[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) › 36.78 # 佛祖統紀 36.78 佛祖統紀 36.78 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [36.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.36.78) 十三年。初餘杭山沙門法志常誦法華。有雉翔集座隅如聽受狀。越七年雉殞。志瘞之。夜夢童子拜曰。因聽經得脫羽類。今生山前王氏家。志詰朝遣問之。如其言。王氏一日設齋。志方踵門。兒曰。我和上來也。志撫之曰。此我雉兒也。解衣視腋下果有雉毳三莖。七歲令入山出家。十六落髮。以腋有毳因名曇翼。初詣廬山依遠法師。續往關中見羅什。後東遊會稽入秦望山。誦法華經越十二年。有女子身披彩服携筠籠。盛一白豕兩根大蒜。至師前曰。妾入山采薇。日已夕矣。豺狼當道歸無生理。敢託一宿。師却之甚堅。女哀鳴不已。遂以草床居之。夜半號呼腹疼。告師案摩。師乃以布裹錫杖。遙為案之。翌旦女以彩服化祥雲。豕變白象。蒜化雙蓮。凌空而上。謂師曰。我普賢菩薩也。以汝不久當歸我眾。特來相試。觀汝心中如水中月不可染污。既而天上雨華。地皆震動。鄉人聞見莫不稱歎。是日太守孟顗。方晨起視事。忽見南方祥雲光射庭際。隱然金石絲竹之音。訪知普賢示化。遂以師道行上聞於朝。勅建法華寺（今天衣寺）師既亡。漆真身留山中（唐武宗廢法。藏像寺南樹中。吳越武肅王。諡飛雲大師）○沙門法莊為遠法師弟子。誦法華為常業。隣人夜間見師房前有兵仗翊衛之狀。道俗傳聞莫不尊敬○沙門曇邃。止河陰白馬寺。日誦正法華兼通講說。夜夢一人叩戶請法師九旬講經。邃不允。固請乃赴。忽見身在白馬塢神祠。弟子一人亦預。自是每日密往。一旦寺僧過祠下聞講說之聲。見對設二高座。異香郁然。夏竟神施白馬一疋白羊五頭絹五十疋。用充講嚫。師即呪願受之。 > In the thirteenth year, earlier, the monk Fazhi of Mount Yuhang constantly recited the Lotus Sūtra. A pheasant flew down and perched at the corner of his seat, appearing to listen and receive it. After seven years the pheasant died, and Zhi buried it. In a dream that night a boy bowed and said, 'Because I listened to the sūtra, I have escaped from the feathered kind, and am now born into the Wang family in front of the mountain.' The next morning Zhi sent someone to inquire about it, and it was just as he had said. One day the Wang family held a vegetarian feast; just as Zhi reached the gate, the boy said, 'My preceptor has come!' Zhi stroked him and said, 'This is my pheasant boy.' Undoing his clothes to look beneath his armpit, there were indeed three pheasant down-feathers. At seven years old he was made to enter the mountains and leave home; at sixteen his head was shaved. Because he had down beneath his armpits, he was named Tanyi. At first he went to Mount Lu to rely on Dharma Master Yuan, and later went to Guanzhong to see Kumārajīva. Afterward he traveled east to Kuaiji and entered Mount Qinwang, reciting the Lotus Sūtra for more than twelve years. A woman dressed in colorful clothes, carrying a bamboo basket containing a white pig and two stalks of garlic, came before the Master and said, 'I entered the mountains to pick vetch, but the sun is already setting. With jackals and wolves blocking the way, there is no way for me to survive returning home. I make bold to entrust myself to you for a night’s lodging.' The Master firmly refused her, but the woman wept and cried out ceaselessly. He then allowed her to stay on a straw bed. In the middle of the night she wailed with stomach pain and told the Master to massage her. The Master then wrapped his tin staff in cloth and massaged her from a distance. The next morning, the woman used her colorful clothes to transform into auspicious clouds, the pig turned into a white elephant, and the garlic transformed into a pair of lotuses, rising into the void. She said to the Master, 'I am Samantabhadra Bodhisattva. Because you will soon join my retinue, I came specially to test you. Seeing your mind, it is like the moon in the water, impossible to defile.' Soon afterward, flowers rained from the sky and the earth completely trembled; none among the local villagers who saw and heard this failed to praise him. That day, the Grand Protector Meng Yi, just as he rose in the morning to attend to business, suddenly saw auspicious clouds to the south with rays of light shooting onto his courtyard, subtly accompanied by the sounds of metal, stone, strings, and bamboo pipes. Inquiring, he learned of Samantabhadra’s manifestation. He then reported the Master’s noble conduct to the imperial court. An imperial edict ordered the construction of Fahua Monastery (now Tianyi Monastery). After the Master passed away, his lacquered true body was kept in the mountain. (When Emperor Wuzong of the Tang abolished the Dharma, the statue was hidden inside a tree south of the monastery. King Wusu of Wuyue posthumously titled him Great Master Feiyun.) > Also, the monk Fazhuang was a disciple of Dharma Master Yuan; reciting the Lotus Sūtra was his regular practice. Neighbors at night saw the appearance of armed guards escorting his room; both clergy and laity who heard about this respected him. > Also, the monk Tansui stayed at Baima Monastery in Heyin; he daily recited the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Sūtra and was also thoroughly versed in lecturing on it. At night he dreamed of a man knocking on the door, inviting the Dharma Master to lecture on the sūtra for ninety days. Sui did not consent, but when he firmly begged, he went. Suddenly he saw himself in the shrine of the White Horse Embankment spirit; one of his disciples was also present. From then on he went secretly every day. One morning, monks from the monastery passing below the shrine heard the sound of lecturing and saw two high seats arranged opposite each other, filled with a wonderful fragrance. When the summer retreat ended, the spirit offered a white horse, five white sheep, and fifty bolts of silk to serve as lecture fees. The Master immediately recited the dhāraṇī-aspiration and accepted them. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 36.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.36.77) - [Next: 36.79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.36.79) - [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.36.78) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.36.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.36.78) · Pramāṇa