佛祖歷代通載 3.78

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（三十　甲子丙寅　三六）　第八祖佛陀難提者。迦摩羅國人也。姓瞿曇氏。頂有肉髻。辨捷無礙。初遇婆須密尊者出家受教。既而領徒。行化至提迦國城毘舍羅家。見其舍有白光上騰。謂徒眾曰。此家聖人口無言說。真大乘器。不行四衢知觸穢耳。言訖長者出致禮問。何所須祖曰。我求侍者。曰我有一子。名伏祖馱密多。年已五十口未曾言足未曾履。曰。如汝所說真吾弟子。祖既見之。遽起禮拜而說偈曰。父母非我親。誰是最親者。諸佛非我道。誰是最道者。祖以偈答曰。汝言與心親。父母非可比。汝行與道合諸佛心即是。外求有相佛。與汝不相似。欲識汝本心。非合亦非離。伏馱密多聞祖妙偈。便行七步。祖曰。此子昔曾值佛悲願廣大。慮父母愛情難捨。故不言不履耳。時長者遂捨令出家。祖尋授具戒。復告之曰。我今以如來正法眼藏傳囑於汝。勿令斷絕。乃說偈曰。虛空無內外。心法亦如此。若了虛空故。是達真如理。密多承師傳囑。以偈讚曰。我師禪祖中。當得為第八。法化眾無量。悉獲阿羅漢。爾時尊者佛陀難提。即現神變。却復本坐。儼然寂滅。眾興寶塔葬其全身。即景王十年丙寅歲也。

(30. Jiazi, Bingyin; 36) The eighth patriarch, Buddhanandi, was a native of the country of Kāmala, of the Gautama clan. He had a fleshy usṇīṣa on his crown, and his eloquence was swift and unimpeded. He initially met the Venerable Vasumitra, left home, and received instruction. Later he led disciples, traveling and teaching, until he reached the house of Vaiśāla in the city of Dighe. Seeing a white light rising above the residence, he said to his assembly of disciples, "The holy person in this house has no speech from his mouth; he is truly a vessel of the Great Vehicle. He does not walk the crossroads because he knows they encounter defilement." When he finished speaking, the elder came out, offered homage, and asked, "What do you require?" The patriarch said, "I seek an attendant." [The elder] said, "I have a son named Buddhamitra; he is already fifty years old, but his mouth has never spoken, and his feet have never walked." [The patriarch] said, "As you have said, he is truly my disciple." When the patriarch saw him, [the son] abruptly stood up, bowed in homage, and spoke a gāthā, saying: "Father and mother are not my kin; / who is the most intimate kin? / The Buddhas are not my Way; / what is the supreme Way?" The patriarch answered with a gāthā, saying: "Your words are intimate with mind; / father and mother are beyond compare. / Your practice unites with the Way; / the Buddhas' mind is just this. / To seek a Buddha with marks outside / does not resemble you. / If you wish to know your original mind, / it is neither joined nor separate." Having heard the patriarch's wondrous gāthā, Buddhamitra immediately walked seven steps. The patriarch said, "This child met a Buddha in the past and has vast compassionate vows; fearing the affection and clinging of father and mother would be hard to abandon, he neither spoke nor walked." At that time, the elder renounced him and let him leave home; the patriarch soon conferred the complete precepts on him and further addressed him, saying, "I now transmit and entrust to you the Tathāgata's treasury of the eye of the correct Dharma; do not let it be severed." He then spoke a gāthā, saying: "Empty space has neither inside nor outside; / the mind Dharma is also like this. / If you realize empty space, / you reach the principle of True Thusness." Buddhamitra received the master's transmission and entrustment, praising him with a gāthā: "My master among the Chan patriarchs / is entitled to be the eighth. / He has transformed countless beings through Dharma, / all obtaining arhatship." At that time, the Venerable Buddhanandi manifested divine transformations, returned to his original seat, and entered serene quiescence with dignity. The assembly erected a jeweled stūpa to inter his whole body. This was the tenth year of King Jing, the bingyin year.