Common Knowledge in Pure Land Teaching
淨土小常識
Slandering the Dharma
The offense that is even heavier than the Five Gravest Transgressions is slandering the Dharma.
The Commentary on the Treatise on Rebirth says, “Question: What are forms of slandering the right Dharma? Answer: If it is said that there is no Buddha, no Buddha Dharma, no Bodhisattvas, no Bodhisattva’s Dharma, or other Buddhist teachings. It doesn’t matter whether it is one’s own interpretation or the acceptance of another’s false interpretations. All of these are regarded as slandering the right Dharma.”
It also says, “Those who slander the right Dharma will fall deeply into Avici hell. At the end of suffering in this section of Avici hell for an eon , they will be transferred to other quarters of Avici hell. Through such cyclic transference they pass through hundreds and thousands of eons. This demonstrates the severity of slandering the right Dharma.
謗法
比五逆罪更重的罪,就是謗法之罪。
《往生論註》言:「問曰:『何等相是誹謗正法?』答曰:『若言無佛、無佛法,無菩薩、無菩薩法,如是等見,若心自解,若從他受,其心決定,皆名誹謗正法。』」
又言:「誹謗正法人,墮阿鼻大地獄中,此劫若盡,復轉至他方阿鼻大地獄中。如是輾轉,經百千阿鼻大地獄,佛不記得出時節;以誹謗正法罪極重故。」
Namo Amituofo!
