Summary
s.1In Transformation of Karma the Buddha is staying in Prince Jeta’s Grove in Śrāvastī, where he is visited by the brahmin youth Śuka, who asks the Blessed One to explain the reason why living beings appear so diversely. The Buddha answers Śuka’s question with a discourse on various categories of actions as well as rebirth and the actions leading to it. The discourse presents fifty-one categories of actions, followed by explanations of the negative consequences of transgressing the five precepts observed by all Buddhists, the advantages gained through caitya worship, and the meritorious results of specific acts of generosity.
s.1在《業的轉化》中，佛陀住在舍衛城祇陀太子的園林裡，婆羅門青年鸚鵡來拜訪他，並請求世尊解釋為什麼眾生的樣貌如此多樣。佛陀用關於各種業的種類、以及與之相關的投生和導致投生的業的開示來回答鸚鵡的問題。這個開示呈現了五十一種業的分類，隨後說明了違反所有佛教徒遵守的五條戒律的負面後果，通過支提禮拜所獲得的益處，以及特定布施行為的福德結果。