"Illustrated Sutra of the Founding of the Kanchu Ordination Platform"

...It is said that the system of the ordination platform at Jetavana Monastery and Nalanda Temple in India was introduced to China, but this is unclear. In China during the Tang Dynasty, Daoxuan, the great master of the Nanzan Ritsu sect, established an ordination platform at Jingye Temple on the outskirts of Chang'an, and wrote the "Guanzhong Founding Ordination Platform Sutra" to clarify the format of the ordination platform. It was to be a three-tiered platform, with the lower platform measuring 29.8 shaku square and 9 shaku high, the middle platform measuring 23 shaku square and 4.5 shaku high, and the upper platform measuring 7 shaku square and 2 sun high, and it was stipulated that a pagoda containing Buddha's relics should be placed on the upper platform. ...

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…インドの祇園精舎，ナーランダー寺の戒壇の制が中国に伝えられたともいうが，明らかでない。中国では唐代に南山律宗の大成者道宣が，長安郊外の浄業寺で戒壇を設立したが，その際に《関中創立戒壇図経》を著して，戒壇の形式を明らかにした。その形状は三重の壇になり，下壇は方29.8尺で高さ9尺，中壇は方23尺で高さ4.5尺，上壇は方7尺で高さ2寸，上壇には仏舎利を納めた宝塔を安置すると規制している。…

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