[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) › [佛祖歷代通載](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036) › 10.37 # 佛祖歷代通載 10.37 佛祖歷代通載 10.37 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [10.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.10.37) （十四）　法師靜藹者。聞詔下慨然曰。食周之粟而忘其事。謂之忠乎。即詣闕奉表求見。武帝許之。及引對極陳毀教禍福報應之事。指證明白。帝為改容。顧業已成。既行之詔不可返。因謝遣之。藹退而泣曰。大教阨塞。吾何忍見之。遂遁入終南山。帝尋欲官之遣衛士求藹。藹聞徙入太一曰。衛士不獲而返。藹以法滅號泣七日夜聲不絕。撰三寶錄二十卷。假設主賓抑揚飛伏。廣羅文義弘贊大乘。并錄見聞事實藏諸岩洞。庶後代之再興耳。尋告弟子曰。吾生無補于世。將事捨身。眾號泣不許。因令侍者出山。藹瀝血書偈一篇。遂坐磐石留一內衣自條其肉布於石上。引腸胃掛于松枝。五臟皆外見。餘筋肉手足頭面咼拆都盡。以刀割心捧之而卒。侍者歸山。猶見捧心而坐。餘骸並無遺血。但見白乳傍流凝於石次。聞者靡不流涕。時年四十有五云。 > (14) When Dharma Master Jing'ai heard that the decree had been issued, he said with deep emotion: “To eat the grain of Zhou and forget its affairs—can that be called loyalty?” He went immediately to the palace, presenting a memorial to request an audience. Emperor Wu granted it. When he was brought in for the audience, he exhaustively expounded upon the matters of calamity, fortune, and karmic retribution from destroying the teaching, pointing to evidence with clear clarity. The Emperor changed his expression on his account, but considering that the deed was already done and an executed edict could not be revoked, he dismissed him with thanks. Ai withdrew, weeping, and said: “The great teaching is obstructed; how can I bear to see it?” He then fled into Mount Zhongnan. Soon after, the Emperor wished to confer official post on him and sent guards to seek Ai. Hearing of this, Ai moved into Taiyi Mountain, and the guards returned without finding him. Because of the Dharma's destruction, Ai wailed and wept for seven days and nights without cessation of voice. He composed the Record of the Three Treasures in twenty fascicles, setting up hypothetical dialogues between host and guest to praise, refute, advance, and retreat, widely gathering textual principles to broadly propagate the Great Vehicle, and recording eyewitness facts to conceal them within rock caves, in the hope that future generations might revive it. Soon after, he told his disciples: “My life is of no benefit to the world; I shall engage in renouncing the body.” The assembly wailed and wept, refusing to permit it. He then ordered his attendant to leave the mountain. Ai wrote a gāthā in his own blood, sat on a boulder, kept only an undergarment, sliced his own flesh, and laid it out upon the stone. He drew out his intestines and stomach, hanging them on pine branches, with all five viscera visible outside. The rest of his flesh, sinews, hands, feet, head, and face were completely carved away. Slicing out his heart with the knife, he held it up and passed away. When the attendant returned to the mountain, he still saw him sitting while holding his heart. The rest of the remains were completely devoid of blood; only white milk was seen flowing aside and congealing on the edge of the rock. None who heard of it failed to shed tears. He was forty-five years old at the time. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 10.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.10.36) - [Next: 10.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.10.38) - [Up: 10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.10) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036~en-mt.10.37) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.10.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.10.37) · Pramāṇa