目次Contents
百喻經Sūtra of One Hundred ParablesSūtra of One Hundred Parables
《百喻經》九十八喻，每一喻先講一件事，再轉一句入法。事是愚人做的，眾人笑他；法是讀者做的，笑要落回自己身上。這部書把兩件事放在一起，讓人先笑再認。
讀一喻，先找後一段的第一句。那一句多半是「世人亦爾」「譬如外道」「比丘亦爾」，從那裡往回對：鹽對什麼、牛乳對什麼、三重樓對什麼。對上了，笑就落到自己身上；對不上，就只是一個故事。
卷末有一段序，五百梵志問佛，一路問到泥洹從何生。佛答泥洹不生不死，又說：人不須死也知道死苦，佛不須入泥洹也知道泥洹常樂。梵志心開，佛才說「今為汝廣說眾喻」。眾喻是為開了的心說的。
本編以大正藏為底本，四卷為四單元，九十八喻為九十八節；底本之外不採他本重排，宋元明本所移之序照大正位置譯出，異處誌於考據。一卷讀完再讀下一卷。
The Sūtra of One Hundred Parables has ninety-eight parables. Each first tells of a deed, then turns with a sentence into the Dharma. The deed is done by a fool, and the people laugh at him; the Dharma is done by the reader, and the laughter has to fall back on oneself. This book sets the two side by side, so that one laughs first and recognizes afterward.
To read a parable, first find the opening sentence of its second part. That sentence is usually “so too are worldly people,” “like the followers of other paths,” or “so too the bhikṣu”; from there, match backward: what the salt stands for, what the milk stands for, what the three-storied tower stands for. Once matched, the laughter falls on oneself; unmatched, it is only a story.
At the end of the first fascicle there is a preface in which five hundred brāhmaṇa students question the Buddha, all the way to the question of what nirvāṇa is born from. The Buddha answers that nirvāṇa is neither born nor dies, and adds: one need not die to know that death is suffering, and the Buddha need not enter nirvāṇa to know that nirvāṇa is everlasting bliss. Their minds opened, and only then did the Buddha say, “I shall now set out the many parables for you at length.” The parables are told for a mind that has opened.
This edition takes the Taishō canon as its base text; its four fascicles are four units and its ninety-eight parables ninety-eight sections. No other recension is followed for rearrangement; the preface that the Song, Yuan, and Ming editions move to the head of the fascicle is translated where the Taishō places it, and the difference is recorded in the Apparatus. Finish one fascicle before beginning the next.
一、本經與底本
《百喻經》，大正藏第四冊第二〇九號，四卷，題「尊者僧伽斯那撰」〔T04 0543a06〕、「蕭齊天竺三藏求那毘地譯」〔T04 0543a07〕。本編以此漢文流為唯一底本，卷次照底本，四卷各為一單元；每卷卷首有一段喻題目錄，照錄於原典層與白話層題署段。全帙九十八喻，各以『（N）…喻』自標為題；論末自稱「尊者僧伽斯那造作癡花鬘竟」〔T04 0557c24〕，「癡花鬘」是本書的別名，本編不作題署。
二、喻之體
每一喻兩段。前段敘一事，主角多是「愚人」「有人」「一人」，沒有名字；事畢或有眾人嗤笑。後段以「亦復如是」「亦爾」「譬如」「猶如」轉入法，所指為外道、比丘、四輩弟子、世人。本編白話一喻一段，長喻依譬、合分為二段；考據第十目逐喻記譬段與合段的起訖、合法句、所喻之法與譬合不相稱處。
三、序分之位
大正底本卷第一喻二十一之後、卷尾卷題之後，有一段序：「聞如是：一時佛在王舍城，在鵲封竹園」〔T04 0546a16〕起，至「汝等善聽！今為汝廣說眾喻」〔T04 0546b10〕止，三百七十四字。宋元明三本將此段移於卷首，大正校注誌之。本編照底本之位譯出，自成一段，異處錄於考據第九目，不判孰是。
四、鏡與古疏
本經在所查漢藏範圍內無逐文古疏，亦無別譯，本編誠實記零，不代擬。每喻之合段即本喻自釋，義疏所引經證皆取自合段。所喻之法若與本編所收諸帙底本有逐字相同之句，考據第三目錄其錨；查無則記未見。不引現代學者，不引巴利本生對照。
五、守住的界線
喻題照底本首行逐字，卷首目錄與之異者並錄。校本異文照大正校注逐條錄，並錄不判。梵名唯依古德音寫所傳，未傳者存漢音。讀者面不出任何工作用語。
I. The Work and Its Base Text
The Sūtra of One Hundred Parables, Taishō volume 4, number 209, in four fascicles, is attributed “composed by the Venerable Sengqiesina” (T04 0543a06) and “translated by Qiunapidi, Tripiṭaka master from India, under the Southern Qi” (T04 0543a07). This edition takes this Chinese text as its sole base; the fascicle division follows the base text, and each fascicle is one unit. Each fascicle opens with a table of parable titles, reproduced in the Source Text and in the colophon paragraph of the Plain Reading. The whole work has ninety-eight parables, each headed by its own numbered title ending in “parable.” At the end of the treatise the author calls the work “the Garland of Flowers for the Foolish” (T04 0557c24); this edition records that name but does not use it as the title.
