中天竺舍衛國祇洹寺圖經 1.34

1.34

大門之西，又有七院。最南東邊第一，名菩薩四諦之院。內有大堂，門向北巷，林池充滿。諸菩薩等詳述四諦，詞理博約，有空縛解，凡聖通塞並集其中。諸院學宗例此，不備廣述。院有金鐘，三重鼻，有九龍形。至時，龍口多吐雲氣，鐘即自鳴，聲如天琴，聞二十里。和修吉龍王所造施。昔拘樓秦佛因地時，佛工巧師自運思造：願我當來得金色身，恒令此鐘供養諸佛。

West of the great gate, there are another seven courtyards. The first on the easternmost edge to the south is called the Courtyard of the Bodhisattva Four Truths. Inside is a great hall; its gate faces the northern lane, and it is filled with groves and ponds. The bodhisattvas elaborate in detail upon the Four Truths, their words and principles expansive yet succinct; the existing and the empty, bondage and liberation, the ordinary and the holy, obstruction and penetration—all gather within it. The schools of study in the various courtyards follow this pattern, so they are not detailed comprehensively. The courtyard has a golden bell with a triple loop bearing the forms of nine dragons. When the time arrives, the dragons' mouths billow out great clouds of mist, and the bell spontaneously rings, its sound like a celestial zither, heard for twenty li. It was made and donated by the Nāgarāja Vāsuki. Long ago, when Krakucchanda Buddha was on the causal stage, a master craftsman of the Buddha exercised his own ingenuity to make it, [vowing:] 'May I in the future attain a golden body, and perpetually cause this bell to make offerings to the Buddhas.'