[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) › [神僧傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064) › 2.18 # 神僧傳 2.18 神僧傳 2.18 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.2.18) 釋法安。一名慈欽。未詳何許人。遠公弟子也。善持戒行講說眾經兼習禪業。善能開化愚矇拔邪歸正。晉義熙中新陽縣虎災。縣有大社樹下築神廟。左右居民以百數。遭虎死者夕有一二。安嘗遊其縣暮投此村。民以畏虎早閉門閭。安徑之樹下通夜坐禪。向曉聞虎負人而至投之樹北。見安如喜如驚。跳伏安前。安為說法授戒。虎踞地不動。有頃而去。平旦村中人追虎至樹下。見安大驚。謂是神人。遂傳之一縣。士庶宗奉。虎災由此而息。因改神廟留安立寺。左右田園皆捨為眾業。後欲作畫像須銅青困不能得。夜夢見一人近其床前云。此下有銅鍾覺即掘之果得二口。因以青成像。後以一鍾助遠公鑄佛。餘一武昌太守熊無患借視遂留之。安後不知所終。 > Śramaṇa Fa'an, also named Ciqin, was of unknown origin. He was a disciple of Master Huiyuan. He was skilled in upholding the vinaya practices, lecturing on the various sūtras, and also practicing the work of dhyāna. He was well able to instruct the ignorant and deluded, plucking them from heterodoxy and returning them to the correct. During the Yixi era of the Jin dynasty, there was a plague of tigers in Xinyang County. The county had a large altar tree under which a spirit shrine was built. The residents around it numbered in the hundreds; every night one or two people were killed by tigers. Fa'an once traveled through that county and lodged in this village at dusk. The people, fearing the tigers, had closed their gates early. Fa'an went straight beneath the tree and sat in dhyāna throughout the night. Toward dawn, he heard a tiger carrying a person arrive and cast him to the north of the tree. Seeing Fa'an, it appeared both pleased and startled, leaping and crouching before Fa'an. Fa'an preached the Dharma and conferred the precepts upon it; the tiger crouched on the ground without moving, and after a while it left. At daybreak, the villagers tracking the tiger reached the base of the tree and were greatly astonished to see Fa'an, taking him to be a divine person. The news then spread throughout the county, and gentry and commoners alike revered him. The tiger plague ceased as a result. Consequently, they transformed the spirit shrine and invited Fa'an to remain and establish a monastery, relinquishing the surrounding fields and gardens to become communal property. Later, wishing to make painted images, he needed copper green (verdigris) but was distressed at being unable to obtain any. At night he dreamed of a person approaching his bed, who said, "Under here are bronze bells." Upon waking, he dug there and indeed found two of them; he thus used their verdigris to complete the images. Later, he used one bell to assist Master Huiyuan in casting a Buddha statue; the remaining one was borrowed by Xiong Wuhuan, the Grand Administrator of Wuchang, to view, who then kept it. Fa'an's ultimate end is unknown. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.2.17) - [Next: 2.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.2.19) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064~en-mt.2.18) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.2.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.2.18) · Pramāṇa