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# 高僧傳 1.41

高僧傳 1.41

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [1.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.1.41)

祖弟法祚，亦少有令譽，被博士徵，不就。年二十五出家，深洞佛理，關隴知名。時梁州刺史張光，以祚兄不肯反服，輔之所殺。光又逼祚令罷道，祚執志堅貞，以死為誓，遂為光所害，春秋五十有七。注《放光般若經》及著《顯宗論》等。光字景武，江夏人，後為武都在楊難敵所圍，發憤而死。

> Bo Yuan's younger brother Fazuo also possessed a fine reputation in his youth; he was summoned to be an Erudite (boshi) but did not accept. At the age of twenty-five he entered the religious life; penetrating deeply into Buddhist principles, he became famous throughout Guanlong. At that time Zhang Guang, Regional Inspector of Liangzhou, noted that because his elder brother refused to return to lay clothes, Fu had killed him. Guang likewise pressured Fazuo to abandon the Way, but Fazuo remained resolute and steadfast, taking death as his vow, and was ultimately slain by Guang at the age of fifty-seven. He had annotated the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā-sūtra and composed the Xianzong lun (Treatise on Revealing the Core Teachings). Guang, styled Jingwu, was a man of Jiangxia; later, besieged at Wudu by Yang Nandi, he died of rage and despair.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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