II. The Form of a Parable
Each parable has two parts. The first narrates a deed; its protagonist is mostly “a foolish man,” “a man,” “one man,” without a name; when the deed is done, the people often laugh. The second part turns to the Dharma with “it is just the same,” “so too,” “like,” or “as,” and points at followers of other paths, bhikṣus, the four kinds of disciples, or worldly people. In this edition the Plain Reading gives one paragraph per parable, a long parable being divided into story and application; the tenth topic of the Apparatus records, parable by parable, where story and application begin and end, the sentence that makes the application, the teaching intended, and the places where story and application do not match.
III. The Place of the Preface
In the Taishō base text, after the twenty-one parables of Fascicle 1 and after the closing fascicle title, there is a preface of three hundred and seventy-four characters, from “Thus it was heard: at one time the Buddha was in Rājagṛha, in the Bamboo Grove of Kalandaka” (T04 0546a16) to “Listen well! I shall now set out the many parables for you at length” (T04 0546b10). The Song, Yuan, and Ming editions move this passage to the head of the fascicle, as the Taishō notes record. This edition translates it where the base text places it, as a paragraph of its own; the difference is recorded in the ninth topic of the Apparatus, without judging which is right.
IV. Mirror and Old Commentary
Within the Chinese canon consulted, this work has no running old commentary and no alternate translation; this edition records zero honestly and supplies none in its place. The application of each parable is that parable’s own interpretation, and every scriptural proof cited in the Exposition is drawn from the applications. Where the teaching a parable illustrates has a sentence verbatim identical in the base text of another work carried in this edition, the third topic of the Apparatus records its locus; where nothing is found, it records that nothing was found. No modern scholars are cited, and no concordance with the Pali Jātakas is made.
V. Lines Kept
Parable titles follow the first line of the base text verbatim; where the fascicle’s table of contents differs, both are recorded. Variants in the recensions are recorded item by item from the Taishō notes, recorded without adjudication. Sanskrit names follow only the transcriptions handed down by the old masters; where none was handed down, the Chinese sound is kept. The reader’s pages carry no working vocabulary.
讀法How to read
一、先找合段第一句
每一喻讀兩遍。第一遍讀事，看愚人做了什麼、眾人為什麼笑。第二遍從後段第一句開始——「世人亦爾」「譬如外道」「比丘亦爾」——往回對：事裡的每一物，對法裡的哪一件。鹽對節飲食，牛乳對布施，水對戒，衣對法，三重樓對道果。對上了，這一喻就讀完了。
二、五層怎麼配著讀
白話一喻一段，段首 〔N·喻題〕 是全帙喻序與底本喻題。長喻分譬、合兩段。先讀白話；覺得一句轉得突然，回原典看那一句，底本就是這樣轉的。考據第十目『譬合對位』把每喻的對法列成表，讀白話對不上時看它。義疏不逐喻講，依合段所指的人分組，講一組喻合起來是什麼人。心要另起一線，只引經的逐字。
三、笑
九十八喻裡，底本寫出『笑』的有三十喻，卷第一十二喻。笑是旁觀者看見錯處的聲音。沒有寫笑的喻裡，錯處把旁觀者也滅了、或者旁觀者自己也信了的那幾喻，要多停一下。
四、什麼不在這裡
這裡沒有巴利本生的對照，沒有現代學者的考訂，沒有譬喻文學史。這些事可以做，不在這部書的讀者面做。
五、序
卷第一末尾有一段五百梵志問佛的序，底本放在卷尾，別本放在卷首。先讀喻再讀序，或先讀序再讀喻，都可以；讀到「汝今不死亦知死苦」〔T04 0546b07〕這一句，回頭看九十八喻裡的愚人都錯在哪裡，便知道這部書為什麼要用喻。
I. First Find the Opening Sentence of the Application
Read each parable twice. The first time, read the story: what the fool did, and why the people laughed. The second time, begin from the first sentence of the second part, “so too are worldly people,” “like the followers of other paths,” “so too the bhikṣu,” and match backward: each thing in the story against which thing in the Dharma. Salt against moderating food, milk against giving, water against the precepts, garments against the Dharma, the three-storied tower against the fruits of the Way. Once matched, the parable has been read.
