佛祖歷代通載 4.9

4.9

（戊戌）　第十一祖富那夜奢。華氏國人也。姓瞿曇氏。父寶身。既得法於脇尊者。尋詣波羅奈國。有馬鳴大士。迎而作禮。因問曰。我欲識佛。何者即是。祖曰。汝欲識佛不識者是。曰佛既不識焉知是乎。祖曰。既不識佛焉知不是。曰此是踞義。祖曰。彼是木義。復問。踞義者何。曰與師平出。又問。木義者何。祖曰。汝被我解。馬鳴豁然惺悟。稽首歸依。遂求剃度。祖謂眾曰。此大士者。昔為毘舍離國王。其國有一類人。如馬裸露。王運神力分身為蠶。彼乃得衣。王後復生中印度。馬人感戀悲。鳴因號馬鳴焉。如來記云。吾滅度後六百年。當有賢者馬鳴。於波羅奈國摧伏異道。度人無量。繼吾傳化。今正是時。即告之曰。如來大法眼藏今付於汝。即說偈曰。迷悟如隱顯。明暗不相離。今付隱顯法。非一亦非二。付法已。即現神變湛然圓寂。眾興寶塔以閟全身。即安王十九年戊戌歲也。

(Wu-xu) The Eleventh Patriarch was Puṇyayaśas, a native of Pāṭaliputra of the Gautama clan; his father was Baoshen. Having received the Dharma from the Venerable Pārśva, he soon went to Vārāṇasī. The Mahāsattva Aśvaghoṣa welcomed him and paid homage, asking, "I wish to know the Buddha. What is it?" The Patriarch said, "You wish to know the Buddha: that which does not know is it." [Aśvaghoṣa] said, "Since the Buddha is not known, how can one know it is it?" The Patriarch said, "Since one does not know the Buddha, how can one know it is not?" [Aśvaghoṣa] said, "This is the meaning of a saw." The Patriarch said, "That is the meaning of wood." He further asked, "What is the meaning of a saw?" [The Patriarch] said, "Coming out level with the master." He further asked, "What is the meaning of wood?" The Patriarch said, "You have been sawed apart by me." Aśvaghoṣa was suddenly awakened, bowed his head in refuge, and asked for tonsure. The Patriarch told the assembly: "This Mahāsattva was formerly the king of Vaiśālī. In that kingdom, there was a class of people who went naked like horses; the king exercised his spiritual powers to divide his body into silkworms so that they obtained clothing. The king was later reborn in Central India. The horse-people felt affection and longing, neighing mournfully, hence he was named Aśvaghoṣa ('Horse Neigh'). The Tathāgata prophesied: 'Six hundred years after my parinirvāṇa, there shall be a worthy one named Aśvaghoṣa who, in the kingdom of Vārāṇasī, will subdue heterodox paths, save countless people, and continue my transmission and transformation.' Now is precisely that time." He then told him, "The Tathāgata's treasury of the eye of the correct Dharma is now entrusted to you." He then spoke a verse: / "Delusion and awakening are like hidden and manifest; / Brightness and darkness are not separate from each other. / Now I entrust to you the hidden and manifest Dharma: / It is neither one nor two." Having entrusted the Dharma, he manifested spiritual transformations and entered peaceful parinirvāṇa. The assembly raised a precious stūpa to enshrine his whole body. This was the nineteenth year of King An, the year Wu-xu.