[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) › 5.75 # 佛祖歷代通載 5.75 佛祖歷代通載 5.75 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [5.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.5.75) （十四）　第二十三祖鶴勒那者（勒那梵語。鶴即華言。以尊者出世常感群鶴戀慕故名）月氏國人也。姓婆羅門。父千勝。母金光。以無子故禱于七佛金幢。即夢須彌山頂一神童持金環云我來也。覺而有孕。年七歲遊行聚落。覩民間淫祀。乃入廟叱之曰。汝妄興禍福幻惑於人。歲費牲牢傷害斯甚。言訖廟貌忽然而壞。由是鄉黨謂之聖子。年二十二出家。三十遇摩拏羅尊者付法眼藏。行化至中印度。彼國王名無畏海。崇信佛道。尊者為說正法次。王忽見二人緋素服拜尊者。王問曰。此何人也。師曰。此是日月天子。吾昔曾為說法。故來禮耳。良久不見。唯聞異香。王曰。日月國土總有多少。尊者曰。千釋迦佛所化世界。各有迷盧日月。我若廣說即不能盡。王聞忻然。時尊者演無上道度有緣眾。以上足龍子早夭。有兄師子。博通彊記。事婆羅門。厥師既逝弟復云亡。乃歸依于尊者。而問曰。我欲求道。當何用心。尊者曰。汝欲求道無所用心。曰既無用心誰作佛事。尊者曰。汝若有用即非功德。汝若無作即是佛事。經云。我所作功德而無我所故。師子聞是言已。即入佛惠。時尊者忽指東北問云。是何氣象。師子曰。我見氣如白虹貫乎天地。復有黑氣五道橫亘其中。尊者曰。其兆云何。曰莫可知矣。尊者曰。吾滅後五十年。此天竺國當有難起嬰在汝身。吾將滅矣。今以法眼付囑於汝。善自護持。乃說偈曰。認得心性時。可說不思議。了了無可得。得時不說知。師子比丘聞偈欣愜。然未曉將罹何難。尊者乃密示之。言訖現十八變而歸寂。闍維畢分舍利各欲興塔。尊者復現空中而說偈曰。一法一切法一切一法攝。吾身非有無。何分一切塔。大眾聞偈遂不復分。就馱都之場而建塔焉。即後漢獻帝二十年己丑歲也。 > (14) The Twenty-Third Patriarch, Haklenayaśas (Lena is Sanskrit; Hak \[crane\] is the Chinese word, so named because when the Venerable One appeared in the world, flocks of cranes were constantly moved to affection and longing for him), was a native of the Yuezhi kingdom. His family name was Brahmin. His father was Qiansheng and his mother was Jinguang. Because they had no son, they prayed to the Golden Banner of the Seven Buddhas, and she immediately dreamed of a divine youth atop Mount Sumeru holding a golden ring, who said, 'I have come.' When she awoke, she was pregnant. At the age of seven, while traveling among villages, he saw the licentious sacrifices of the common people. He entered the shrine and rebuked them, saying, 'You falsely provoke misfortune and fortune, deluding and bewitching people; you waste sacrificial cattle every year, and the harm is severe.' When he finished speaking, the shrine suddenly collapsed. Because of this, his village called him the Holy Child. At the age of twenty-two, he left the household (pravrajyā). At thirty, he met the Venerable Manorhita, who transmitted the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye to him. In his travels converting people, he reached Central India. The king of that country was named Fearless Ocean (Abhayamati), and he reverently believed in the Buddha's path. While the Venerable One was expounding the correct Dharma for him, the king suddenly saw two persons in crimson and white garments bowing to the Venerable One. The king asked, 'Who are these people?' The Master said, 'These are the Devas of the Sun and Moon. I preached the Dharma to them in the past, so they have come to pay homage.' After a short while, they disappeared, and only a rare fragrance was smelled. The king said, 'How many sun and moon realms are there in total?' The Venerable One said, 'In the worlds converted by a thousand Śākyamuni Buddhas, each has its Sumeru and sun and moon; if I were to explain it extensively, I could never finish.' Hearing this, the king was delighted. At that time, the Venerable One expounded the supreme Dao to deliver those with whom he had affinity. Because his senior disciple Longzi died young, he had an elder brother, Siṃha, who was widely learned, had a strong memory, and served as a Brahmin. When his teacher died and his younger brother also passed away, he took refuge in the Venerable One and asked, 'I wish to seek the Dao; how should I apply my mind?' The Venerable One said, 'If you wish to seek the Dao, there is nowhere to apply your mind.' He asked, 'If there is no application of mind, who performs the Buddha's work?' The Venerable One said, 'If you have an application, then it is not merit. If you have no doing, that itself is the Buddha's work. The scripture says: "The merit that I perform is devoid of possessiveness."' Having heard these words, Siṃha immediately entered the Buddha's wisdom. Then the Venerable One suddenly pointed to the northeast and asked, 'What kind of omen is that?' Siṃha said, 'I see an aura like a white rainbow piercing heaven and earth, and there are also five lines of black vapor running horizontally through it.' The Venerable One said, 'What does it presage?' He replied, 'It cannot be known.' The Venerable One said, 'Fifty years after my nirvāṇa, a disaster shall arise in this country of Tianzhu that will fall upon your person. I am about to pass into extinction; I now entrust the Dharma Eye to you; maintain and protect it well.' Then he spoke a verse: 'When you recognize the mind-nature, / It can be called inconceivable. / Clearly, there is nothing to be attained; / When attained, one does not speak of knowing.' The bhikṣu Siṃha was delighted upon hearing the verse, yet he did not understand what calamity he would suffer. The Venerable One then secretly revealed it to him. Having spoken, he manifested eighteen transformations and entered quiescence. When the cremation (jhāpita) was complete, the relics were divided, and each person wished to erect a stupa. The Venerable One reappeared in the air and spoke a verse: 'One Dharma is all dharmas; / All are subsumed by the one Dharma. / My body is neither existent nor non-existent; / Why divide it into all these stupas?' Hearing the verse, the great assembly did not divide them further, and built a stupa at the site of the dhātu (relics). This was the twentieth year, the jichou year \[209 CE\], of Emperor Xian of the Later Han. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 5.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.5.74) - [Next: 5.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.5.76) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.5) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036~en-mt.5.75) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (5) - [宗鏡錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.97.32) — Classical Chinese - [景德傳燈錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.2.32) — Classical Chinese - [釋氏稽古略](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.1.531) — Classical Chinese - [傳法正宗記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2078.4.17) — Classical Chinese - [傳法正宗定祖圖](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2079.1.50) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.5.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.5.75) · Pramāṇa