II. How to Read the Five Layers Together
The Plain Reading gives one paragraph per parable; the label at the head of the paragraph carries the parable’s number in the whole work and its title from the base text. A long parable is divided into story and application. Read the Plain Reading first; when a sentence seems to turn abruptly, go back to the Source Text for that sentence, for the base text turns in just that way. The tenth topic of the Apparatus, the correspondence of parable and application, lays out each parable’s matching in a table; consult it when the Plain Reading does not match on its own. The Exposition does not go parable by parable; it groups the parables by whom the application points at, and says what one group of parables, taken together, describes. The Essentials open a separate line and quote only the words of the text.
III. Laughter
Of the ninety-eight parables, thirty have laughter written in the base text, twelve of them in the first fascicle. Laughter is the sound of onlookers seeing the fault. Among the parables without written laughter, pause a little longer over those in which the fault destroys the onlookers too, or the onlookers themselves believe.
IV. What Is Not Here
There is no concordance with the Pali Jātakas, no textual criticism by modern scholars, no history of parable literature. These things can be done; they are not done on the reader’s pages of this book.
V. The Preface
At the end of Fascicle 1 there is a preface in which five hundred brāhmaṇa students question the Buddha; the base text places it at the end of the fascicle, other recensions at the head. One may read the parables first and the preface after, or the preface first and the parables after. On reaching the sentence “you are not yet dead, and yet you know that death is suffering” (T04 0546b07), look back at where the fools of the ninety-eight parables went wrong, and it becomes clear why this book speaks in parables.
凡例Conventions
一、底本、範圍與分卷
底本為《大正新脩大藏經》T04n0209，蕭齊求那毘地譯《百喻經》四卷。卷次照底本，每卷為一單元；宋元明三本不分卷之校注並錄於考據，不據以改分。
二、喻為分節
一卷之中以喻為節。原典層每喻之題『（N）…喻』自成一行帶錨，喻文同頁併行、換頁換行。白話層一喻一段，段首作 〔N·喻題〕（頁錨），N 為全帙喻序，喻題照底本首行逐字去序號；長喻可分譬、合二段，段首仍一喻一標。卷首題署與目錄作 〔題署·卷第N〕；卷尾卷題作 〔卷題·百喻經卷第N〕；卷第一之序作 〔序·聞如是〕；卷第四論末結偈作 〔結偈〕。此四種段不計喻數。
三、喻題
讀者面喻題一律照底本首行逐字，含異體；卷首目錄所列與首行相異者，考據第一目並錄。
四、合段與說者
每喻合段（「亦復如是」「亦爾」「譬如」「猶如」以下）為撰者直說，白話譯全，不省、不併。喻中人物對話依底本「言」「曰」「問」「答」分屬，敘事主語是撰者。
五、五層分工
原典——照錄底本，保留卷題、撰譯署名、目錄、喻題與頁錨。
白話——逐喻對譯，覆蓋每一語義動勢。
考據——十目：九目同淨土軸諸帙，第十目『譬合對位』。
義疏——以喻為主語，依合段所指分組，末節『承衍』。
心要——另起一線，不跟義疏目次，只引經之逐字。
六、鏡與古疏
本經無逐文古疏、無別譯，本編誠實記零，不代擬。所喻之法與本編所收諸帙底本逐字相同之句，考據第三目錄錨；查無則記未見。不引現代學者，不引巴利本生。
七、逐字引文與頁錨
雙角引號只放逐字引文，標點照底本；單角引號只作今語提挈。頁錨取所引首字所在之藏本行界，短式〔T04 0543a16〕。
八、校勘、歧異與存疑
大正校注與校記逐條錄於考據第九目，並錄不判；用字照底本，含特殊碼位之字。有疑之處並錄存疑，不寫成判語。
I. Base Text, Scope, and Fascicles
The base text is T04n0209 of the Taishō canon, the Sūtra of One Hundred Parables in four fascicles, translated by Qiunapidi under the Southern Qi. The fascicle division follows the base text, each fascicle being one unit; the notes recording that the Song, Yuan, and Ming editions do not divide the fascicles are recorded in the Apparatus and are not used to change the division.
