[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) › 3.18 # 神僧傳 3.18 神僧傳 3.18 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.3.18) 釋慧達。姓劉氏。名窣和。本咸陽東北三城定陽稽胡也。先不事佛目不識字。後因酒會疾。命終備覩地獄眾苦之相。因出家為僧。住于文成郡。至元魏太武太延元年流化將訖。便事西返行及涼州番禾郡東北望御谷而遙禮之。人莫有曉者。乃問其故。達云。此崖當有像現。若靈相圓備則世樂時康。如其有闕則世亂民苦。爾後八十七年至正光初。忽天風雨雷震山裂。挺出石像舉身丈八。形相端嚴唯無有首。登即選石命工彫鐫別頭安訖還落。因遂住之。魏道凌遲其言驗矣。逮周元年治涼州。城東七里㵎忽有光現。徹照幽顯觀者異之。乃像首也便奉至山巖安之。宛然符會。相好圓備。太平斯在。保定元年置為瑞像寺焉。識者方知其先監。達後行至肅州酒泉縣城西七里㵎中死。其骨並碎如葵子大。可穿之。今城西古寺中塑像在焉。 > Shi Huida was of the Liu family, named Suhe. He was originally a Ji-Hu barbarian of Dingyang in Sancheng, northeast of Xianyang. Formerly he did not serve the Buddha and was illiterate. Later, due to illness at a drinking party, his life came to an end, and he witnessed the signs of the manifold sufferings of hell in their entirety. Thereupon, he renounced household life and became a monk, residing in Wancheng Commandery. In the first year of the Taiyan era of Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei (435 CE), as his work of circulating conversion was nearly complete, he undertook his return to the west. Traveling until he reached the northeast of Fanhe Commandery in Liangzhou, he gazed toward the Imperial Valley and bowed to it from afar. None of the people understood this, so they asked him the reason. Huida said, 'An image will appear on this cliff. If the miraculous marks are complete, the world will be joyful and the era peaceful; if there are deficiencies, the world will be disordered and the people will suffer.' Eighty-seven years later, at the beginning of the Zhengguang era (520 CE), there were suddenly heavenly winds, rain, and thunderclaps, and the mountain split open; a stone image sprang forth, its entire body eighteen feet high, with upright and dignified marks, only without a head. Immediately, stone was selected and craftsmen were ordered to carve a separate head; after it was placed, it fell off again. Thereupon they ceased. The virtue of the Wei declined, proving his words verified. Reaching the first year of the Northern Zhou (557 CE), when Liangzhou was governed, a light suddenly appeared in a ravine seven li east of the city, penetrating and illuminating the dark and visible worlds; those who watched were amazed. It was the head of the image. They immediately conveyed it to the mountain cliff and installed it; it fit seamlessly like a tally. The marks and signs were complete, and great peace resided there. In the first year of the Baoding era (561 CE), it was designated Ruixiang Monastery (Auspicious Image Monastery). Those of understanding only then realized his foresight. Later, Huida traveled until he died in a ravine seven li west of the city wall of Jiuquan County in Su Prefecture; his bones were shattered into pieces the size of sunflower seeds, which could be threaded together. Now, in the ancient monastery west of the city, his sculpted image still exists. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.3.17) - [Next: 3.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.3.19) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064~en-mt.3.18) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.3.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.3.18) · Pramāṇa