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He stood eight feet tall. Later, he listened to Master Gao lecturing on the Three Treatises and gained a profound grasp of their abstruse principles. The reach of his merit was looked up to from afar throughout the Shu region. When Gao returned to the south, \[Huizhen\] obtained two hundred kāṣāya robes to present to him at the start of his journey. Every year in the first month, he had the canon of scriptures recited; robes for a thousand monks were offered without neglect. He constantly propagated the Three Treatises, with over a hundred listeners attending. Suddenly, while on the high seat, as if in a daze, he saw a person who addressed him, saying, 'The peak of the Western Mountain is an auspicious place to make a great Buddha.' Once awakened, he came down from the seat and led the assembly to inspect the site. The center was suitable for carving an image, with springs flowing on both sides. He immediately ordered stonemasons to chisel out the pedestal and body, one hundred and thirty feet high. In the eighth year of the Zhenguan era, it was fully completed. From all four quarters \[people\] gathered; thirty thousand clerics and laypeople celebrated this revered figure. From the mouth of the image radiated a great white light, worshipped alike by those near and far. Formerly, he had a horse that could travel five hundred \[li\] a day. It had once charged into battle; while the other horses all perished, only this one managed to return. In the seventh month of the fourteenth year, it suddenly neighed of itself and refused food for three days. Hearing this, Huizhen's hair stood on end. There was an extraordinary monk named Shili who said to Huizhen, 'The horse is parting from its master; the master should precede it. On the fifteenth day of the first month of next year, precisely at midday, you shall enter nirvāṇa. Master, you must disperse your goods and wealth, leaving nothing behind; what benefit would they be to your body?' Having spoken, he vanished, and no one knew his origin. \[Huizhen\] had earlier produced a canon of scriptures, and he invited monks to recite it constantly, throwing wide the gates of great charity; everyone who came from afar out of sorrow and reverence was provided for. At the beginning of the year of his demise, he again invited an assembly of monks to chant scriptures and practice circumambulation for three weeks. His secular kinsmen, both paternal and maternal, all assembled. By the eighth day, a lush fragrance welled up and filled the temple. The clerics and laypeople of the whole city smelled this wondrous fragrance together. Donations were cast down in piles like mountains. By the fifteenth day, the fragrance still had not abated. From dawn to noon, lotus flowers grew from the trees and the earth within the temple. The assembly, seeing these miraculous omens, knew he was about to pass from the world. Huizhen said, 'The auspicious signs have already appeared; I cannot wait for the term to finish.' He thereupon distributed gifts, and after finishing his morning meal, he held an incense burner in his hands, circumambulated Rocana three times, and returned to kneel upright before the Buddha in right mindfulness. While the great assembly filled the hall, without their realizing it, he had already passed away. His age was sixty-six. His funeral was suspended to await the end of the period, and the fragrance still lingered. His three brothers each donated five hundred thousand \[coins\] at the grave site to make offerings for monastic virtue and for the field of compassion. They built a stone stupa fifty feet high, placing a rope-bed in the niche and supporting the corpse atop it. After more than a hundred days, it had still not collapsed. Over ten thousand clerics and laypeople formed ties in solemn grief. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 29.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060.29.24) - [Next: 29.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060.29.26) - [Up: 29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060.29) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060~en-mt.29.25) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.33.79) — 道世, Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060.29.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060.29.25) · Pramāṇa