṭṭhānāni, kimānisaṃsaṃ sīlaṃ, katividhaṃ cetaṃ sīlaṃ, ko cassa saṃkileso, kiṃ vodānanti.

一、什么是戒?

二、什么是戒的语义?

三、什么是戒的相、味、现起、足处?

四、什么是戒的功德?

五、戒有几种?

六、什么是戒的杂染?

七、什么是净化?

Ñ: (i) What is virtue?

(ii) In what sense is it virtue?

(iii) What are its characteristic, function, manifestation, and proximate cause?

(iv) What are the benefits of virtue?

(v) How many kinds of virtue are there?

(vi) What is the defiling of it?

(vii) What is the cleansing of it?



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