[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) › 29.40 # 佛祖統紀 29.40 佛祖統紀 29.40 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [29.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.29.40) 法師無畏者。甘露飯王之後也。遜國遺榮。出家學道。所至說法必有異相。至烏茶國演遮那經。眾見毘盧遮那四金字於空中。其徑尋丈（應是順西土梵書成形也）及過龍河。駝負經竟入水。無畏隨之。龍王請入宮。講法三日。開元四年至長安。帝先夢。梵僧來謁。及寤命工肖形於壁。洎師入對。即夢所見者。館之西明寺。稱為教主。秋旱詔禱雨。師以數定為難曰。必欲致雨恐龍暴物。使諭曰。民苦旱久矣。暴風疾雨適足快意。即持鉢握小刃攪之。誦密言百過。俄有物若蚪。矯首出鉢。白氣盈空。語使人速歸。使回視見密雲如練。自講堂盤空而上。已而震雷風雨飄蕩廬舍。彌日方息。又以積雨不止。即揑泥為五媼。作梵語向之。若叱詈者。即刻而霽。譯毘盧遮那蘇悉地揭羅等經十餘部。弟子寶月一行。皆足受道。數求還西。上安慰不許。二十三年示滅。真體不壞。塔於龍門之西山（本朝太祖。乾德九年上幸洛陽龍門山廣化寺。問無畏三藏塔。瞻敬真體）。 > Dharma Master Śubhakarasiṃha was a descendant of King Amṛtodana. Relinquishing the kingdom and leaving behind glory, he left the household to study the Way; wherever he went to preach the Dharma, miraculous signs invariably appeared. When he reached the kingdom of Oḍra to expound the \*Vairocana-sūtra\*, the assembly saw four golden characters reading 'Vairocana' in the sky, a xun or a zhang across (these must have been formed in the Sanskrit script of the Western lands). When he crossed the Dragon River, the camel bearing the scriptures walked straight into the water; Śubhakarasiṃha followed it, and the Dragon King invited him into the palace, where he lectured on the Dharma for three days. In the fourth year of Kaiyuan, he arrived in Chang'an. The Emperor had previously dreamed of an Indian monk coming for an audience, and upon waking had ordered an artisan to paint his likeness on the wall; when the Master entered for the audience, he was the very one seen in the dream. He was housed at Ximing Temple and acclaimed as the Lord of the Teaching. During an autumn drought, an edict ordered him to pray for rain; the Master regarded the predestined numbers as an obstacle, saying: 'If rain must be brought, I fear the dragon will harm things violently.' The imperial envoy instructed him, saying: 'The people have suffered from drought for a long time; violent wind and swift rain will be quite gratifying.' Thereupon, holding a bowl and grasping a small blade, he stirred it, reciting secret words a hundred times. Suddenly, an object like a small dragon raised its head and emerged from the bowl, its white vapor filling the sky. He told the envoy to return swiftly; looking back, the envoy saw dense clouds like white silk coiling upward into the sky from the lecture hall. Soon after, thunder pealed, and wind and rain tossed houses about, subsiding only after a full day. Furthermore, when prolonged rain would not cease, he kneaded mud into five old women, spoke to them in Sanskrit as if scolding them, and it cleared immediately. He translated more than ten sections of scriptures, including the \*Vairocana\* and \*Susiddhikara\*. His disciples Baoyue and Yixing were both fully capable of receiving the Way. He repeatedly requested to return to the west, but the Emperor consoled him and did not permit it. In the twenty-third year, he manifested extinction; his true body did not decay, and a stupa was built for him in the western mountains of Longmen (in the ninth year of the Qiande era of our present dynasty, Taizu visited Guanghua Temple on Longmen Mountain in Luoyang, inquired about the stupa of Tripiṭaka Master Śubhakarasiṃha, and gazed in reverent homage upon the true body). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 29.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.29.39) - [Next: 29.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.29.41) - [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.29.40) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.29.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.29.40) · Pramāṇa