[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) › 42.36 # 佛祖統紀 42.36 佛祖統紀 42.36 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [42.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.42.36) 五年。勅天下州郡國忌行香。不得携酒肉入寺○召京兆薦福寺弘辨入見。上問曰。何為頓見何名漸修。對曰頓明自性與佛同儔。然有無始染習故假漸修對治。令順性起用。如人喫飯不因一口便飽。帝說。賜號圓智禪師○六月京城進士孫樵上書言。百姓男耕女織不自溫飽。而群僧安坐華屋美食有餘。率以十戶不能養一僧。武宗憤其然。髮二十七萬僧。則天下二百七十萬人。始得蘇息。陛下縱不能如武宗除積弊。柰何興之於已廢之後乎。願詔僧未復者勿復。寺未修者勿修。帝怒不納○九月婺州女子。曾志願開雙林大士塔。見頂足連環齒牙不壞。迎出塔供養四十九日。復藏於塔。 > In the fifth year, an imperial decree ordered that during national days of mourning when offering incense throughout the prefectures and commanderies of the realm, alcohol and meat must not be carried into monasteries. Hongbian of Jianfu Monastery in the capital was summoned to an audience. The Emperor asked, 'What is sudden seeing? What is called gradual cultivation?' He answered, 'Suddenly understanding one's own nature makes one a peer of the Buddha. Yet because there are beginningless defiling habits, one relies on gradual cultivation as an antidote to cause one to initiate functioning in accord with one's nature. It is like a person eating: one does not become full from a single mouthful.' The Emperor was pleased, and bestowed on him the title Chan Master Yuanzhi. In the sixth month, the capital scholar Sun Qiao submitted a memorial, saying, 'The common men plow and the women weave, yet cannot keep themselves warm and fed, whereas the hordes of monks sit peacefully in ornate halls with an abundance of fine food. On average, ten households cannot support one monk. Emperor Wuzong was indignant at this and returned 270,000 monks to lay life; only then could the 2.7 million people of the empire obtain relief. Even if Your Majesty cannot eliminate accumulated abuses as Wuzong did, how can you revive them after they have already been abandoned? I request that an edict be issued: those monks who have not yet been restored should not be restored, and those monasteries that have not yet been repaired should not be repaired.' The Emperor was angered and did not accept it. In the ninth month, a woman of Wuzhou named Zeng Zhiyuan opened the stūpa of the Great Being of Shuanglin, finding that the joints from the skull to the feet were linked like a chain, and his teeth were intact. She welcomed \[the relics\] out of the stūpa, made offerings for forty-nine days, and placed them back inside the stūpa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 42.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.42.35) - [Next: 42.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.42.37) - [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.42.36) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.42.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.42.36) · Pramāṇa