[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) › 3.53 # 釋氏稽古略 3.53 釋氏稽古略 3.53 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.53) 甲寅永徽五年。帝特旨度沙彌窺基為大僧。入大慈恩寺。參譯經正義。基鄂忠武公尉遲敬德猶子也。居長安。初玄奘法師就其父求之出家。基每覽疏記過目成誦。義亦頓解善大小乘。從奘師受瑜伽唯識宗旨。著論凡百部。時號百本論師。性豪侈每出必治三車。經書食饌。時呼之曰三車法師。永淳元年入滅。壽五十一。有詔傷悼。御製畫像贊。勅葬樊川北渠。近奘法師之塋。京兆終南山宣律師持律精嚴感天厨供養。每薄基三車之玩。基訪律師。日過午天饌不至。基辭去天乃來。律師責以後時。天曰。適大乘菩薩在此。翊衛嚴甚故無自而入。律師聞之大驚。於是遐邇增敬。基公啟宗曰慈恩（本傳）。 > In the jiayin year, the fifth year of Yonghui, the emperor issued a special decree ordaining the novice Kuiji as a fully ordained monk, to enter Da Cien Monastery and participate in translating the orthodox meaning of the scriptures. Ji was the nephew of Yuchi Jingde, Duke Zhongwu of E. He resided in Chang'an. Earlier, Dharma Master Xuanzang went to his father to seek him for renunciation. Whenever Ji looked at a commentary, he memorized it with a single glance; he also understood their meanings suddenly and was skilled in both the Mahāyāna and Hīnayāna. He received the essential tenets of Yogācāra Vijñaptimātra from Master Xuanzang and composed about a hundred treatises, being known at the time as the Master of a Hundred Treatises. By nature he was luxurious and grand; whenever he went out, he inevitably prepared three carts for scriptures, books, and fine foods, so the people of the time called him the "Three-Cart Dharma Master." In the first year of Yongchun, he entered cessation at the age of fifty-one. An edict expressed grief and mourning, and an imperial panegyric was composed for his portrait. By imperial decree, he was buried at the northern canal of Fanchuan, near the tomb of Master Xuanzang. Vinaya Master Daoxuan of Mount Zhongnan in the capital upheld the monastic discipline with exquisite rigor and moved the heavenly kitchen to make offerings to him. He often disdained Ji's ostentation of the three carts. When Ji visited the Vinaya Master, past midday the heavenly food did not arrive. After Ji took his leave, the heavenly being finally came. The Vinaya Master reproached him for being late, and the heavenly being said: "Just now a Mahāyāna bodhisattva was present here. His guard was extremely strict, so there was no way for me to enter." The Vinaya Master was greatly astonished upon hearing this. Thereupon, reverence for Ji increased far and wide. Master Ji founded the school known as Cien (from his fundamental biography). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.52) - [Next: 3.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.54) - [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.3.53) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [佛祖歷代通載](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.12.8) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.53) · Pramāṇa