[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) › 9.35 # 神僧傳 9.35 神僧傳 9.35 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [9.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.9.35) 釋自新。姓孫氏。臨淄人也。濯戒尋師曾無懈廢。聞膺禪師化被鍾陵。往參問焉。從雲居長往迴錫隱廣德山中。屬兩浙文穆王錢氏率吏士躬征苑陵入山寺。群僧皆竄。唯新晏如。問曰。何不避。對曰。東西俱是賊。令老僧去何處逃避。王驚其訏直迴戈遣歸。見武肅王問之。言無所屈加之高行。造應瑞院居之。假號曰廣現大師。初新甞入宣城山采藥。穿洞深去。始則闇昧尋見日分明。行僅數里。洞側有別竅。溪水泛泛然。隈一大松枝下有草菴。一僧雪眉擁衲坐禪。旁有一磬火器。新擊磬遂開目驚曰。嘻師何緣至此。乃陳行止揖坐。取石敲火煎茗。香味可愛。日將夕矣。僧讓菴令新宿。顧其僧上松巔大巢內。聞念法華經聲甚清亮。逡巡又咄罵云。此群畜生毛類何苦生人恐怖。速歸林薄不宜輒出叱去。新窺之乃虎豹弭耳而去。明日謂其僧曰。願在此侍巾屨。僧曰。自此百日草枯四絕人烟非師棲息處。又問莫飢否。相引至溪畔。有稻百餘穗。收其穀手挪三掬黃粱。挑野蔬和煮與食。後遣回去。送至洞口曰。相遇非偶然也。所食茶與菜糜師平生不乏食矣。遂遵路迴本院。已月餘日命同好再往尋之失洞蹤跡。後在浙中充寶塔寺主。以天福中卒于住寺。年八十餘。今影在冷水灣前小院存焉。 > Śramaṇa Zixin, surnamed Sun, was a native of Linzi. In purifying the precepts and seeking masters, he was never indolent. Hearing that Chan Master \[Daoyong of Yunju\]'s teaching had spread over Zhongling, he went to consult him. After a long stay at Yunju, he turned his staff and lived in seclusion in Mount Guangde. It happened that King Wenmu of Liangzhe, Qian \[Yuanguan\], led officers and soldiers on a personal expedition against Yuanling and entered the mountain monastery. The crowd of monks all fled in hiding; only Xin remained at ease. \[The King\] asked, "Why do you not take flight?" He replied, "East and west are both bandits. Where would you have this old monk flee?" The king was astonished by his boldness and uprightness; he turned his halberd and sent him back. When King Wusu saw him and questioned him, his speech was unyielding, and his conduct lofty besides. He built the Yingsrui Cloister for him to reside in, and gave him the honorary title Great Master Guangxian. Earlier, Xin once entered the mountains of Xuancheng to gather medicinal herbs. Penetrating deep through a cave, at first it was dark, but presently daylight was clear. Having walked only several miles, by the side of the cave was another opening, where a stream flowed gently. Under a large pine bough in a recess was a thatched hermitage. A monk with snow-white eyebrows, wrapped in a patched robe, was seated in meditation; beside him were a chime and a fire implement. Xin struck the chime, whereupon the monk opened his eyes in surprise and said, "Aha! Master, by what circumstance have you come here?" He then set forth his travels and was invited to sit. Taking a stone, he struck fire and brewed tea, the aroma and flavor of which were delightful. As the sun set, the monk offered the hermitage for Xin to lodge in. Looking up, \[Xin saw\] the monk climb into a large nest atop the pine tree. He heard the sound of the Lotus Sūtra being chanted, very clear and bright. In a little while, the monk shouted and scolded, "Why should you beasts and hairy brutes bring terror to people? Return quickly to the woods and thickets; do not venture out so casually!" and drove them away. Xin peeked out: tigers and leopards lowered their ears and departed. The next day, Xin said to the monk, "I wish to remain here to attend to your towel and shoes." The monk said, "From here, in a hundred days the grasses will wither and all human traces will be cut off; this is no place for the master to dwell." He also asked, "Are you hungry?" and led him to the stream's bank, where there were a hundred-odd ears of rice. Gathering the grains, he hushed three handfuls of yellow millet with his hands, gathered wild greens, cooked them together, and gave them to Xin to eat. Afterwards he sent him back, seeing him to the mouth of the cave, saying, "Our meeting was no accident. Having eaten this tea and vegetable congee, you shall not lack food throughout your life." \[Xin\] then followed the road back to his cloister. More than a month later, he instructed like-minded companions to go again to seek it, but the traces of the cave were lost. Later, he served as the abbot of Baota Monastery in Zhejiang. In the Tianfu reign era, he passed away at his monastery at the age of over eighty. Today his portrait remains in a small cloister before Lengshuiwan. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 9.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.9.34) - [Next: 9.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.9.36) - [Up: 9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.9) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064~en-mt.9.35) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.9.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.9.35) · Pramāṇa