[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) › 4.20 # 佛祖歷代通載 4.20 佛祖歷代通載 4.20 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.4.20) （壬辰）　第十三祖迦毘摩羅。華氏國人也。初為外道有徒三千通諸異論。後於馬鳴尊者得法。領徒至西印度。彼有太子名雲自在。仰尊者名請於宮中供養。祖曰。如來有教。沙門不得親近國王大臣權勢之家。太子曰。今我國城之北有大山焉。山中有一石窟。師可禪寂于此否。祖曰諾。即入彼山。行數里逢一大蟒。祖直進不顧。遂盤繞祖身。祖因與受三歸依。蟒聽訖而去。祖將至石窟。復有一老人。素服而出。合掌問訊。祖曰。汝何所止。答曰。我昔嘗為比丘多樂寂靜。有初學比丘數來請益。而我煩於應答起嗔恨想。命終墮為蟒身。住是窟中。今已千載。適遇尊者獲聞戒法。故來謝耳。祖問曰。此山更有何人居止。曰北去十里有大樹蔭。覆五百大龍。其樹王名龍樹。常為龍眾說法。我亦聽受耳。尊者遂與徒眾詣彼龍樹。出迎尊者曰。深山孤寂龍蟒所居。大德至尊何枉神足。祖曰。吾非至尊。來訪賢者。龍樹默念曰。此師得決定性明道眼否。是大聖繼真乘否。祖曰。汝雖心語吾以意知。但辦出家何慮吾之不聖龍樹聞已悔謝。尊者即與度脫及五百龍眾俱受具戒。復告龍樹曰。今以如來大法眼藏付囑於汝。諦聽偈言。非隱非顯法。說是真實際。悟此隱顯法。非愚亦非知。付法已。即現神變化火焚身。龍樹收五色舍利。建塔瘞之。即𧹞王四十六年壬辰歲也。 > (Ren-chen) The Thirteenth Patriarch was Kapimala, a native of Pāṭaliputra. Originally an outsider with three thousand disciples, he was versed in various heterodox treatises. Later he obtained the Dharma under the Venerable Aśvaghoṣa, and led his disciples to Western India. There was a crown prince there named Yunzizai (Meghasvara) who, admiring the Venerable's name, invited him to receive offerings in the palace. The Patriarch said, "The Tathāgata has instructed that śramaṇas must not associate with kings, ministers, and powerful families." The crown prince said, "Now to the north of our royal city there is a great mountain, in which there is a stone cave. Could the master engage in meditation in solitude here?" The Patriarch agreed. He then entered that mountain; after walking several li, he encountered a great python. The Patriarch proceeded straight without glancing back, and it then coiled around the Patriarch's body. The Patriarch then conferred upon it the Three Refuges. Having heard them, the python departed. When the Patriarch was about to reach the stone cave, an old man in plain clothes came out, joined his palms, and inquired after him. The Patriarch said, "Where do you dwell?" He replied, "Formerly I was a bhikṣu who greatly delighted in tranquility. Beginning bhikṣus frequently came to request instruction, but I grew weary of answering them and gave rise to anger; when my life ended, I fell into a python's body, dwelling in this cave, where a thousand years have now passed. Having just met the Venerable and obtained hearing of the preceptual Dharma, I have come to express my gratitude." The Patriarch asked, "Who else resides in this mountain?" He said, "Ten li to the north there is the shade of a great tree covering five hundred great dragons. The king of that tree is named Nāgārjuna, who constantly preaches the Dharma to the dragon assembly; I also listen and receive it." The Venerable then went with his disciples to that Nāgārjuna, who came out to welcome the Venerable, saying, "Deep mountains are solitary and tranquil, the dwelling place of dragons and pythons. Why has the most venerable one of great virtue bent his divine steps?" The Patriarch said, "I am not the most venerable one; I have come to visit a worthy one." Nāgārjuna secretly reflected, "Has this master obtained the definitive nature and clarified the eye of the Way? Is he a great sage continuing the true vehicle?" The Patriarch said, "Although you spoke in your mind, I knew it through my intent. Just attend to your monastic renunciation; why worry whether I am a sage or not?" Having heard this, Nāgārjuna repented and apologized. The Venerable immediately delivered him, and along with the five hundred dragon members he received the full precepts. He then told Nāgārjuna, "Now I entrust to you the Tathāgata's treasury of the eye of the correct Dharma. Listen attentively to the verse: / The Dharma neither hidden nor manifest / Is declared to be the true reality. / Awakening to this hidden and manifest Dharma, / One is neither foolish nor knowing." Having entrusted the Dharma, he manifested spiritual transformations and transformed into fire to incinerate his body. Nāgārjuna gathered five-colored relics and built a stūpa to bury them. 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