[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) › 3.134 # 釋氏稽古略 3.134 釋氏稽古略 3.134 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.134](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.134) 金剛智　籍洛陽廣福寺。梵名跋日羅菩提。此云金剛智。天竺南印度摩賴耶國人也。父婆羅門善五明為建支王師。智生數歲。日誦萬言。年十五開悟佛理。遂出家隨師中印度那蘭陀寺學阿毘達磨等。洎登壇法律聽十八部律。又詣西印度學小乘諸論。十餘年全通經律論三藏。聞支那（此東土時事也）佛法崇盛。乃泛舶而來。開元七年達於廣府。次年至京。勅迎舍大慈恩寺廣弘祕密。建曼荼羅法。尋徙薦福寺。大智（道也）氤大慧（一行也）二禪師。不空三藏皆師事之。智所譯經一行多預焉。一行甞稟其壇法儀制。開元二十年八月十五日於洛陽廣福寺命門人曰。白月圓時吾當去矣。遂禮毘盧遮那佛旋遶七匝。退歸本院焚香發願。頂戴梵夾并新譯教法付囑訖。寂然而化。壽七十一。臘五十一。十一月七日葬龍門南伊川之右。弟子不空奏。奉勅諡灌頂國師。勅中書侍郎杜鴻漸撰紀德碑（唐舊史并贊寧僧統僧傳）。 > Vajrabodhi: Registered at Guangfu Monastery in Luoyang. His Sanskrit name was Vajrabodhi; here it is translated as Jingangzhi. He was a man of the country of Malaya in southern India. His father was a brāhmaṇa skilled in the five sciences who served as the preceptor of the king of Kāñcī. When Vajrabodhi was a few years old, he could recite ten thousand words a day. At the age of fifteen he awakened to Buddhist principles, and thereupon went forth from household life, following his master to Nālandā Monastery in central India to study the Abhidharma and other subjects. When he ascended the ordination platform according to the monastic law, he studied the vinayas of the eighteen schools. He then went to western India to study various treatises of the Hīnayāna. For more than ten years, he thoroughly mastered the three collections: sūtras, vinayas, and treatises. Hearing that the Buddha Dharma flourished in Cīna (referring to the Eastern Land at that time), he boarded a ship and came. In the seventh year of the Kaiyuan era, he arrived at Guangfu. The following year he arrived at the capital, where he was welcomed by imperial decree to lodge at Da Cien Monastery, broadly promoting the Esoteric \[teachings\] and establishing maṇḍala practices. Soon afterward he moved to Jianfu Monastery. The two Chan masters Dazhi (Daoyin) and Dahui (Yixing), as well as Tripiṭaka Master Amoghavajra, all served him as their master. In the sūtras translated by Vajrabodhi, Yixing frequently participated. Yixing once received the procedural rules for the maṇḍala practices from him. On the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the twentieth year of the Kaiyuan era, at Guangfu Monastery in Luoyang, he said to his disciples, 'When the white moon is full, I shall depart.' Thereupon he paid homage to Vairocana Buddha, circumambulating him seven times. Returning to his own cloister, he burned incense, made vows, carried the Sanskrit manuscripts on his head, and, having entrusted the newly translated teachings, quietly passed away. His age was seventy-one; his monastic age was fifty-one. On the seventh day of the eleventh month, he was buried to the right of the Yi River south of Longmen. His disciple Amoghavajra submitted a memorial, and an imperial decree posthumously honored him as National Preceptor of Consecration. By imperial order, Vice Director of the Secretariat Du Hongjian composed a stele recording his virtues (Old Tang History and Monk Controller Zanning's Biographies of Monks). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.133](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.133) - [Next: 3.135](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.135) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037~en-mt.3.134) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [宋高僧傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061.1.37) — 贊寧, Classical Chinese - [神僧傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.7.21) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.134](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.134) · Pramāṇa