II. The Parable as Section
Within a fascicle the parable is the section. In the Source Text each parable’s numbered title stands on its own line with a locus; the parable text runs on within the same page and breaks at a page change. In the Plain Reading each parable is one paragraph, headed by a label giving the parable’s number in the whole work, its title taken verbatim from the first line of the base text without the number, and a locus; a long parable may be divided into story and application, still under one label. The colophon and table of contents at the head of a fascicle are labelled as the colophon of that fascicle; the fascicle title at its end as the fascicle title; the preface of Fascicle 1 as the preface; the closing verses at the end of Fascicle 4 as the closing verses. These four kinds of paragraph are not counted as parables.
III. Parable Titles
On the reader’s pages the parable title always follows the first line of the base text verbatim, variant characters included; where the fascicle’s table of contents differs from the first line, the first topic of the Apparatus records both.
IV. The Application and the Speaker
The application of each parable, from “it is just the same,” “so too,” “like,” or “as” onward, is the author’s direct speech; the Plain Reading translates it in full, without omission or merging. Speech within a parable is assigned by the base text’s “said,” “asked,” and “answered”; the narrating subject is the author.
V. The Division of the Five Layers
Source Text—reproduces the base text, keeping the fascicle titles, the author’s and translator’s attributions, the tables of contents, the parable titles, and the loci.
Plain Reading—translates parable by parable, covering every semantic movement.
Apparatus—ten topics: nine shared with the works of the Pure Land axis, and a tenth, the correspondence of parable and application.
Exposition—speaks with the parable as its subject, grouped by whom the application points at, with a closing section, Carrying Forward.
Essentials—a separate line, not following the order of the Exposition, quoting only the words of the text.
VI. Mirror and Old Commentary
This work has no running old commentary and no alternate translation; this edition records zero honestly and supplies none. Where the teaching a parable illustrates has a sentence verbatim identical in the base text of another work carried in this edition, the third topic of the Apparatus records its locus; where nothing is found, it records that nothing was found. No modern scholars and no Pali Jātakas are cited.
VII. Verbatim Quotation and Loci
In the Chinese pages, double corner brackets hold only verbatim quotation, punctuated as in the base text; single corner brackets hold only present-day paraphrase. In the English pages, verbatim quotation of the base text appears in English within quotation marks, and in the Apparatus the Chinese original is kept beside its English rendering. The locus is the line boundary of the canon on which the first quoted character stands, in the short form T04 0543a16.
VIII. Collation, Divergence, and Open Questions
The Taishō notes and collation records are recorded item by item in the ninth topic of the Apparatus, recorded without adjudication; characters follow the base text, including those at special code points. Doubtful points are recorded as doubtful, side by side, and are not written as judgements.
譯者Translator
一、撰者與漢譯者
底本署「尊者僧伽斯那撰」〔T04 0543a06〕、「蕭齊天竺三藏求那毘地譯」〔T04 0543a07〕。四卷卷首署名皆同。本編照錄，不另考其傳；二名之梵形古德音寫未傳，本編存漢音。
二、鏡與證人
本經無逐文古疏，無別譯。每喻之合段即撰者自釋，本編以合段為每喻之經證。大正藏所校宋、元、明、麗、卍諸本異文，照錄為校勘證人。
三、本編譯注者
釋慧鏡（Shi Huijing）譯注，雙語五層。義理之裁、詞之取捨、印可皆出譯者一手。
譯者 釋慧鏡。AI 於指月計畫各端之角色，總說維護於 waken.org/methodology。
I. The Author and the Chinese Translator
The base text is attributed “composed by the Venerable Sengqiesina” (T04 0543a06) and “translated by Qiunapidi, Tripiṭaka master from India, under the Southern Qi” (T04 0543a07); the attribution is the same at the head of all four fascicles. This edition reproduces it and does not investigate their biographies further; for the two names no Sanskrit form transcribed by the old masters has been handed down, and this edition keeps the Chinese sound.
