[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) › 40.21 # 佛祖統紀 40.21 佛祖統紀 40.21 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [40.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.40.21) 八年。北天竺不空三藏。循南海至京師。於慈恩寺傳瑜伽大法於金剛智○五月京師人多疫病。醫王韋老師施藥以救。無不瘥。師每存心發願。人覩之者病為。上聞之召愈見禮。為藥王菩薩。老師者。疏勒國人。西域常衣毳袍腰懸數百胡盧。頂紗巾持黎杖。一黑犬同行。自云已五百年。堯舜殷湯周秦漢唐。凡七度化身來救貧病。其犬一日化為黑龍。背負老師冲天而去。 > In the eighth year, Tripiṭaka Master Amoghavajra of Northern India arrived at the capital via the South Sea, and at Ci'en Monastery was transmitted the Great Yoga Dharma by Vajrabodhi. In the fifth month, many people in the capital suffered from pestilence. The King of Physicians, Old Master Wei, distributed medicine to rescue them, and none failed to recover. The master constantly harbored the aspiration in his mind that anyone who saw him would have their illness cured. When the Emperor heard of this, he summoned him to an audience, treated him with ritual courtesy, and regarded him as the Bodhisattva Bhaiṣajyarāja. The Old Master was a man of the state of Kashgar in the Western Regions; he constantly wore a coarse wool robe, hung several hundred gourds from his waist, wore a gauze headscarf, and held a goosefoot staff, with a black dog accompanying him. He said of himself that he had lived for five hundred years, across Yao, Shun, Tang of Yin, Zhou, Qin, Han, and Tang, having transformed his body seven times to come rescue the poor and sick. One day, his dog transformed into a black dragon, carried the Old Master on its back, and shot up into the sky, departing. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 40.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.40.20) - [Next: 40.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.40.22) - [Up: 40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.40) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035~en-mt.40.21) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.40.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.40.21) · Pramāṇa