Summary
摘要
s.1In the context of one of the most famous stories in all of Buddhist literature—the story of the Buddha’s half-brother Nanda—The Teaching to the Venerable Nanda on Dwelling in the Womb offers the Buddha’s detailed account of the thirty-eight weeks of human gestation. The Buddha gives this teaching to Nanda after taking him to visit other realms, as the final method to break Nanda of his infatuation with his beautiful wife and settle him in the monastic life and its result. The sūtra explains conception in terms of how the antarābhava (the being in the state between death in one life and birth in the next) enters the womb, and it details the physical composition of the embryo, the suffering of the newborn being, and the miseries experienced over the course of a lifetime. After the concluding verses, there is also an account of Nanda’s past lives. Including as it does the most comprehensive ancient Indian account of gestation, this sūtra was an important source for embryology in Tibetan medicine.
s.1在佛教文學中最著名的故事之一——佛陀同父異母的兄弟阿難的故事——的背景下，《為阿難說處胎經》呈現了佛陀對人類妊娠三十八週的詳細闡述。佛陀在帶阿難遊歷其他諸天後向他傳授此法教，作為使阿難斷除對美麗妻子的執著、並引導他安住於僧伽生活及其果報的最終方便。本經以中有眾生進入胎藏的方式來解釋受孕，並詳細說明胎兒的物質組成、新生眾生所經歷的痛苦，以及一生中所遭受的各種苦難。在經文結尾偈頌之後，還記述了阿難的過去生世。由於本經包含了古代印度關於胎兒發育最為全面的記載，它成為了藏醫胚胎學的重要文獻來源。