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It pointed its head east toward the Eastern Palace, but was unable to enter anywhere; it ran off toward the northeast and suddenly vanished. When Fotudeng heard of it, he sighed and said: 'The calamity has arrived!' In the eleventh month, Shi Hu held a great banquet for his ministers in the front hall of Taiwu Palace. Fotudeng chanted: 'O hall! O hall! The jujube thorns will become a grove, and will tear men's robes.' Shi Hu ordered the stones beneath the hall to be pried up and inspected, and indeed thorns were growing there. Fotudeng returned to the temple, looked at the Buddha image, and said: 'Alas, I am grieved that I cannot adorn it.' Speaking to himself, he said: 'Can I have three years?' He answered himself: 'No, no.' He asked again: 'Can I have two years, one year, a hundred days, or one month?' He answered himself: 'No.' Then he spoke no more. He returned to his chamber and said to his disciple Fazuo: 'In the wushen year, calamity and chaos will sprout; in the jiyou year, the Shi clan will be destroyed. Before the chaos arrives, I shall pass into transformation first.' He immediately sent someone to bid farewell to Shi Hu, saying: 'It is the law of things that they must change, and life cannot be preserved. My body of flame and illusion has reached its time of transformation. Having received your exceptional favor, I respectfully inform you in advance.' Shi Hu said in sorrow: 'We had not heard that the upādhyāya was ill, yet suddenly he announces his end!' He went out from the palace in person, visiting the monastery to comfort him. Fotudeng said to Shi Hu: 'Emerging into life and entering into death is the regular law of the Way. Long and short spans are determined by destiny and cannot be prolonged by human effort. What is valued in the Way is that conduct be complete; what is prized in virtue is that one never indolently slackens. If one's deeds and discipline are without defect, though one dies, it is as though one remains alive. To violate this and merely obtain prolongation is not my wish. What remains unfulfilled in my mind is that the state has set its heart upon Buddhist principles and reveres the Dharma without begrudging anything. You have raised temples and made them exalted, magnificent, and grand; matching such virtue, you ought to enjoy auspicious blessings. Yet your governance is fierce and harsh, your punishments excessive and cruel, openly contravening the sacred scriptures and secretly defying the prohibitions of the Dharma; if you do not reprove and reform yourself, in the end there will be no blessings or protection. If you humble your heart and alter your thoughts, bestowing benevolence upon these lower people, then the state's mandate will be prolonged, both the religious and the lay will rejoice and rely upon it, and when my life comes to its end, I shall pass away without remaining regret.' Shi Hu wept and sobbed, knowing that he would surely pass away, and immediately had an underground vault dug and a tomb prepared. On the eighth day of the twelfth month, he died at the palace temple in Ye. This year was the fourth year of the Yonghe era of Emperor Mu of Jin. Scholars and commoners wailed in grief, the entire state turning out for the funeral. His age was one hundred and seventeen. He was buried at Chaimo, west of Linzhang, which was the tomb Shi Hu had established. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 9.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.9.32) - [Next: 9.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.9.34) - [Up: 9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.9) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059~en-mt.9.33) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.9.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.9.33) · Pramāṇa