佛祖歷代通載 21.80

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（十）　大元帝師癹思八是年示寂。翰林學士王磐等奉勅述行狀曰。皇天之下一人之上開教宣文輔治大聖至德普覺真智佑國如意大寶法王西天佛子大元帝師班彌怛拔思癹帝師。乃土波國人也。生時諸種瑞應具詳家譜。初土波有國師禪怛囉乞答。具大威神累葉相傳。其國王世師尊之。凡十七代而至薩師加哇。即師之伯父也。廼禮伯父為師。祕密伽陀一二千言。過目成誦。七歲演法。辯博縱橫。猶不自足。復遍咨名宿。句玄索隱。盡通三藏。癸丑師年十五。世祖皇帝龍德淵潛師知真命有歸。馳驛徑詣王府。世祖宮闈東宮皆秉受戒法特加尊禮。戊午師二十歲釋道訂正化胡經。憲宗皇帝詔師剖析是非。道不能答。自棄其學。上大悅。庚申師年二十二歲。世祖皇帝登極建元中統。尊為國師。授以玉印。任中原法主。統天下教門。辭帝西歸。未朞月召還。庚午師年三十一歲。時至元七年。詔制大元國字。師獨運摹畫作成。稱旨即頒行。朝省郡縣遵用。迄為一代典章。升號帝師大寶法王。更賜王印統領諸國釋教。旋又西歸。甲戌師年三十六歲。時至元十一年。皇上專使召之歲抄抵京。王公宰輔士庶離城一舍。結大香壇設大淨供。香華幢蓋大樂仙音。羅拜迎之。所經衢陌皆結五綵翼其兩傍。萬眾瞻禮若一佛出世。時則天兵飛渡長江。竟成一統。雖主聖臣賢所致。亦師陰相之力也。為真金皇太子說器世界等彰所知論。尋又力辭西歸。皇上堅留之不可。庚辰師年四十二歲。時至元十七年十一月二十二日示寂。上聞不勝震悼。追懷舊德。連建大宰堵波于京師。寶藏真身舍利輪奐金碧無儔。

(10) The Imperial Preceptor of the Great Yuan, 'Phags-pa, manifested nirvirṇa in this year. Hanlin Academician Wang Pan and others were commissioned to compose his conduct record, which reads: "Beneath august Heaven, above the single person; Founder of the Teachings, Propagator of Culture, Auxiliary to Governance, Great Sage, of Supreme Virtue, Universally Enlightened, True Wisdom, Protector of the Realm, Wish-Fulfilling Great Treasure Dharma King, Son of the Buddha from the Western Heavens, Imperial Preceptor of the Great Yuan, Pandita 'Phags-pa the Imperial Preceptor, was a native of the land of Tubo. Various auspicious signs at his birth are recorded in detail in his family genealogy. Originally, in Tubo there was the State Preceptor Candra-rakṣita, who possessed great spiritual powers handed down for generations. The kings of that country honored him as a teacher from generation to generation, for seventeen generations down to Sa-skya-ba, who was the Master's paternal uncle. He then took his paternal uncle as his teacher. With esoteric gāthās of one or two thousand words, he could recite them upon a single glance. At the age of seven, he expounded the Dharma, with sweeping and expansive debate, yet he still felt unsatisfied. He again consulted renowned masters everywhere, exploring the mysteries and searching the concealed, thoroughly mastering the Tripiṭaka. In the guichou year, when the Master was fifteen years old, Emperor Shizu's dragon virtue was latent in the depths; the Master knew that the true mandate was settled, and he went directly by courier station to the royal manor. Emperor Shizu's inner palace and the Eastern Palace all received the precept rules and paid him special honor and reverence. In the wuwu year, when the Master was twenty, Buddhists and Daoists corrected the Huahu jing. Emperor Xianzong decreed the Master to analyze the right and wrong; the Daoists could not reply and abandoned their own learning. The Emperor was greatly pleased. In the gengshen year, when the Master was twenty-two years old, Emperor Shizu ascended the throne and established the Zhongtong era, honoring him as State Preceptor, bestowing a jade seal, appointing him as the Dharma Lord of the Central Plains, and placing him in charge of all religious sects under heaven. He took leave of the Emperor to return west, but was recalled before a year had passed. In the gengwu year, when the Master was thirty-one years old, in the seventh year of Zhiyuan, an edict was issued to create a script for the Great Yuan state. The Master alone designed and created it; it met the imperial approval and was promptly promulgated, observed and used by the court, ministries, commanderies, and counties, becoming a standard for an entire era. He was promoted to the title of Imperial Preceptor, Great Treasure Dharma King, and was further granted a royal seal to lead the Buddhist teachings of all countries. Soon after, he returned west again. In the jiaxu year, when the Master was thirty-six years old, in the eleventh year of Zhiyuan, the Emperor dispatched a special envoy to summon him, and he arrived at the capital at the end of the year. Princes, dukes, grand chancellors, ministers, and commoners went out thirty li from the city to erect a great incense altar and set up grand pure offerings. With fragrant flowers, banners, parasols, and divine celestial music, they bowed in array to welcome him. Along the streets he passed, five-colored silks were tied along both sides. Tens of thousands of people gazed upon and paid homage to him as if a Buddha had appeared in the world. At that time, the heavenly troops crossed the Yangzi River like flight, finally completing the unification; although this was brought about by a sage ruler and worthy ministers, it was also due to the Master's hidden assistance. He expounded the Zhang suozhi lun on the bhājana-loka and other subjects for Crown Prince Zhenjin. Soon he again firmly requested leave to return west; the Emperor tried to detain him, but could not. In the gengchen year, when the Master was forty-two years old, on the twenty-second day of the eleventh month of the seventeenth year of Zhiyuan, he manifested nirvirṇa. Hearing of this, the Emperor was overwhelmed with shock and grief. Cherishing his past virtues, he successively built a grand cetiya stupa in the capital to enshrine his true physical relics, magnificent in gold and lapis beyond compare."