[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) › 8.28 # 神僧傳 8.28 神僧傳 8.28 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [8.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.8.28) 釋代病者。天台人也。姓陳氏。誕育之辰祥光滿室。隣里驚異。七歲喪父哀毀幾于滅性。白母求出家。母纔艱阻。遂斷一指。親黨敦勸偏親。乃送於國清寺。因戒法登滿。誓志觀方。初止東京。次於河陽為民救旱。按經繢八龍王立道場。啟祝畢投諸河。舉眾咸覩畫像沈躍不定。斯須雲起膚寸。雷雨大作千里告足。自此歸心者眾。先是三城間多暴風雹。動傷苗稼雉堞。號稱毒龍為害。代病為誦密語。後經歲序都無是患。共立堂宇若生祠焉。大曆元年登太行遊霍山。乃深入幽邃結茅而居。有盜其盂食。俄見二虎據路。會逢代病。盜叩頭陳悔。慰諭畢因摩挲虎頭。如是累伏猛獸。其中山神廟晉絳之間傳其肹蠁。代病入廟勸其受歸戒。絕烹燀（音闡）牲牢。其神石像屢屢隨勸頷首聽命。由是檀信駢肩躡踵。有寘毒於酒者。賄貧女往施之。代病已知。貧女給曰。妾家醞覺美。酌施和尚求福。況以佛不逆眾生願。代病曰。汝亦是佛。然貧女。懼反飲具以情告。代病執杯啜之。俄爾酒氣及兩脛足。地為之僨（音奮）烈聞者驚怪。以酒供養自茲始也。汾隰西河人有疾。只給與淨水。飲之必瘳。貞元中奄然跏趺示滅。 > Shi Daibing was a native of Tiantai, surnamed Chen. On the day of his birth, auspicious light filled the room, startling the neighbors. At the age of seven, he lost his father, grieving to the point of almost destroying his own life. He informed his mother of his wish to renounce household life; when his mother showed slight hesitation and reluctance, he immediately severed one of his fingers. His relatives earnestly persuaded his surviving parent, and he was finally sent to Guoqing Monastery. Having completed the full precepts, he vowed to wander and observe the regions. At first he stayed in the Eastern Capital, and subsequently in Heyang, where he relieved drought for the people. In accordance with the scriptures, he painted the eight dragon kings and established a place of practice; after offering invocations and prayers, he cast them into the river. The entire assembly witnessed the painted images bobbing up and down unsettled in the water. In an instant, clouds arose from small beginnings, thunder and rain burst forth, and over a thousand li, relief was proclaimed. From this time forward, those who took refuge in him were numerous. Prior to this, violent winds and hailstorms frequently occurred among the Three Fortresses, constantly damaging crops and battlements; people called it the harm of a poisonous dragon. Daibing recited secret mantras for them, and throughout subsequent years there was no such affliction at all. Together they erected a hall as a shrine for him during his lifetime. In the first year of Dali, he ascended the Taihang Mountains and wandered Mount Huo, venturing deep into the secluded recesses to build a thatched hut and dwell there. Someone stole his bowl and food; soon after, two tigers were seen blocking the path. Just then they encountered Daibing; the thief knocked his head on the ground and confessed his wrongdoing. Having comforted and admonished him, Daibing stroked the tigers' heads. In this way, he repeatedly subdued ferocious beasts. Among these places was a mountain spirit shrine, whose spiritual responses were widely rumored between Jin and Jiang. Daibing entered the shrine and exhorted the spirit to receive the refuges and precepts, and to put an end to the slaughter and boiling of livestock victims. The spirit's stone statue repeatedly nodded in assent and obeyed his instructions following his exhortations. Consequently, donors and faithful followed one another shoulder to shoulder and heel to toe. Someone placed poison in wine and bribed an impoverished woman to go and offer it. Daibing already knew this. The impoverished woman deceived him, saying: "My family's brew has turned out delicious; I pour and offer it to the Venerable to seek blessings, especially since the Buddha does not go against the wishes of sentient beings." Daibing said: "You too are a Buddha." Thereupon the poor woman grew terrified, turned the drinking vessel over, and told him the truth. Daibing held the cup and sipped it. In a moment, the fumes of the wine reached down to his shins and feet, and the ground cracked and burst apart violently beneath them, terrifying all who heard it. The practice of making offerings of wine began from this. When the people of Fen, Xi, and Xihe fell ill, he merely gave them pure water; upon drinking it, they were invariably cured. During the Zhenyuan era, he suddenly sat in the lotus posture and manifested extinction. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 8.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.8.27) - [Next: 8.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.8.29) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.8) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064~en-mt.8.28) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.8.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.8.28) · Pramāṇa