[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [大慧普覺禪師宗門武庫](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998b) › 1.42 # 大慧普覺禪師宗門武庫 1.42 大慧普覺禪師宗門武庫 1.42 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998b.1.42) 政和間有熊秀才，鄱陽人，游洪州西山過翠巖，長老思文嗣佛印元禪師，亦是鄱陽人，遣二力擡籃輿至淨相，所經林壑陰翳，偶見一僧，貌古神清，厖眉雪頂，編葉為衣，坐於盤石，如壁間畫佛圖澄之狀，熊自謂曰：「今時無這般僧，甞聞亮座主隱于西山，疑其猶在。」出輿踧踖而前問曰：「莫是亮座主麼？」僧以手向東指，熊方與二力隨手看，回顧失僧所在。時小雨初歇，熊自登石視，坐處猶乾，躊躇四顧太息曰：「夙緣不厚，雖遇猶不遇也。」 > During the Zhenghe era, there was an accomplished scholar named Xiong, a man of Poyang. Wandering in the Western Mountains of Hongzhou, he passed Cuiyan. The elder Siwen, a dharma heir of Chan Master Foyin Yuan, was also a man of Poyang; he dispatched two laborers to carry a bamboo litter to send Xiong to Jingxiang. Through the dense shade of the woods and ravines along the way, he chanced upon a monk: his appearance was ancient and his spirit clear, with shaggy eyebrows and a snow-white head, wearing clothes plaited of leaves, sitting on a flat boulder, just like the painted image of Fotudeng on temple walls. Xiong said to himself, "In these times there are no such monks! I have heard that Lecturer Liang hid away in the Western Mountains; I suspect he is still alive." Stepping out of the litter, he moved forward respectfully and asked, "Might you be Lecturer Liang?" The monk pointed to the east with his hand. Just as Xiong and the two laborers looked in the direction of his hand and turned back, they lost sight of where the monk was. At that time a light rain had just stopped; Xiong climbed the boulder himself to look: the place where the monk sat was still dry. Lingering and looking around in all four directions, he sighed deeply and said, "My past karma is not rich: though I met him, it is as if I did not meet him." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998b.1.41) - [Next: 1.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998b.1.43) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998b.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998b~en-mt.1.42) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998b.1.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998b.1.42) · Pramāṇa