止觀輔行傳弘決 1.28

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「法付富那奢」，奢與馬鳴論，鳴執有我，奢云：「佛法二諦，世諦有我，真諦無我。」鳴欲刎首，奢令剃髮以為弟子。鳴造賴吒和羅妓，妓音之中演於無常苦空無我，聞者悟道。五百王子厭世出家，王恐民盡，禁妓不行。被月氏征，求以九億金錢請和，即以馬鳴佛鉢、一慈心雞以准九憶。月氏受之，歡喜回軍。又行禮塔，塔為之崩，掘其塔得尼乾屍。有剃髮師來求王女，如是再三。王云：「小人何此專輒？」鳴云：「其地有金，故使爾耳。」掘果得藏。其王英勇，三海歸德，殺九億人。鳴云：「我知懺法。」乃七日爨鑊，投一金釧云：「誰能取之。」人無致者。王以水投，從水處取。王因悟曰：「我罪如沸鑊，懺如投水。」鳴為說法，由是罪輕為千頭魚。鐵輪截頭，斷已復出。聞鐘痛息，勸令長打。

"The Dharma was transmitted to Puṇyayaśas." Puṇyayaśas debated with Aśvaghoṣa; Aśvaghoṣa clung to the existence of a self, and Puṇyayaśas said: "In the Buddha's Dharma there are two truths: in conventional truth there is a self, but in ultimate truth there is no self." Aśvaghoṣa wanted to cut off his own head, but Puṇyayaśas had him shave his hair and become his disciple. Aśvaghoṣa composed the Rāṣṭrapāla music, within the sounds of which he expounded impermanence, suffering, emptiness, and non-self; those who heard it were awakened to the Way. Five hundred princes became disillusioned with the world and left the household life; the king, fearing that the population would be exhausted, prohibited the music from being performed. Under attack by the Yuezhi, who demanded nine hundred million pieces of gold for peace, he substituted Aśvaghoṣa, the Buddha's bowl, and a compassionate rooster as equivalent to nine hundred million. The Yuezhi accepted them and joyfully withdrew their army. Furthermore, as he walked paying homage to a stūpa, the stūpa collapsed; digging into the stūpa, the corpse of a Nirgrantha was found. There was a barber who came to ask for the king's daughter, doing so repeatedly. The king said: "Why does this base person act so presumptuously?" Aśvaghoṣa said: "Beneath that ground there is gold, which is why he is made to act thus." They dug, and indeed found a hoard. That king was valiant; the three seas submitted to his virtue, but he had killed nine hundred million people. Aśvaghoṣa said: "I know the method of repentance." He then heated a cauldron for seven days, threw in a gold bracelet, and said: "Who can retrieve it?" No one could fetch it. The king threw in water, and retrieved it from where the water was. The king was thereby awakened, saying: "My sins are like the boiling cauldron, and repentance is like throwing in water." Aśvaghoṣa preached the Dharma for him; because of this, his sin was lightened and he became a fish with a thousand heads. Iron wheels severed its heads; once severed, they grew back again. Hearing the bell, the pain ceased, so he urged that it be rung constantly.