[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) › 2.38 # 神僧傳 2.38 神僧傳 2.38 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.2.38) 僧慧紹。不知出處。孩孺時母哺魚肉即吐。自是不茹葷。八歲出家為僧。通法華經苦行堅節。後隨師僧要止臨川招提寺。常念佛恩之重。誓欲捨身以報。乃僱人斫薪。於東山石室積高一丈。中開一龕。即還寺告師。師諫不從。於是剋日就山建八關齋會。闔境奔赴雲滿山谷。至夜紹自行香執燭燃薪。入龕而坐。誦藥王捨身品。火沿至額猶聞經聲。大眾忽見一星大如斗直下火中俄而升天。咸謂天宮迎接之瑞。紹嘗謂同學曰。吾燒身處當生梧桐木。切莫伐之。後三日果爾而生。道俗異之。 > The monk Huishao: his origins are unknown. When he was an infant, his mother fed him fish and meat, but he immediately vomited it out; from then on, he never consumed meat. At the age of eight, he left household life to become a monk. He mastered the Lotus Sūtra and was steadfast in his ascetic practices. Later, following his master, the monk Yao, he resided at Zhaoti Monastery in Linchuan. Constantly mindful of the profound weight of the Buddha's kindness, he vowed to renounce his body in repayment. He then hired people to chop firewood and stacked it ten feet high in a stone chamber on the East Mountain, opening a niche in the center. He returned to the monastery and informed his master, who admonished him, but \[Huishao\] would not listen. Thereupon, setting a fixed date, he ascended the mountain to hold an eight-precept fast gathering. The entire region rushed to attend, filling the valleys like clouds. When night fell, Shao personally circumambulated with incense, held a torch, lit the firewood, entered the niche, and sat down. As he recited the Chapter on the Bodhisattva Bhaiṣajyarāja’s Renunciation of the Body, even as the flames reached his forehead, the sound of the sūtra recitation could still be heard. The great assembly suddenly saw a star as large as a bushel measure fall straight into the fire, and after a moment it ascended into the sky. All said it was an auspicious sign of heavenly palaces coming to welcome him. Shao once said to his fellow disciples, “Where my body burns, a paulownia tree will grow; by all means do not cut it down.” After three days, it indeed grew there. Clerics and laypeople marveled at it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.2.37) - [Next: 2.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.2.39) - [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.2.38) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.2.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.2.38) · Pramāṇa