《撰集百緣經》="Zhuang Ji Bai Yuan Jiamg"(The Sutra of Collected Occasions); 發願=one's merits to others; 授記=the fruits of Buddha; 成佛=to become a Buddha; 辟支佛=Pratyeka-Buddha〈one who seeks enlightenment for himself, defined in the Lotus sutra as a believer who is diligent and zealous in seeking wisdom〉
The Fruits Stories in the Buddhism has undergone changes into three meanings. The first one is its original meanings ─ analytics teachings or in the asking and answering way to explain teachings, the second meant the prophecies or the changes and the results that decent Buddha have made, and the last meant the fruits of Buddhism or the predictions when students become Buddha what names would give to them ? There are many records about "The Fruits of Buddhism" in Chinese translated editions' Buddhism. The Fruits story of "Zhuang Ji Bai Yuan Jiamg" (The Sutra of Collected Occasions) translated by Wu Zhi Chien contains three types of contents ─ fruits of Buddha, fruits of Pratyeka-Buddha 〈one who seeks enlightenment for himself, defined in the Lotus sutra as a believer who is diligent and zealous in seeking wisdom 〉 and fruits how Buddha has been respected in the past. Whether these three contains different philosophies in the different periods and what are their functions? They are worth to take into discussions. The text would like to discuss the topic about the fruits stories of "Zhuang Ji Bai Yuan Jiamg"(The Sutra of Collected Occasions) and takes it into four parts. First is to clarify the definitions of "Fruits", the second is to analyze the forms of fruits stories form the point of nowadays' fruits view to examine future and past fruits stories and the last is to discuss the contents of the fruits stories. I will emphasize the values of "Zhuang Ji Bai Yuan Jiamg"(The Sutra of Collected Occasions) from the points of religion and literature. I will do the research about philosophies of the fruits stories in my next topic of paper.
