佛祖歷代通載 14.16

14.16

（十）　是年大廣智三藏不空示疾。誡門人曰。普賢行願出無邊法門。汝等勤而行之。宜觀菩提心本尊大印直詮阿字。了法無生證大覺身。又命弟子趙遷執筆。授所撰涅槃軌範以貽後世。使準此送終。以表辭帝。詔遣內使賜。湯藥勞問。就加開府儀同三司肅國公食邑三千戶。辭讓數四不允。不空歎曰。吾以法濟世。不意垂死濫污封爵。乃以先師金剛智所付法物。因中使李憲誠進之。遂沐浴更衣。吉祥安臥而寂。闍維頂骨不壞。中含舍利光彩奪目。御史嚴郢撰紀德碑。太常徐浩書之于石。其辭曰。

(10) In this year, the Great Broad Wisdom Tripiṭaka Master Amoghavajra showed illness. He admonished his disciples, saying: "The vow and conduct of Samantabhadra give rise to boundless Dharma gates. You must practice them diligently. You should contemplate the bodhicitta, the great mudrā of the yidam, directly explicating the syllable A, understanding that phenomena are without birth, and realizing the body of great awakening." He also ordered his disciple Zhao Qian to take up the brush and dictate the *Norms for the Parinirvāṇa* that he had composed to leave for future generations, directing that they should follow this for his funeral arrangements. He submitted a memorial to take leave of the Emperor. The Emperor issued an edict dispatching an inner emissary to bestow decoctions and medicines and to convey solicitous inquiries, and moreover conferred upon him the titles of Opening Office Equal in Dignity to the Three Preceptors (Kaifu yitong sansi), Duke of the State of Su, with a fiefdom of three thousand households. He declined several times, but was refused. Amoghavajra sighed and said, "I have used the Dharma to deliver the world; I did not expect that when on the verge of death I would falsely taint myself with ranks and titles." Thereupon, he presented the Dharma implements transmitted by his late master Vajrabodhi to the palace via the court eunuch Li Xiancheng. He then bathed, changed his robes, lay down peacefully in the auspicious posture, and passed away. After the cremation (jhāpitam), his cranial bone remained indestructible, containing within it brightly dazzling relics (śarīra). Censor Yan Ying composed the monument recording his virtue, and Chief Minister of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices Xu Hao inscribed it on stone. Its text reads: