[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) › 42.28 # 佛祖統紀 42.28 佛祖統紀 42.28 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [42.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.42.28) 大中元年三月。勅會昌季年并省寺院。釐革過當。其靈山聖境。如有宿舊名僧能修創者。所司不得禁止○李德裕專權日久。帝惡之貶潮州司馬。頃之再貶崖州司戶。惡疾而卒。初是有僧通宿世事。謂德裕曰。公當萬里南行平生食萬羊。今九千五百矣。羊未盡猶有還日。德裕曰。吾嘗夢行晉山。見山上盡目皆羊。牧人曰。此公平生所食也。後旬日振武節度使李暨饋羊四百。僧曰。萬羊將滿。公其不還。後果卒於朱崖。 > In the third month of the first year of the Dazhong reign, an edict stated that the mergers and closures of temples in the final years of the Huichang era had been excessive in reform; regarding sacred sites on numinous mountains, if there were senior renowned monks able to repair and restore them, the authorities concerned were not to prohibit them. Li Deyu had monopolized power for a long time; the Emperor detested him and demoted him to Marshal of Chaozhou, and shortly thereafter demoted him again to Census Officer of Yazhou, where he died of a virulent illness. Earlier, there was a monk who had insight into past lives, who told Deyu, "Your Excellency will travel ten thousand li to the south. In your lifetime you are destined to eat ten thousand sheep; now you have consumed nine thousand five hundred. Until the sheep are exhausted, there is still a day of return." Deyu said, "I once dreamed of traveling in the Jin Mountains, where as far as the eye could see the mountains were covered with sheep. A shepherd said, 'These are what Your Excellency will consume in your lifetime.'" Ten days later, Li Ji, Military Commissioner of Zhenwu, sent a gift of four hundred sheep. The monk said, "The ten thousand sheep are nearly complete; Your Excellency will likely not return." Later he indeed died in Zhuya. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 42.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.42.27) - [Next: 42.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.42.29) - [Up: 42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.42) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035~en-mt.42.28) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.42.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.42.28) · Pramāṇa