[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) › 9.24 # 佛祖統紀 9.24 佛祖統紀 9.24 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [9.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.9.24) 禪師智越。南陽鄭氏。父與求昏。師極辭以拒即出家。遊方至金陵遇智者。北面受業。五門六妙莫不深達。誦法華經至滿萬部。智者晚歸台嶺付以四眾。二十年間循循善誘。德量寬曠學者歸心。所居之處瓶水自滿。自晉王造寺及登帝位。山中每遣僧使。奉啟致賀。必以師名居首。上虛己加敬。若智者在日無異。每獲嚫施用為功德。未嘗有所畜也。大業十二年十一月二十三日。告眾為別右脇而逝。風悽雲慘地動山頹。天雨異花一境冥晦。 > Chan Master Zhiyue was of the Zheng clan from Nanyang. His father arranged a marriage for him, but the Master firmly refused and immediately left home. Wandering abroad, he arrived in Jinling and met Zhiyi. Facing north, he received instruction from him. There were none among the five gateways and six wondrous doors that he did not master deeply. He recited the Lotus Sūtra up to ten thousand times. When Zhiyi returned to Mount Tiantai in his later years, he entrusted the fourfold assembly to him. For twenty years, he guided them skillfully and patiently; his capacity for virtue was broad and spacious, and students gave their hearts to him. Wherever he dwelled, the water in his pitcher would fill by itself. From the time the Prince of Jin built the monastery until he ascended the imperial throne, whenever the mountain sent a monastic envoy to submit a letter offering congratulations, the Master's name was always placed first. His Majesty humbled himself and showed him increasing reverence, no differently than when Zhiyi was alive. Every time he received alms and offerings, he used them for meritorious deeds and never hoarded anything. On the twenty-third day of the eleventh month in the twelfth year of the Daye era, he bade farewell to the assembly and passed away lying on his right side. The wind became mournful, the clouds grew somber, the earth shook, and the mountains crumbled. The heavens rained down wondrous flowers, and the entire region was plunged into darkness. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 9.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.9.23) - [Next: 9.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.9.25) - [Up: 9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.9) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035~en-mt.9.24) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.9.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2035.9.24) · Pramāṇa