[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) › [佛祖統紀](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035) › 26.46 # 佛祖統紀 26.46 佛祖統紀 26.46 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [26.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.26.46) 法安。初依遠公為弟子。妙善講說兼習禪業律身持戒為行尤精。義熙中新陽邑社有暴虎。居神廟樹下。前後害民以百數。安遊其村。居民皆早閉門。乃之樹下禪坐。須臾虎負人至。見安驚喜跳伏。安乃為說法授戒。有頃而去。明旦居民見安。謂是神人。相率禮敬。因改神廟立寺宇。請安居之。左右田園並捨為寺業。甞欲畫像須銅青慮不可致。忽夢一人跪床前云。此下有銅鍾。寤即堀之果得二鍾。取青成像。而以銅助遠公鑄佛。後不知所終。 > Fa'an initially relied upon Master Yuan as his disciple. He was wondrously skilled at lecturing and also practiced dhyāna, disciplining his person and upholding the precepts with particularly refined practice. During the Yixi era, in the settlement of Xinyang, there was a violent tiger living beneath a tree at a local shrine, which had harmed people numbered in the hundreds before and after. When An traveled to that village, the residents had all closed their doors early. He went beneath the tree and sat in dhyāna. In a moment, the tiger arrived carrying a person; seeing An, it was startled, then pleased, jumping and crouching down. An then expounded the Dharma and conferred the precepts upon it, and after a while it left. The next morning, when the residents saw An, they thought he was a spiritual man and together paid homage and respect to him. Consequently, they transformed the local shrine into a monastery and invited An to dwell there, donating all surrounding fields and gardens as monastery property. Once, wishing to paint images, he needed verdigris and worried that it could not be obtained. Suddenly he dreamed of a person kneeling before his bed, saying: "Beneath this place there are bronze bells." Upon awakening, he dug there and indeed found two bells. He took the green patina to make the images, and used the bronze to help Master Yuan cast a Buddha statue. Later, his whereabouts became unknown. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 26.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.26.45) - [Next: 26.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.26.47) - [Up: 26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.26) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035~en-mt.26.46) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.26.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.26.46) · Pramāṇa