[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) › [高僧傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059) › 12.18 # 高僧傳 12.18 高僧傳 12.18 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [12.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.12.18) 釋僧瑜，姓周，吳興餘杭人。弱冠出家，業素純粹。元嘉十五年，與同學曇溫、慧光等於廬山南嶺，共建精舍，名曰「招隱」。瑜常以為結累三塗，情形故也，情將盡矣，形亦宜損。藥王之𨅊，獨何云遠？於是屢發言誓，始契燒身。 > Shi Sengyu had the secular surname of Zhou and was a native of Yuhang in Wuxing. He left household life at capping age, his practice pure and unmixed. In the fifteenth year of Yuanjia, together with his fellow students Tanwen, Huiguang, and others, he built a monastery on the southern ridge of Mount Lu, naming it Zhaoyin. Sengyu always believed that entanglement in the three evil destinies was due to emotion and bodily form; since emotion was nearly extinguished, the bodily form should also be discarded. Why should the footprints of Bhaiṣajyarāja alone be considered distant? Thereupon he repeatedly made spoken vows and first resolved to burn his body. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 12.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.12.17) - [Next: 12.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.12.19) - [Up: 12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.12) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059~en-mt.12.18) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.12.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.12.18) · Pramāṇa