[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) › 45.5 # 佛祖統紀 45.5 佛祖統紀 45.5 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [45.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.45.5) 二年。詔賜天台教文入藏。及賜白金百兩。飯靈山千眾。慈雲撰教藏隨函目錄。述諸部著作大義○四明名儒衛開遊學至洛陽。遇道人李士寧於逆旅。謂開曰君鄉城戒香有瘂女者。過去維衛佛也。若歸可往禮拜。問其狀。則曰。縮臂掃地者是也。開既歸亟往寺訪之。一老尼曰。聖姑坐化年餘矣。因示以畫像。炷香作禮。自以不覩尊容為之愧恨。明年過錢唐客書吏陳式家。忽見小兒十數擁一尼童入門。譁傳云。瘂女瘂女。開方驚顧。遽索紙書偈曰。大地山河是阿誰。了無一法可思惟。夜來處處鳴鐘鼓。敲破髑髏人不知。復於偈後書無去來。開前禮足。略述戒香得瞻遺像之意。復書偈云。須彌山上擺鐸。大洋海底搖鈴。若問瘂女姓字。秖此便是真名。出門竟去。追問小兒。瘂女何人。兒曰。維衛佛也。問兒何人。曰問取瘂女。忽俱不見。 > The second year \[1024\]. An edict granted the admission of the Tiantai doctrinal texts into the canon, bestowed one hundred ounces of silver, and provided a vegetarian feast for a thousand persons at Ling Shan. Ciyun composed the \*Jiaocang suihan mulu\* (Case-by-Case Catalogue of the Doctrinal Canon), explaining the main purports of the various works. ○ The celebrated Siming scholar Wei Kai traveled to Luoyang for study. He met the Daoist practitioner Li Shining at an inn, who said to Kai: "In your home prefecture, at the Jiexiang \[nunnery\], there is a mute girl who is the ancient Buddha Vipaśyin. If you return, you should go pay homage to her." When asked what she looked like, he replied: "The one sweeping the ground with a withered arm is she." When Kai returned, he hurriedly went to the nunnery to look for her. An old nun said: "The holy maid passed away seated over a year ago." She then showed him her portrait. He lit incense and paid homage, feeling ashamed and regretful that he had not seen her venerable countenance. The following year, while passing through Qiantang as a guest at the home of the clerk Chen Shi, he suddenly saw over ten small children surrounding a young nun entering the gate, noisily shouting: "Mute girl! Mute girl!" Kai was startled and turned to look; she promptly demanded paper and wrote a gāthā: "Whose are the great earth, the mountains, and rivers? / There is not a single phenomenon that can be conceived. / In the night, bells and drums sound everywhere; / They smash the skull, yet people know it not." Behind the gāthā she further wrote: "Neither coming nor going." Kai stepped forward and bowed at her feet, briefly relating his intention to venerate her surviving portrait at Jiexiang. She again wrote a gāthā: "Swinging a handbell atop Mount Sumeru; / Shaking a bell at the bottom of the great ocean. / If you ask the mute girl's family and personal name: / Just this is her true name." She went out the door and departed. Kai pursued the children and asked: "Who is the mute girl?" The children said: "She is Buddha Vipaśyin." When he asked who the children were, they said: "Ask the mute girl!" Suddenly they all disappeared. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 45.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.45.4) - [Next: 45.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.45.6) - [Up: 45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.45) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035~en-mt.45.5) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.45.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.45.5) · Pramāṇa