[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) › 7.23 # 神僧傳 7.23 神僧傳 7.23 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [7.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.7.23) 釋鑑源。不知何許人。素行甄明。後講華嚴經號為勝集。日供千人粥食。其倉簟中米粟纔數百斛。取之不竭。沿夏涉秋未嘗告匱。冥感如此。後多徵應。有慧觀禪師。見三百餘僧持蓮燈凌空而去。歷歷如流星焉。開元中崔冀公寧疑其妖妄。躬自入山宿。預禁山四方面各三十里火光。至第三夜有百餘支燈。現兼紅光可千餘尺。冀公蹶然作禮歎未曾有。時松間出金色手長七尺許。有二菩薩黃白金色閃爍。然復庭前柏樹上晝現一燈。其明如日。橫布玻瓈。山可三里所寶珠一顆圓一丈。熠爚可愛。西嶺山門懸大虹橋。橋上梵僧老叟童子。間出有二炬爛然空中。如相迎送交過之狀。下有四菩薩兩兩偶立。放通身光可高六七十尺。復見大松林後。忽有寺額篆書三學字。又燈下垂繡帶二條。東林之間夜出金山。月當于午。金銀二色燈列於知鉉師墳側。韋南康臯每三月就寺設三百菩薩大齋。菩薩現相焉。 > The monk Jianyuan was of unknown origins. His conduct had always been pure and distinct. Later, he lectured on the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, which was called a supreme gathering. Daily, he provided porridge and food for a thousand people. In his granaries and bins, there were only a few hundred bushels of rice and millet, yet it was never exhausted when taken; through summer and into autumn, a shortage was never announced. Such was the unseen resonance. Later, there were many miraculous verifications. There was Chan Master Huiguan, who saw more than three hundred monks holding lotus lamps and soaring across the empty sky, as vivid as shooting stars. During the Kaiyuan era, Cui Ning, Duke of Jiji, suspected it was demonic falsehood and personally went into the mountains to stay overnight, prohibiting in advance any flame or light within thirty li on all four sides of the mountain. By the third night, more than a hundred lamps appeared, accompanied by red light extending about a thousand feet. Duke Jiji sprang to his feet, made prostrations, and sighed at what had never been seen before. At that time, a golden hand about seven feet long emerged from among the pines, and two bodhisattvas of yellow-and-white golden hue flickered with radiance. Furthermore, atop a cypress tree in the courtyard, a single lamp appeared by day, its brightness like the sun. Crystal lay strewn across \[the area\]; in the mountain, an expanse of about three li featured a single round, ten-foot jewel, brilliantly shimmering and enchanting. Over the mountain gate of the western ridge hung a great rainbow bridge. On the bridge, Indian monks, old men, and boys appeared intermittently; two blazing torches appeared in midair, seemingly meeting, seeing off, and crossing paths with one another. Below, four bodhisattvas stood in pairs, emitting whole-body radiance about sixty or seventy feet high. Again, behind a great pine grove, there suddenly appeared a temple plaque inscribed with the three characters 'Three Learnings' in seal script. Also, two embroidered ribbons hung beneath the lamps. Between the eastern groves, a golden mountain appeared by night, with the moon at its zenith. Lamps of gold and silver hues stood in a row beside the tomb of Master Zhixuan. Every three months, Wei Gao, Duke of Nankang, would go to the monastery to host a great vegetarian feast for three hundred bodhisattvas, and the bodhisattvas would manifest their forms there. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 7.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.7.22) - [Next: 7.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.7.24) - [Up: 7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.7) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064~en-mt.7.23) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.7.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.7.23) · Pramāṇa