oh Len yan jing(Shurangama sutra) also mention:
quote:
Thus I have heard. At one time
the Buddha was in the state of Kushinagara. The Tathagata was to
enter Nirvana within three months and the bhikshus and Bodhisattvas
as well as the great multitude of beings had come to the Buddha to
pay homage to the Buddha and to bow in reverence. The World Honored
One was tranquil and silent. He spoke not a word and his light did
not appear. Worthy Ananda bowed and asked the Buddha, "O Bhagavan,
heretofore whenever you spoke the Dharma, awesome light would
naturally appear. Yet today among this great assembly there is no
such radiance. There must be a good cause for this, and we wish to
hear the Bhagavan's explanation."
The Buddha remained silent and did not answer until the request had
been repeated three times. He then told Ananda, "After I enter
Nirvana, when the Dharma is about to perish, during the Evil Age of
the Five Turbidities (see Five Turbidities), the way of demons will
flourish. Demonic beings will become Shramanas (see entry); they
will pervert and destroy my teachings. Wearing the garb of lay
persons, they will prefer handsome clothes and their precept sashes
will be made of multi-colored cloth. They will use intoxicants, eat
meat, kill other beings, and they will indulge their desire for
flavorful food. They will lack compassion and they will bear hatred
and jealousy even among themselves.
"At that time there will be Bodhisattvas, Pratyekabuddhas, and
Arhats who will reverently and diligently cultivate immaculate
virtue. They will be respected by all people and their teachings
will be fair and egalitarian. These cultivators of the Way will
take pity on the poor, they will be mindful of the aged, and they
will save and give counsel to those people they find in difficult
circumstances. They will at all times exhort others to worship and
to protect the sutras and images of the Buddha. They will do
meritorious deeds, be resolute and kind and never harm others. They
will forsake their bodies for others' benefit. They will hold no
great regard for themselves but will be patient, yielding, humane,
and peaceful.
"If such people exist, the hordes of demonic bhikshus will be
jealous of them. The demons will harass them, slander and defame
them, expel them from their midst and degrade them. They will
ostracize the good monks from the monastic community. Thereafter
these demons will not cultivate the Way-virtue. Their temples and
monastic buildings will be vacant and overgrown with weeds. For
want of care and maintenance their Way-places will drift into ruin
and oblivion. The demonic bhikshus will only be greedy for wealth
and will amass great heaps of goods. They will refuse to distribute
any of it or to use it to gain blessings and virtue.
"At this time, the evil monks will buy and sell slaves to till
their fields and to slash and burn the mountain forests. They will
do harm to living creatures and they will feel not the least bit of
compassion. These slaves will themselves become bhikshus and
maidservants will become bhikshunis. Totally lacking in any
Way-virtue, these people will run amok, indulging in licentious
behavior. In their turbid confusion they will fail to separate the
men from the women in the monastic communities. From this
generation on, the Way will be weakened. Fugitives from the law
will seek refuge in my Way, wishing to become Shramanas but failing
to observe the moral regulations. The precepts will continue to be
recited twice a month, but in name alone. Being lazy and lax, no
one will want to listen any longer. These evil Shramanas will be
unwilling to recite the sutras in their entirety and they will make
abbreviations at the beginning and at the end of the texts as they
please. Soon the practice of reciting sutras will stop altogether.
Even if there are people who recite texts, they will be unlettered,
unqualified people who will insist, nonetheless, that they are
correct. Bumptious, arrogant and vain, these people will seek fame
and glory. They will display elegant airs in the hope of attracting
offerings from other people.
"When the lives of these demonic bhikshus come to an end their
essential spirits will fall into the avici hells. Having committed
the five evil sins, they will suffer successive rebirths as hungry
ghosts and as animals. They will know all such states of woe as
they pass on through aeons as numerous as sands on the banks of the
Ganges River. When their offenses are accounted for they will be
reborn in a border land where the Triple Jewel is unknown.
"When the Dharma is about to disappear, women will become vigorous
and will at all times do deeds of virtue. Men will grow lax and
will no longer speak the Dharma. Those genuine Shramanas they see
will be looked upon as dung and no one will have faith in them.
When the Dharma is about to perish, all the gods will begin to
weep. Rivers will dry up and the five grains will not ripen.
Epidemic diseases will frequently take the lives of multitudes of
people. The masses will toil and suffer while the local officials
will plot and scheme. No one will adhere to principles. Instead,
all people will be ever more numerous like the sands of the
ocean-bed. Good persons will be hard to find; at most there will be
one or two. As the aeon comes to a close, the revolution of the sun
and the moon will grow short and the lifespan of people will
decrease. Their hair will turn white at the age of forty years.
Because of excessive licentious behavior they will quickly exhaust
their seminal fluids and will die at a young age, usually before
sixty years. As the life-span of males decreases, that of females
will increase to seventy, eighty, ninety, or one hundred
years.
"The great rivers will rise up in disharmony with their natural
cycles, yet people will not take notice or feel concern. Extremes
of climate will soon be taken for granted. . . .
"Then there will be Bodhisattvas, Pratyekabuddhas, and Arhats who
will gather together in an unprecedented assembly because they will
have all been harried and pursued by hordes of demons. They will no
longer dwell in the assemblies, but the Three Vehicles will retreat
to the wilderness. In a tranquil place, they will find shelter,
happiness, and long life. Gods will protect them and the moon will
shine down upon them. The Three Vehicles will have an opportunity
to meet together and the way will flourish. However, within
fifty-two years the and the , the Standing Buddha Samadhi, will be
the first to change and then disappear. The twelve divisions of the
canon will gradually follow until they vanish completely, never to
appear again. Its words and texts will be totally unknown ever
after. The precept sashes of Shramanas will turn white of
themselves. When my Dharma disappears, it will be just like an oil
lamp which flares brightly for an instant just before it goes out.
So too, will the Dharma flare and die. After this time it is
difficult to speak with certainty of what will follow.
"So it will remain for the next ten million years. When Maitreya is
about to appear in the world to become the next Buddha, the planet
will be entirely peaceful. Evil vapors will have dissipated, rain
will be ample and regular, the crops will grow abundantly. Trees
will grow to a great height and people will grow to be eighty feet
tall. The average lifespan will extend to 84,000 years. It will be
impossible to count all the beings who will be taken across to
liberation."
Worthy Ananda addressed the Buddha, "What should we call this Sutra
and how shall we uphold it?"
The Buddha said, "Ananda, this Sutra is called . Tell everyone to
propagate it widely; the merit of your actions will be measureless,
beyond reckoning."
When the fourfold assembly of disciples heard this Sutra, they
grieved and wept. Each of them resolved to attain the true Path of
the Supreme Sage. Then bowing to the Buddha, they withdrew. (SS I
xiv-xvi)
ref:
http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Buddhism/BuddhistDict/BDD.html
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