佛祖統紀 5.16

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九祖脇比丘尊者。中印度人。由於昔業在母胎六十年。既生須𩬊俱白。厭惡五欲不樂居家。其父携見密多曰。此子處胎六十年。因號難生。曾遇相者。言是法器。願求出家。受戒之日祥光燭座。感舍利三七顆。便於座上得阿羅漢。精進苦行脇不至席。時號脇比丘。有外道見師手放光明暗中取經。即捨邪歸正獲證道迹。化緣將畢。現十八變便入涅槃。眾取舍利建塔供養（付法藏經）。

The Ninth Patriarch, the Venerable Monk Pārśva, was a man of Central India. Due to past karma, he remained in his mother's womb for sixty years. When he was born, his beard and hair were already white. He abhorred the five desires and took no pleasure in household life. His father took him to see Mitra and said, 'This child remained in the womb for sixty years, and is therefore named Nansheng ("Hard to Bear"). I once met a physiognomist who said he was a vessel of the Dharma. I wish for him to seek ordination.' On the day he received the precepts, an auspicious light illuminated the seat, and twenty-one relics were elicited; right upon his seat, he attained the arhat state. In his diligent ascetic practice, his ribs never touched the mat; hence he was called at the time 'Monk Pārśva' (Ribs). There was a non-Buddhist who saw light radiating from the Master's hand as he retrieved sūtras in the dark; he immediately abandoned the heterodox to return to the correct, and attained realization of the trace of the Way. When his karmic conditions for transforming beings were nearing their end, he manifested eighteen transformations and entered nirvāṇa. The assembly gathered his relics and built a stupa to make offerings to them (from the *Fu fazang jing*).