Summary
s.1The sūtra The Hundred Deeds, whose title could also be translated as The Hundred Karmas, is a collection of stories known as avadāna—a narrative genre widely represented in the Sanskrit Buddhist literature and its derivatives—comprising more than 120 individual texts. It includes narratives of Buddha Śākyamuni’s notable deeds and foundational teachings, the stories of other well-known Buddhist figures, and a variety of other tales featuring people from all walks of ancient Indian life and beings from all six realms of existence. The texts sometimes include stretches of verse. In the majority of the stories the Buddha’s purpose in recounting the past lives of one or more individuals is to make definitive statements about the karmic ripening of actions across multiple lifetimes, and the sūtra is perhaps the best known of the many works in the Kangyur on this theme.
s.1《百業經》是一部經典，其標題也可翻譯為《百業經》，是一部故事集合，稱為本生譚——這是梵文佛教文獻及其衍生文獻中廣泛流傳的敘事文體——包含超過一百二十個獨立的文本。它包括釋迦牟尼佛的重要業行和根本教法的敘述、其他著名佛教人物的故事，以及各種其他故事，這些故事涉及古印度社會各個階層的人物和六道眾生。這些文本有時包含韻文段落。在大多數故事中，佛陀敘述一個或多個有情的往世生命的目的，是對業行在多個生命周期中的業果進行明確的闡述，而這部經典可能是甘珠爾中許多關於此主題著作中最著名的。