[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) › 36.103 # 佛祖統紀 36.103 佛祖統紀 36.103 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [36.103](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.36.103) 十三年。詔求沙門能述生法師頓悟義者。庾登之以法瑗聞（瑗音援舊諱）召見瑗申辯詳明。何尚之歎曰。意謂生公之沒微言永絕。今復聞象外之談。湘宮寺成。召師居之。帝每臨幸聽法○簡靜寺尼智道。罷道適梁群甫。生子七歲。家貧無衣。思為尼時。有素絹所書法華經。即浣擣為衣著兒體。忽遍身生瘡。白蟲周匝。號叫旬餘而死。聞空中告云。壞經為衣得此劇報。 > In the thirteenth year, an imperial decree sought a śramaṇa capable of expounding Master Daosheng's doctrine of sudden enlightenment. Yu Dengzhi reported Fayuan (yuan is pronounced yuan, an old tabooed name). Fayuan was summoned to an audience and explained it with thorough clarity. He Shangzhi sighed and said: 'I thought that with the passing of the Venerable Daosheng, the subtle words had ceased forever; now I hear once again discourse beyond worldly forms!' When Xiangong Temple was completed, the Master was summoned to reside there. The Emperor visited in person every time to listen to the Dharma. > Nun Zhidao of Jianjing Temple renounced the monastic path and married Liang Qunfu. She bore a son who was seven years old. The family was poor and had no clothes. Remembering that when she was a nun she had a Lotus Sūtra copied on white silk, she washed and beat it into cloth to dress her son. Suddenly sores broke out over his entire body, surrounded by white maggots; he wailed for over ten days and died. A voice was heard proclaiming in the sky: 'Ruining the scripture to make clothes incurs this severe retribution!' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 36.102](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.36.102) - [Next: 36.104](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.36.104) - [Up: 36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.36) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035~en-mt.36.103) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [佛祖歷代通載](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.8.27) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.36.103](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.36.103) · Pramāṇa