[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) › 12.23 # 高僧傳 12.23 高僧傳 12.23 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [12.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.12.23) 釋僧慶，姓陳，巴西安漢人。家世事五斗米道。慶生而獨悟，十三出家，止義興寺。淨修梵行，願求見佛，先捨三指，末誓燒身，漸絕糧粒，唯服香油。到大明三年二月八日，於蜀城武擔寺西，對其所造淨名像前，焚身供養。刺史張悅躬出臨視，道俗僑舊，觀者傾邑。行雲為結，苦雨悲零。俄而晴景開明，天色澄淨，見一物如龍，從𧂐昇天。時年二十三，天水太守裴方明。為收灰起塔。 > Shi Sengqing, surnamed Chen, was a native of Anhan in Baxi. His family had served the Way of the Five Pecks of Rice for generations. Sengqing attained awakening on his own from birth. He took pravrajyā at thirteen and resided at Yixing Temple. Purely cultivating brahmacarya, he made vows seeking to see the Buddha. First he severed three of his fingers, and finally he vowed to burn his body. He gradually abstained from grain and foodstuffs, consuming only fragrant oil. On the eighth day of the second month in the third year of the Daming era, in front of the image of Vimalakīrti that he had made, to the west of Wudan Temple in the city of Shu, he burned his body in offering. Regional Inspector Zhang Yue went out in person to observe, and the populace—both immigrants and locals—emptied the city to watch. Drifting clouds gathered in gloom; cold rain mournfully fell. Shortly afterward, clear skies opened up and the heavens became serene and pure. Something resembling a dragon was seen ascending to heaven from the funeral pyre. He was then twenty-three years of age. Pei Fangming, Governor of Tianshui, gathered his ashes and erected a stūpa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 12.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.12.22) - [Next: 12.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.12.24) - [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.12.23) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.12.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.12.23) · Pramāṇa