[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) › 3.68 # 釋氏稽古略 3.68 釋氏稽古略 3.68 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.68) 終南山宣律師　丁卯乾封二年十月初三日。律師入滅於長安西明寺。律師諱道宣。生京兆錢氏。父吏部尚書申。母夢月輪貫懷而孕。又夢梵僧語之曰。所孕者梁之祐律師也。及長出家以律自持。感天送饌侍衛。暮年以戒壇未合律躬白負土準律新之。律師行道中夜臨砌蹶且仆。有少年介冑擁衛之。律師問汝為誰。曰弟子博叉天王子張瓊也。以師戒德故來給衛耳。律師問以世尊在世及滅度時事。瓊一一為言之。及別授律師以佛牙餌藥修合之方。今市肆天王補心圓是也。懺筵行人日用之。天神降靈不一傳流問答。律師集之。題曰感天侍應傳。律師撰內典錄三寶感應錄．佛道論衡．釋迦譜．四分羯磨．續高僧傳．廣弘明集．八部八十一卷。並行於世。律師示寂。高宗有詔傷悼。勅天下寺圖形塑像。以為標範奉祀。穆宗製讚曰。代有覺人。為如來使。龍魔歸降。嶽神奉事。聲飛五天。辭驚萬古。金烏西沈。佛日東舉。稽首歸依。肇律宗主。懿宗咸通十一年。諡號曰澄照律師（本傳）。 > Vinaya Master Daoxuan of Mount Zhongnan. In the dingmao year, the second year of Qianfeng, on the third day of the tenth month, the Vinaya Master entered nirvāṇa at Ximing Monastery in Chang'an. The Vinaya Master's taboo name was Daoxuan. He was born into the Qian clan of Jingzhao; his father was Shen, Minister of Personnel. His mother dreamed that a lunar orb penetrated her bosom and thereby became pregnant. She also dreamed of an Indian monk who said to her: "The child conceived is Vinaya Master You of the Liang." When he grew up, he left home and strictly maintained the Vinaya. He moved the devas to send him food and act as his guards. In his later years, because the ordination platform did not conform to the Vinaya, he personally carried earth and renewed it in accordance with the Vinaya. Once, while the Vinaya Master was walking the Way in the middle of the night, he stumbled at the steps and fell. A youth in armor supported and guarded him. The Vinaya Master asked, "Who are you?" He replied, "Your disciple is Zhang Qiong, son of the Heavenly King Virūpākṣa. Because of the Master's moral virtue in the precepts, I have come to attend and protect you." The Vinaya Master questioned him about matters during the World-Honoured One's lifetime and at his nirvāṇa; Qiong related them one by one. He also separately bestowed upon the Vinaya Master a Buddha's tooth and a recipe for compounding medicinal pills—what is now known in the markets as the Heavenly King Heart-Nourishing Pill. Practitioners at repentance assemblies use it daily. The heavenly spirits' descents were not infrequent, and their questions and answers were transmitted; the Vinaya Master compiled them and entitled it \*Record of the Responses and Attendances of the Moved Devas\*. The Vinaya Master wrote the \*Catalogue of Internal Scriptures\*, the \*Record of the Resonances of the Three Jewels\*, the \*Critique of Buddhism and Daoism\*, the \*Genealogy of Śākyamuni\*, the \*Four-Part Karmavācanā\*, the \*Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks\*, and the \*Expanded Collection for the Propagation and Clarification \[of Buddhism\]\*—in all, eight works in eighty-one fascicles, which all circulated in the world. When the Vinaya Master showed his passing, Gaozong issued an edict expressing his grief and mourning, ordering monasteries throughout the empire to paint his portrait and mold his statue to serve as a model for reverence and sacrifice. Muzong composed a panegyric: "In each age there are awakened ones, / serving as envoys of the Tathāgata. / Dragons and demons surrender; / mountain gods render service. / His fame soared over the Five Indias; / his words astounded ten thousand ages. / As the golden crow sank in the west, / the Buddha-sun rose in the east. / We bow our heads and take refuge / in the founding patriarch of the Vinaya school." In the eleventh year of Xiantong of Yizong, he was posthumously granted the title Vinaya Master Chengzhao (his biography). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.67) - [Next: 3.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.69) - [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.3.68) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [佛祖歷代通載](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.12.33) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.3.68) · Pramāṇa