[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) › 13.23 # 高僧傳 13.23 高僧傳 13.23 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [13.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.13.23) 釋僧護，本會稽剡人也。少出家，便剋意常苦節，戒行嚴淨。後居石城山隱嶽寺。寺北有青壁，直上數十餘丈，當中央有如佛焰光之形。上有叢樹，曲幹垂陰。護每經行至壁所，輒見光明煥炳，聞絃管歌讚之聲。於是擎爐發誓願，博山鐫造十丈石佛，以敬擬彌勒千尺之容，使凡厥有緣，同覩三會。以北齊建武中，招結道俗，初就彫剪。疏鑿移年，僅成面樸。頃之，護遘疾而亡。臨終誓曰：「吾之所造，本不期一生成辦。第二身中，其願剋果。」後有沙門僧淑，纂襲遺功，而資力莫由，未獲成遂。 > Śramaṇa Senghu was originally a man of Shan in Kuaiji. He left home in his youth and resolved always to maintain austere discipline, his precepts and conduct being strict and pure. Later he resided at Yinyue Temple on Mount Shicheng. To the north of the temple there was a blue cliff rising straight up several tens of zhang, and right in the middle it had a shape like the flame halo of a Buddha. Above were clusters of trees, their bent trunks casting shade. Whenever Hu walked in contemplation to the cliff, he would see bright light radiating brilliantly, and hear the sounds of stringed instruments, pipes, and songs of praise. Thereupon he lifted an incense burner and made a vow to carve out of the mountain a hundred-foot stone Buddha, reverently modeled after the thousand-foot form of Maitreya, so that all who had karmic ties might together behold the three assemblies. During the Jianwu era of the Northern Qi, he gathered monastics and laity and initially began carving. Quarrying and chiseling for over a year, he had only completed the rough form of the face. Soon after, Hu fell ill and died. On his deathbed he vowed: "What I have undertaken was never expected to be accomplished in a single lifetime. In my second life, this vow will certainly be fulfilled." Later, the śramaṇa Sengshu took up and continued his legacy, but lacking the necessary funds and resources, he could not bring it to completion. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 13.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.13.22) - [Next: 13.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.13.24) - [Up: 13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.13) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059~en-mt.13.23) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.13.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.13.23) · Pramāṇa