宋高僧傳 2.6

2.6

畏風儀爽俊，聰叡超群，解究五乘，道該三學，總持、禪觀，妙達其源。藝術伎能，悉聞精練。初詣那爛陀寺，此云施無厭也，像法之泉源，眾聖之會府。畏乃捨傳國寶珠瑩于大像之額，晝如月魄，夜若曦輪焉。寺有達摩掬多者，掌定門之祕鑰，佩如來之密印，顏如四十許，其實八百歲也，玄奘三藏昔曾見之。畏投身接足，奉為本師。一日侍食之次，旁有一僧，震旦人也，畏視其鉢中見油餌尚溫，粟飯猶暖。愕而歎曰：「東國去此十萬餘里，是彼朝熟而返也？」掬多曰：「汝能不言，真可學焉。」後乃授畏總持、瑜伽、三密教也，龍神圍遶，森在目前，其諸印契，一時頓受。即日灌頂，為人天師，稱曰「三藏」。夫「三藏」之義者，則內為戒、定、慧，外為經、律、論，以陀羅尼總攝之也。陀羅尼者，是菩提速疾之輪，解脫吉祥之海，三世諸佛生於此門，慧照所傳，一燈而已。根殊性異，燈亦無邊。由是有百億釋迦微塵三昧，菩薩以綱總攝於諸定，頓升階位，隣於大覺，此其旨也。

Śubhakara had an open and handsome bearing, and his brilliance surpassed the crowd. His understanding thoroughly probed the five vehicles, and his practice encompassed the three disciplines; in dhāraṇī and dhyāna-contemplation, he wonderfully reached their source. In artistic skills and technical crafts, he was heard to be refined in all. At first he went to Nālandā Temple—translated as "Giving without Satiation"—the headwaters of the Semblance Dharma and the assembly hall of all sages. Śubhakara gave the state-transmitting jewel to adorn the forehead of the great image, shining like the moon by day and the sun by night. At the temple was Dharmagupta, who held the secret key of the gate of concentration and carried the secret seal of the Tathāgata; his countenance was about forty, but his actual age was eight hundred years, and Tripiṭaka Master Xuanzang had once seen him. Śubhakara cast down his body and touched his feet, honoring him as his root master. One day while attending him at a meal, nearby was a monk from China; Śubhakara looked into his bowl and saw that the fried pastries were still warm and the millet rice still hot. Astounded, he sighed: "The Eastern Country is more than a hundred thousand li from here; did he cook this in the morning and return?" Dharmagupta said: "If you can refrain from speaking, you can truly study." Afterward, he transmitted to Śubhakara the dhāraṇī, yoga, and three secrets teaching; dragons and spirits encircled them, standing densely before their eyes, and he received all the seals and mudrās at once. On that very day he underwent abhiṣeka, becoming a teacher of gods and humans, styled "Tripiṭaka." Now, the meaning of "Tripiṭaka" is internally the precepts, concentration, and wisdom, and externally the sūtras, vinaya, and treatises, all of which are encompassed by dhāraṇīs. A dhāraṇī is the swift wheel of bodhi and the auspicious ocean of liberation; the Buddhas of the three periods of time are born from this gate, and what the light of wisdom transmits is but a single lamp. Because faculties differ and natures are distinct, the lamps are also boundless. Therefore, there are a hundred billion Śākyamunis and samādhis as numerous as fine dust; a bodhisattva uses the overarching net to encompass all concentrations, abruptly ascending the stages to border on Great Awakening—this is its essential import.