[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) › 29.32 # 佛祖統紀 29.32 佛祖統紀 29.32 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [29.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.29.32) 法師窺基。代郡人。金吾衛將軍尉遲敬宗之子。母裴氏。夢吞月而孕。六歲聰慧過人。項有玉枕指文如印。未成童便能著書。初奘三藏得童子於西域。聰悟絕倫。嘗携詣敬宗。宗呼基出拜奘。使誦所著兵書數千言。奘數目童子。基誦畢奘曰。此古書也。令童子覆之。不差一字。宗大怒以基罔己將殺之。奘就匃出家。因念曩在天竺。起歸與之與。卜者謂曰。師可東歸。弟子生矣。讖既冥符。舉以告宗。宗曰。此子悍暴豈堪受訓。奘曰。郎君器度。非將軍不生。非貧道不識。宗竟諾之。基怫然曰。得不斷欲茹葷血過中食聽此三事。乃可爾。奘念先以欲鉤牽。遂矯許之。正觀二十一年。奉勅落髮。時年十七住廣福寺。稟受奘師瑜伽師地唯識宗旨。撰述疏鈔及於百部。時號百部論師。東行博陵。或請講法華。造玄贊大疏十卷。永淳元年十一月。示滅於慈恩翻經院。御製像讚。勅諸寺圖形以祀。祔葬於奘師之瑩。 > Dharma Master Kuiji was a native of Dai Commandery, the son of the General of the Jinwu Guards, Yuchi Jingzong. His mother, Lady Pei, swallowed the moon in a dream and became pregnant. At age six, he surpassed ordinary men in intelligence; on the nape of his neck was a jade pillow-bone, and his fingerprints were like seals. Before he was even a youth, he was already able to compose writings. Earlier, Tripiṭaka Master Xuanzang had acquired a young boy in the Western Regions who was singularly intelligent and alert; he once brought him to visit Jingzong. Jingzong summoned Kuiji to come out and pay respects to Xuanzang, and bade him recite several thousand words of a military treatise he had composed. Xuanzang repeatedly signaled the boy with his eyes. When Kuiji finished reciting, Xuanzang said, 'This is an ancient text,' and ordered the boy to repeat it; he did not err by a single character. Jingzong was furious, thinking Kuiji had deceived him, and was about to execute him. Xuanzang thereupon begged that he be allowed to leave household life, recalling that formerly when he was in India and thought of returning home, a diviner had told him: 'Master, you may return east; your disciple is already born.' Since the prophecy mysteriously matched, he related it all to Jingzong. Jingzong said, 'This child is fierce and violent; how could he endure instruction?' Xuanzang said, 'The young master's capacity could not have been born of anyone but the general, nor recognized by anyone but this poor monk.' In the end, Jingzong consented. Kuiji angrily said, 'Only if I am allowed not to sever desires, to eat meat and blood, and to eat past midday—only if these three matters are granted—will it be permissible.' Xuanzang reflected that one must first draw people in with desires, and so feigned assent. In the twenty-first year of Zhenguan, Kuiji had his head shorn by imperial decree at the age of seventeen, residing at the Guangfu Monastery. He received from Master Xuanzang the essential tenets of the Yogācārabhūmi and Vijñaptimātra, and composed commentaries and sub-commentaries numbering up to a hundred works; at the time he was called the 'Master of a Hundred Treatises'. Traveling east to Boling, someone invited him to lecture on the Lotus Sūtra, and he composed the Xuanzan da shu (Great Commentary of the Profound Praise) in ten fascicles. In the eleventh month of the first year of Yongchun, he manifested nirvāṇa at the Translation Court of the Cien Monastery. The Emperor personally composed an eulogy for his portrait and decreed that monasteries paint his likeness for worship. He was buried adjacent to Master Xuanzang's tomb. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 29.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.29.31) - [Next: 29.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.29.33) - [Up: 29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.29) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035~en-mt.29.32) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.29.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.29.32) · Pramāṇa