佛祖統紀 5.29

5.29

The twenty-second patriarch, the Venerable Haklenayaśas, was a man of the Yuezhi kingdom. At seven years of age, seeing the residents entering a temple to sacrifice to gods, he immediately rebuked them, saying: 'You falsely invent disasters and blessings to delude worldly people, and squander sacrificial beasts each year, doing immense harm.' The temple and its icons suddenly collapsed. At the age of thirty-eight, he first met Manorhita, who said to him: 'In the past, you had five hundred disciples who, because their merit was meager, were born into the feathered race. Now, drawn by your kindness, they follow you as a flock of cranes.' Haklenayaśas asked: 'By what expedient means can they be liberated?' Manorhita spoke a verse for him: / 'The mind turns according to ten thousand conditions; / Where it turns is truly profound. / Recognizing the nature while following the flow, / There is neither joy nor sorrow.' / Hearing the verse, the flock of cranes flew off calling out. Haklenayaśas traveled to Central India. There was a king named Fearless Ocean (Abhayamati) who invited Haklenayaśas to expound the Dharma. Suddenly, two figures in crimson robes and plain white clothes both arrived to bow, and after a while vanished again. The king asked who they were. The master said: 'They are the devaputras of the sun and moon.' At that time the monk Āryasiṃha came to listen to the Dharma. The master pointed to the northeast and asked: 'What do you make of this vapor you see?' Āryasiṃha said: 'I see a vapor like a white rainbow piercing the sky, and there is also a black vapor traversing it.' The master said: 'Fifty years after my extinction, a calamity will arise in Northern India and fall upon your person.' He then secretly revealed the matter to him, manifested the eighteen transformations, and entered extinction. The assembly gathered his relics and erected a stūpa to make offerings (from the Fu fazang jing).