[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) › 12.6 # 高僧傳 12.6 高僧傳 12.6 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [12.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.12.6) 釋曇稱，河北人。少而仁愛，惠及昆虫。晉末至彭城，見有老人，年八十，夫妻窮悴，迺捨戒為奴，累年執役。而內修道德，未嘗有廢，鄉隣嗟之。及二老卒，傭賃獲直，悉為二老福用。擬以自贖。事畢欲還入道，法物未備。 > Shi Tancheng was a native of Hebei. From youth he was humane and loving, extending his kindness even to insects. At the end of the Jin dynasty he came to Pengcheng, where he saw an eighty-year-old man and his wife in dire poverty and distress; he thereupon gave up his precepts to become their slave, performing menial service for several years. Yet inwardly he cultivated virtue without ever neglecting it, and his neighbors sighed in admiration. When the two elderly people died, the wages he earned from hired labor were entirely dedicated to generating merit for them, and he planned to use them to redeem himself. When this was completed, he wished to re-enter the monastic path, but the required ritual implements were not yet prepared. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 12.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.12.5) - [Next: 12.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.12.7) - [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.12.6) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.12.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.12.6) · Pramāṇa