釋氏稽古略 1.531

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二十三祖鶴勒那大士　月氏國人也。姓婆羅門。父千勝。母金光。年二十二出家。三十歲遇摩拏羅得法。行化至中印度。為王說法。王欣然歸敬。初大士上足曰龍子。早世。龍子之兄曰師子。依大士得度。一日指東北問眾曰。是何氣象眾不諳。師子曰。我見氣如白虹。復有黑氣五道。橫亘其中。大士曰。吾滅後五十年。北天竺國當有難起。嬰在汝身。吾將滅矣。今將法眼付囑於汝。善自護持。汝往他國。難累汝躬。慎早付授無令斷絕。聽吾偈曰。認得心地時。不說不思議。了了無可得。得時不說知。付法已。大士即騰身太虛作十八變。復其座寂然遷化。四眾闍維將分其舍利務各塔之。大士顯靈降跡而說偈曰。一法一切法。一法一切攝。吾身非有無。何分一切塔。眾即合一浮圖而供養之。當此後漢獻帝之世也（正宗記）。

The Twenty-Third Patriarch, Mahāsattva Haklenayaśas. He was a man from the kingdom of the Yuezhi, of the brāhmaṇa caste. His father was Qian Sheng, and his mother was Jinguang. At the age of twenty-two he went forth, and at thirty he met Manorhita and received the Dharma. Traveling and converting people, he reached Central India and preached the Dharma for the king, who joyfully took refuge and paid reverence. Initially, the mahāsattva's senior disciple was named Longzi, who passed away early. Longzi’s elder brother, named Siṃha, was ordained relying upon the mahāsattva. One day, [the mahāsattva] pointed to the northeast and asked the assembly: “What kind of omen is that?” The assembly did not understand. Siṃha said: “I see a vapor like a white rainbow, with five bands of black vapor crossing through it.” The mahāsattva said: “Fifty years after my extinction, a calamity will arise in North India and fall upon your person. I am about to pass into extinction. I now entrust the Dharma eye to you; protect and uphold it well. When you go to other lands, calamity will burden your person; be careful to transmit it early so as not to let it be severed.” Listen to my verse:

“When the mind-ground is recognized,
Do not speak of the inconceivable.
Clearly there is nothing to be attained;
When attained, do not speak of knowing.”

Having transmitted the Dharma, the mahāsattva immediately leapt into the void and displayed the eighteen transformations, returned to his seat, and quietly passed away. The fourfold assembly cremated him and were about to divide his relics, each wishing to enshrine them in a pagoda. The mahāsattva manifested his spiritual power, descending with his traces, and spoke a verse:

“One phenomenon is all phenomena;
One phenomenon subsumes everything.
My body is neither existent nor non-existent;
Why divide it into all these pagodas?”

The assembly then united them into a single stūpa to make offerings to it. This was during the era of Emperor Xian of the Later Han (Zhengzong ji).