神僧傳 9.65

9.65

國師膽巴者。一名功嘉。葛刺思西番突甘斯旦麻人。幼從西天竺古達麻失利。傳習梵祕得其法要。世祖中統間帝師八思巴薦之。時懷孟大旱。世祖命禱之立雨。又甞呪食投龍湫。頃之奇花異果湧出波面。取以上進。世祖大悅。樞密副使月的迷失鎮潮。而妻得奇疾。膽巴以所持數珠加其身即愈。又甞為月的迷失言異夢。及已還朝期後皆驗。元貞間海都犯西番界。成宗命禱于摩訶葛刺神。已而捷書果至。又為成宗禱疾遄愈。賜予甚厚。且詔分御前校尉十人為之導從。成宗北巡。命膽巴以象輿前導。過雲川語諸弟子曰。此地有靈怪恐驚乘輿當密持神呪以厭之。未幾風雨大至。眾咸驚懼惟幄殿無虞。復賜碧鈿杯一。大德七年夏卒。皇慶間追號大覺普惠廣照無上膽巴帝師。

State Preceptor Dampa was also named Gongjia. He was a man of Gesisi, Danma in Tugansi of the Western Tubo. In his youth he followed Gautamaśrī from Western Tianzhu, learning and mastering Sanskrit secrets and grasping their essential teachings. During the Zhongtong era of Shizu, Imperial Preceptor 'Phags-pa recommended him. At that time there was a great drought in Huaimeng. Shizu ordered him to pray for it, and it immediately rained. He also once chanted mantras over food and cast it into a dragon pool; in a short while, extraordinary flowers and rare fruits welled up from the surface of the waves, and he took them to present to the emperor. Shizu was greatly pleased. When Assistant Commissioner of Military Affairs Yuedemishi was stationed in Chaozhou, his wife contracted a strange disease. Dampa touched her body with his rosary, and she was instantly cured. He also once recounted a strange dream to Yuedemishi, and both that and the date of his return to the court were subsequently verified. During the Yuanzhen era, Qaidu invaded the Tibetan borders. Chengzong ordered him to pray to the deity Mahākāla. Soon after, the victory report indeed arrived. He also prayed for Chengzong when he was ill, and he quickly recovered. The gifts bestowed on him were very generous. Moreover, [the emperor] decreed that ten palace guard officers be assigned to form his retinue. When Chengzong went on an inspection tour to the north, he ordered Dampa to ride an elephant carriage ahead as the vanguard. Crossing Yunchuan, he told his disciples, 'There are weird spirits in this place; fearing they may frighten the imperial carriage, we should secretly recite divine mantras to suppress them.' Before long, severe wind and rain arose; the multitude were all terrified, but the tent palace alone was safe and unharmed. [The emperor] again bestowed on him a cup inlaid with green jade. He died in the summer of the seventh year of the Dade era. During the Huangqing era, he was posthumously granted the title of Incomparable Imperial Preceptor Dampa, the Greatly Awakened, Broadly Beneficent, and Widely Illuminating.