[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) › 3.164 # 釋氏稽古略 3.164 釋氏稽古略 3.164 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.164](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.164) 盂蘭盆　丙午大曆元年七月壬午。帝作盂蘭盆會于禁中。設高祖太宗已下七聖位。建巨幡。各以帝號標其上。自太廟迎入內道場。是日立仗百僚於光順門迎拜導從。自是歲以為常。癸未太廟二室生靈芝。帝賦詩美之。百僚皆和（見唐舊史）。經云。佛大弟子目犍連尊者神通第一。適母氏命終墮餓鬼中。目連往見之。白佛救度之。佛命以七月十五僧自恣日備設齋供。供佛齋僧念讀諸經。母乃脫離餓鬼。丁未大曆一年七月。觀軍容魚朝恩。奏以先所賜莊為章敬寺。以資太后冥福。 > Ullambana: In the bing-wu year, the first year of Dali, on the ren-wu day of the seventh month, the Emperor held an Ullambana assembly in the palace. He set up seats for the seven imperial ancestors from Gaozu and Taizong downward, erected huge banners, and inscribed the imperial titles of each atop them. They were welcomed from the Imperial Ancestral Temple into the inner bodhimaṇḍa. On that day, the military guards were drawn up, and the hundred officials bowed in welcome at the Guangshun Gate and formed an escorting retinue. From then on, it became an annual custom. On the gui-wei day, lingzhi mushrooms grew in two chambers of the Imperial Ancestral Temple. The Emperor composed a poem praising it, and all the officials harmonized with it (see the Old History of the Tang). A sūtra states: "The Buddha's great disciple, the Venerable Maudgalyāyana, was foremost in supernatural powers. When his mother passed away, she fell among the hungry ghosts. Maudgalyāyana went and saw her, and he reported it to the Buddha to rescue and liberate her. The Buddha instructed that on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the day of the monks' Pravāraṇā, abundant vegetarian offerings should be prepared to make offerings to the Buddha, provide a vegetarian feast to the saṅgha, and chant the various sūtras; only then did his mother escape from the hungry ghosts." In the ding-wei year, the \[second\] year of Dali, in the seventh month, Yu Chao'en, Commissioner of Military Affairs, memorialized to turn an estate previously bestowed on him into the Zhangjing Monastery in order to aid the posthumous blessings of the Empress Dowager. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.163](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.163) - [Next: 3.165](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.165) - [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.3.164) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [佛祖歷代通載](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.14.6) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.164](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.164) · Pramāṇa