佛祖歷代通載 5.12

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（二　丁巳）　第二十一祖婆脩盤頭者。羅閱城人也。姓毘舍佉。父光蓋。母嚴一。家富而無子。父母禱于佛塔而求嗣焉。一夕母夢吞明暗二珠。覺而有孕。經七日有一羅漢。名賢眾。至其家。光蓋設禮。賢眾端坐受之。嚴一出拜。賢眾辟席云。回禮法身大士。光蓋罔測其由。遂取一寶珠。跪獻賢眾。試其真偽。賢眾即受之。殊無遜謝光蓋不能忍。問曰。我是丈夫。致禮不顧。我妻何德。尊者辟之。賢眾曰。我受禮納珠。貴福汝耳。汝婦懷聖子。生當為世燈慧日。故吾辟之。非重女人也。賢眾又曰。汝婦當生二子。一名婆脩盤頭。則吾所尊者也。二名芻尼（此云野鵲子）昔如來在雪山修道。芻尼巢於頂上。佛既成道。芻尼受報為那提國王。佛記云。汝至第二五百年。生羅閱城毘舍佉家。與聖同胞。今無爽矣。後一月果生二子。尊者婆脩盤頭。年至十五。禮光度羅漢出家。感毘婆訶菩薩與之授戒。行化至那提國。彼王名常自在。有二子。一名摩訶羅。次名摩拏羅。王問尊者曰。羅閱城土風與此同異。尊者曰。彼土曾三佛出世。今王國有二師化導。曰二師者誰。尊者曰。佛記第二五百年有一神力大士出家繼聖。即王之次子摩拏羅是其一也。吾雖德薄敢當其一。王曰。誠如尊者所言。當捨此子作沙門。尊者曰。善哉大王。能遵佛旨。即與受具付法。偈曰。泡幻同無礙。如何不了悟達法在其中。非今亦非古。尊者付法已。踊身高半由旬。屹然而住。四眾仰瞻虔請。復坐跏趺而逝。茶毘得舍利建塔。當後漢安帝十一年丁巳歲也。

(2: dingsi) The twenty-first patriarch, Vasubandhu, was a man of the city of Rājagṛha. His family name was Viśākha; his father was Guanggai (Bright Canopy), and his mother was Yanyi (Strict and One). The family was wealthy but had no sons. The parents prayed at a Buddha stūpa to seek an heir. One night, the mother dreamed that she swallowed two pearls, one bright and one dark; she awoke to find herself pregnant. After seven days, an arhat named Xianzhong (Worthy Assembly) came to their house. Guanggai paid respects, and Xianzhong sat upright and received them. When Yanyi came out to bow, Xianzhong vacated his seat, saying, 'I return the bow to the great being of the Dharmakāya.' Guanggai did not understand the reason for this, so he took a precious pearl and knelt to present it to Xianzhong, testing whether he was genuine or false. Xianzhong at once accepted it with no modesty or gratitude. Guanggai could not bear it and asked, 'I am a man, yet when I paid respects you paid no regard; what virtue does my wife possess that the Venerable One vacated his seat?' Xianzhong said, 'I received the bow and accepted the pearl merely to bring you blessings. Your wife carries a holy child, who when born will be a lamp to the world and a sun of wisdom; therefore, I vacated my seat, not out of esteem for a woman.' Xianzhong further said, 'Your wife will give birth to two sons: the first will be named Vasubandhu, who is the one I revere; the second will be named Chuni (translated here as 'Wild Magpie'). In antiquity, when the Tathāgata cultivated the path on the Snow Mountains, a wild magpie nested upon his crown. After the Buddha attained the path, the wild magpie received the retribution of becoming the king of the country of Nadī. The Buddha prophesied, saying: "In the second five hundred years, you will be born into the Viśākha family in the city of Rājagṛha, sharing the same womb with a sage." Now there is no discrepancy.' A month later, two sons were indeed born. When the Venerable Vasubandhu reached the age of fifteen, he bowed to the arhat Guangdu and left home, inspiring the Bodhisattva Vibhāha to confer the precepts upon him. Traveling to transform beings, he reached the country of Nadī. That king's name was Changzizai (Always Sovereign). He had two sons: the first was named Mahāra, and the second was named Manorhita. The king asked the Venerable One, 'Are the customs of the city of Rājagṛha the same as or different from here?' The Venerable One said, 'In that land, three Buddhas once appeared in the world; now in your kingdom there are two teachers transforming and guiding.' The king said, 'Who are the two teachers?' The Venerable One said, 'The Buddha prophesied that in the second five hundred years there would be a great being of divine powers who would leave home to succeed the sage; your second son, Manorhita, is one of them. Though my virtue is slight, I dare to assume the role of the other.' The king said, 'If it is truly as the Venerable One says, I shall give up this son to become a śramaṇa.' The Venerable One said, 'Splendid, Great King, that you can follow the Buddha's intention.' He then conferred upon him the upasampadā and transmitted the Dharma to him, saying in a gāthā: / Bubbles and illusions are equally unobstructed; / How could one fail to comprehend this? / Attaining the Dharma within them / Is neither of the present nor of the past. / After the Venerable One transmitted the Dharma, he leapt into the air to a height of half a yojana, remaining there erect. The fourfold assembly gazed upward and reverently entreating him, he sat again in the cross-legged posture and passed away. Following his cremation, relics were obtained and a stūpa was erected. This was in the eleventh year of Emperor An of the Later Han, the dingsi year.