[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) › 41.45 # 佛祖統紀 41.45 佛祖統紀 41.45 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [41.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.41.45) 九年。百丈懷海禪師亡。師得法於馬祖。自少林以來多居律寺說法。師始創禪居稱。長老上堂升座。主賓問酬激揚宗要。學者依臘次入僧堂。設長連床施椸（音移）架挂搭道具置十務寮舍以營眾事。後世從而廣之名禪院清規○法師智𧦬（音辯）多所著述。而聽徒絕少。因棄講居衡岳寺。一日有耆宿至閱師所著曰。汝所述頗符佛意而闕人緣。可辨食施飛走（辨見周禮辦俗）却後二十年眾當自集。𧦬遂鬻衣易米。日炊飯散郊外。感群烏來集。𧦬祝之曰。食吾飯者願為法侶。後二十年往鄴城開講。座下千眾皆年少。 > In the ninth year, Chan Master Baizhang Huaihai passed away. The Master obtained the Dharma from Mazu. Since Shaolin, \[Chan masters\] mostly dwelt in Vinaya monasteries to preach the Dharma; the Master first established Chan dwellings, named them, had the senior monk ascend the hall and take the high seat, and host and guest engaged in questions and answers to stimulate and elucidate the essentials of the school. Students entered the Saṃgha hall according to their ordination seniority; he set up continuous platforms, provided clothes racks for hanging requisites, and established offices for the ten administrative duties to manage community affairs. Later generations followed and expanded them, calling them the Pure Regulations of the Chan Monastery. / Dharma Master Zhibian wrote many works, but his audience was extremely sparse. Consequently, he gave up lecturing and dwelt at Hengyue Temple. One day, a senior elder arrived, examined the Master's writings, and said, "What you have written accords well with the Buddha's intent, but you lack affinities with people. You should prepare food to give to birds and beasts; (the character bian is seen in the Rites of Zhou, ban in popular usage) twenty years from now, an assembly will naturally gather." Zhibian thereupon sold his robes to buy rice, and daily cooked rice and scattered it in the outskirts, drawing flocks of crows to gather. Zhibian prayed over them, saying, "May those who eat my food become my companions in the Dharma!" Twenty years later, he went to Yecheng to give lectures, and the thousand people beneath his seat were all youths. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 41.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.41.44) - [Next: 41.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.41.46) - [Up: 41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.41) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035~en-mt.41.45) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.41.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.41.45) · Pramāṇa