II. Mirror and Witnesses
This work has no running old commentary and no alternate translation. The application of each parable is the author’s own interpretation, and this edition takes the application as the scriptural proof for each parable. The variants of the Song, Yuan, Ming, Koryŏ, and Manji editions collated in the Taishō canon are reproduced as witnesses for collation.
III. The Translator and Annotator of This Edition
Translated and annotated by Shi Huijing, in two languages and five layers. Doctrinal decisions, the choice of words, and the final word are all the translator’s own hand.
Translator · Shi Huijing. The full statement of AI's role across the 指月 project is maintained at waken.org/methodology.
書目Bibliography
一、本編底本
- 《百喻經》 四卷 · 尊者僧伽斯那撰 · 蕭齊天竺三藏求那毘地譯 · T04n0209。卷第一自
0543a04卷題至0546b11序末；二十一喻，四千二百九十四字。
本編各單元之起訖與字數見索引。
二、對勘本
大正藏校記所引：【宋】【元】【明】三本、【麗】高麗藏、【卍】卍正藏；卷第一另有宋元明三本置於卷首之三百七十四字序與不分卷校注。本編唯作校勘證人，並錄不判。
三、承衍古鏡
本經無逐文古疏，無別譯；此欄如實記無。
四、引用方式
原典引文作雙角引號加頁錨〔T04 0543a16〕；頁錨為所引首字所在之藏本行界。
五、取用範圍
本編不採現代校訂本、不採巴利本生對照、不引現代學者。
I. Base Text of This Edition
- Sūtra of One Hundred Parables in four fascicles · composed by the Venerable Sengqiesina · translated by Qiunapidi, Tripiṭaka master from India, under the Southern Qi · T04n0209. Fascicle 1 runs from the fascicle title at
0543a04to the end of the preface at0546b11: twenty-one parables, four thousand two hundred and ninety-four characters.
The extent and character count of each unit are given in the Indices.
II. Recensions Collated
Cited in the Taishō collation notes: the Song, Yuan, and Ming editions, the Koryŏ canon, and the Manji canon; for Fascicle 1 there is also the preface of three hundred and seventy-four characters that the Song, Yuan, and Ming editions place at the head of the fascicle, and the notes on their not dividing the fascicles. This edition uses them only as witnesses for collation, recorded without adjudication.
III. Old Mirrors Carried Forward
This work has no running old commentary and no alternate translation; this column records none, as is the case.
IV. Manner of Citation
Quotations from the source text are given within quotation marks with a locus, as in T04 0543a16; the locus is the line boundary of the canon on which the first quoted character stands.
V. Scope of Use
This edition does not adopt modern critical editions, does not make a concordance with the Pali Jātakas, and does not cite modern scholars.
索引Indices
本索引列各單元及每單元的完整五層連結。起訖依 T04n0209 的實際頁欄行；喻序為全經連續序。
一、單元
| 單元 | 名 | T04n0209 起訖 | 喻 | 五層 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 卷第一（喻一至二十一·附序分） | 0543a04–0546b11 | 1–21 | 原典 · 白話 · 考據 · 義疏 · 心要 |
| 02 | 卷第二（喻二十二至四十一） | 0546b12–0549b16 | 22–41 | 原典 · 白話 · 考據 · 義疏 · 心要 |
| 03 | 卷第三（喻四十二至六十五） | 0549b17–0553b06 | 42–65 | 原典 · 白話 · 考據 · 義疏 · 心要 |
| 04 | 卷第四（喻六十六至九十八·附結偈） | 0553b07–0557c25 | 66–98 | 原典 · 白話 · 考據 · 義疏 · 心要 |
二、讀路
| 範圍 | 讀路 |
|---|---|
| 卷第一 | 先讀卷末序分，再逐喻讀白話（事段、合段），義疏五節，心要最後 |
| 卷第二 | 本卷無序分；逐喻讀白話（事段、合段），義疏六節，心要最後 |
| 卷第三 | 本卷無序分；逐喻讀白話（事段、合段），兩喻合段作偈；義疏六節，心要最後 |
| 卷第四 | 本卷無序分；逐喻讀白話（事段、合段），一喻合段引偈，卷末撰者結偈十二行；義疏七節，心要最後 |
三、名相
名相逐單元彙集於詞彙對照。
This index lists the units and the complete five-layer links for each. The extent follows the actual page, column, and line of T04n0209; parable numbers run continuously through the whole work.
