[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) › [釋氏稽古略](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037) › 1.401 # 釋氏稽古略 1.401 釋氏稽古略 1.401 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.401](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.1.401) 十二祖馬鳴大士波羅奈國人也。亦名功勝。蓋以其夙有功德。又以有作無作諸功德最為殊勝故名焉。既受法已。闡揚於華氏國。有魔名迦毘摩羅。眷屬三千。向祖作諸神變。祖曰。汝盡神力化性海得乎。魔曰。何謂性海。祖曰。性海者。山河大地皆依建立三昧。六通由茲發現迦毘摩羅聞言。愈加問難。知祖理勝。遂發信心。與徒三千俱求剃度。祖乃召五百應真。與授具戒。大士因之乃大造論議。尋告之曰。如來大法眼藏。今當付汝。汝聽偈言。隱顯即本法。明暗元不二。今付悟了法。非取亦非離。付囑已。即入龍奮迅三昧。挺身空中。如日輪相。然後復本座示寂。四眾以真體閟之龍龕。當此周顯王之世也（正宗記）。 > The Twelfth Patriarch, the Mahāsattva Aśvaghoṣa, was a native of Vārāṇasī. He was also named Puṇyadhvaja (Gongsheng, 'Superior Merit'). This was because he possessed past merit, and also because all conditioned and unconditioned merits \[in him\] were most uniquely superior; hence he was so named. Having received the Dharma, he propagated it in the country of Pāṭaliputra. There was a demon named Kapimala, who had a retinue of three thousand. He displayed various supernatural transformations toward the Patriarch. The Patriarch said, 'Can you exhaust your supernatural powers to transform the ocean of true nature?' The demon said, 'What is meant by the ocean of true nature?' The Patriarch said, 'The ocean of true nature is that upon which the mountains, rivers, and great earth are all established; it is from this that samādhi and the six supernatural knowledges appear.' When Kapimala heard these words, he raised further difficult questions. Knowing that the Patriarch's principle was superior, he then gave rise to faith and, together with his three thousand disciples, sought tonsure. The Patriarch then summoned five hundred arhats to confer the full precepts upon them. Thereupon the Mahāsattva composed numerous treatises and debates. Soon he told him, 'The Tathāgata's treasury of the Great Dharma Eye is now to be transmitted to you. Listen to my verse: "Concealment and manifestation are the fundamental Dharma; / Light and darkness are originally not two. / Now I transmit to you the Dharma of awakening: / It is neither grasping nor abandoning."' Having transmitted it, he entered the Dragon-exertion samādhi, raised his body into the air in the form of a sun-disc, and then returned to his original seat and manifested nirvāṇa. The four assemblies enclosed his true body in a dragon shrine. This corresponded to the era of King Xian of Zhou (Zhengzong ji). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.400](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.1.400) - [Next: 1.402](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.1.402) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037~en-mt.1.401) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (3) - [佛祖歷代通載](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.4.15) — Classical Chinese - [景德傳燈錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.1.115) — Classical Chinese - [傳法正宗記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2078.3.10) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.1.401](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.1.401) · Pramāṇa