[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) › [六祖大師法寶壇經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008) › 1.157 # 六祖大師法寶壇經 1.157 六祖大師法寶壇經 1.157 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.157](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008.1.157) 師說偈已，端坐至三更，忽謂門人曰：「吾行矣！」奄然遷化。于時異香滿室，白虹屬地，林木變白，禽獸哀鳴。十一月，廣韶新三郡官僚，洎門人僧俗，爭迎真身，莫決所之。乃焚香禱曰：「香煙指處，師所歸焉。」時香煙直貫曹溪。十一月十三日，遷神龕併所傳衣鉢而回。次年七月出龕，弟子方辯以香泥上之，門人憶念取首之記，仍以鐵葉漆布固護師頸入塔。忽於塔內白光出現，直上衝天，三日始散。韶州奏聞，奉勅立碑，紀師道行。 > After the Master spoke the verse, he sat upright until the third watch, when he suddenly said to his disciples, "I am going!" and quietly passed away. At that time an extraordinary fragrance filled the room, a white rainbow touched the ground, the forest trees turned white, and birds and beasts cried out in grief. In the eleventh month, the officials of the three commanderies of Guang, Shao, and Xin, together with disciples, monastics, and laypeople, vied to welcome his true body, unable to decide where it should go. Thereupon they burned incense and prayed: "Wherever the incense smoke points, there shall the Master return." At that moment, the incense smoke went straight to Caoxi. On the thirteenth day of the eleventh month, they relocated his funerary shrine along with the transmitted robe and bowl, and returned. In the seventh month of the following year, the shrine was opened; the disciple Fangbian covered \[the body\] with fragrant clay. The disciples, remembering the prediction about taking his head, protected the Master's neck with iron plates and lacquered cloth before placing him in the pagoda. Suddenly a white light appeared within the pagoda, shooting straight up into the sky, and only dispersed after three days. Shaozhou reported this to the throne, and an imperial decree was received to erect a stele recording the Master's practice of the Way. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.156](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008.1.156) - [Next: 1.158](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008.1.158) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008~en-mt.1.157) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008.1.157](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008.1.157) · Pramāṇa