I. Units
| Unit | Name | T04n0209 extent | Parables | Five layers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Fascicle 1 (Parables 1–21, with the Preface) | 0543a04–0546b11 | 1–21 | Source Text · Plain Reading · Apparatus · Exposition · Essentials |
| 02 | Fascicle 2 (Parables 22–41) | 0546b12–0549b16 | 22–41 | Source Text · Plain Reading · Apparatus · Exposition · Essentials |
| 03 | Fascicle 3 (Parables 42–65) | 0549b17–0553b06 | 42–65 | Source Text · Plain Reading · Apparatus · Exposition · Essentials |
| 04 | Fascicle 4 (Parables 66–98, with the Closing Verses) | 0553b07–0557c25 | 66–98 | Source Text · Plain Reading · Apparatus · Exposition · Essentials |
II. Reading Paths
| Range | Path |
|---|---|
| Fascicle 1 | Read the preface at the end of the fascicle first, then the Plain Reading parable by parable (story, then application), the five sections of the Exposition, and the Essentials last |
| Fascicle 2 | This fascicle has no preface; read the Plain Reading parable by parable (story, then application), the six sections of the Exposition, and the Essentials last |
| Fascicle 3 | This fascicle has no preface; read the Plain Reading parable by parable (story, then application), two applications being in verse; then the six sections of the Exposition, and the Essentials last |
| Fascicle 4 | This fascicle has no preface; read the Plain Reading parable by parable (story, then application), one application quoting a verse, and the author’s twelve closing verse lines at the end of the fascicle; then the seven sections of the Exposition, and the Essentials last |
III. Terms
Terms are gathered unit by unit in the Glossary.
題署Colophon
一、題署
書名作《百喻經》。本編各單元末行統一署式為：
*釋慧鏡 · 指月 · 百喻經 · {卷} · 2026 秋*
卷首各篇以篇名代卷。漢文題名依 T04n0209；英文題名作 Sūtra of One Hundred Parables，卷作 Fascicle N。
二、底本
原典依 T04n0209。卷第一自 0543a01 至 0546b11；卷第二自 0546b12 至 0549b16；卷第三自 0549b17 至 0553b06；卷第四自 0553b07 至 0557c25。
三、單元與雙語五層
每單元為一卷，原典一層、白話考據義疏心要四層各 zh、en 二檔。單元目錄見索引。
四、引用本編
釋慧鏡譯注，《百喻經》雙語五層讀本，指月，2026。引用某單元某層時，加單元與層名。
五、引用原典
《百喻經》四卷，T04n0209，大正新脩大藏經第四冊。
六、授權與更正
除另有標示者外，本編所作白話、考據、義疏、心要、英譯與編排，依 CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 授權使用：須具名、限非商業使用，改作須以相同方式分享。原典為公有領域。更正隨版次記於各單元，不另立勘誤表。
釋慧鏡 · 指月 · 百喻經 · 題署 · 2026 秋
I. Attribution
The work is titled Sūtra of One Hundred Parables. The closing line of every unit in this edition follows one form:
*Shi Huijing · 指月 · Sūtra of One Hundred Parables · {fascicle} · Autumn 2026*
The front-matter pages put the page name in place of the fascicle. The Chinese title follows T04n0209; the English title is Sūtra of One Hundred Parables, and the units are Fascicle N.
II. Base Text
The Source Text follows T04n0209. Fascicle 1 runs from 0543a01 to 0546b11; Fascicle 2 from 0546b12 to 0549b16; Fascicle 3 from 0549b17 to 0553b06; Fascicle 4 from 0553b07 to 0557c25.
III. Units and the Bilingual Five Layers
Each unit is one fascicle, with one Source Text layer and, in Chinese and in English, four layers: Plain Reading, Apparatus, Exposition, and Essentials. The list of units is in the Indices.
IV. Citing This Edition
Shi Huijing, Sūtra of One Hundred Parables, translated and annotated (指月), 2026. When citing a layer of a unit, add the unit and the layer.
V. Citing the Source
Sūtra of One Hundred Parables, four fascicles, T04n0209, Taishō volume 4.
VI. License and Corrections
Except where otherwise marked, the Plain Reading, Apparatus, Exposition, Essentials, English translation, and arrangement made for this edition are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: attribution required, non-commercial use only, and derivative works shared under the same terms. The canonical text remains in the public domain. Corrections are recorded in each unit as editions change; no separate list of errata is kept.
Shi Huijing · 指月 · Sūtra of One Hundred Parables · Colophon · Autumn 2026