[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) › [宋高僧傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061) › 24.7 # 宋高僧傳 24.7 宋高僧傳 24.7 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [24.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061.24.7) 釋法智者，不詳何許人也。髫年離俗，應法升壇，松直凌空，玉堅絕污，凡百講肆，靡不留神。晚歲以逕直之門莫如念佛，每謂人曰：「我聞經言，犯一吉羅，歷一中劫，入于地獄，可信。又聞經說一稱阿彌陀佛，滅八十億劫生死重罪，則未之信。」人難云：「何故生大邪見？俱是佛言，急須念佛，久則三昧現前。」乃於國清寺兜率臺上晝夜精勤念佛。忽預辭道俗云：「生西方去，令親識為吾設齋終日。」於中夜無疾而化，時有金色光明來迎，照數百里。江上船中，謂言天曉，遲久方明。始知智之往生矣。 > Shi Fazhi, of unknown origins. He renounced secular life in his youth and ascended the ordination platform according to the Dharma. Upright as a pine reaching for the sky, pure and hard as jade free from defilement, he paid heed to all lecture halls without exception. In his later years, regarding no gate as more direct than reciting the Buddha's name, he often said to people: 'I have heard the scriptures say that committing a single duṣkṛta causes one to fall into hell for an intermediate kalpa, which is believable. But I have also heard the scriptures say that a single recitation of the name of Amitābha Buddha extinguishes eighty billion kalpas of grave offenses of birth and death, which I find hard to believe.' People challenged him: 'Why give rise to such great wrong views? Both are the Buddha's words. You must urgently recite the Buddha's name; in time, samādhi will manifest.' Thereupon, upon the Tuṣita Platform of Guoqing Temple, he recited the Buddha's name day and night with diligence. Suddenly he took prior leave of clergy and laity, saying: 'I am going to the Western Pure Land; let my relatives and acquaintances hold a vegetarian feast for me for the whole day.' At midnight, he passed away without illness. At that time, a golden light came to welcome him, illuminating several hundred li. Those aboard boats on the river thought it was dawn, but full daylight came only after a long delay. Only then did they realize that Zhi had attained rebirth \[in the Pure Land\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 24.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061.24.6) - [Next: 24.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061.24.8) - [Up: 24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061.24) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061~en-mt.24.7) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061.24.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061.24.7) · Pramāṇa