EĀ 17.3
Ekottarāgama 增壹阿含经
17.3 （三）
Parallel to: AN 2.56–57 (~)
Thus have I heard: | 闻如是： |
At one time, the Buddha was at Anāthapiṇḍada's Park in the Jeta Grove near Śrāvastī. | 一时，佛在舍卫国祇树给孤独园。 |
At that time, the World-Honored One told the bhikṣus, "It is very difficult to have two kinds of people appear in the world. What are the two? It is very difficult to have pratyekabuddhas appear in the world; it is very difficult to have the Tathāgata's disciples who have exhausted the taints and attained arahantship appear in the world. These are the two kinds of people who are very difficult to have appear in the world." | 尔时，世尊告诸比丘：「二人出现于世甚为难得。云何为二人？所谓辟支佛出现世间甚为难得；如来弟子漏尽阿罗汉出现世间甚为难得。是谓，比丘！此二人者出现于世甚为难得。」 |
At that time, the bhikṣus, having heard the Buddha's teaching, rejoiced and received it respectfully. | 尔时，诸比丘闻佛所说，欢喜奉行。 |
Translated from Chinese using Gemma-2-Mitra (Buddhist-NLP).
This is the classical Chinese root text of Ekottarāgama, a parallel to the Pali sutta(s) listed above. Source: CBETA (Taishō edition).