[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) › [弘贊法華傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2067) › 3.8 # 弘贊法華傳 3.8 弘贊法華傳 3.8 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2067.3.8) 釋智琰。俗姓朱。吳郡人。祖獻。梁員外散騎侍郎。父珉。陳奉朝請。母張氏。初懷孕日。夢升高塔。登相輪而坐。誕育之後。有異儕童。八歲出家。事通玄寺璩法師。為弟子。其後。博採群經。跨轢先輩。陳至德三年。建仁王齊。百師百座。競流天口之辯。琰時年二十有二。以英少之質。簉弘通之寄。機辯縱橫。眾所嗟服。隋煬帝在蕃。亦深加禮異。至大唐統宇。還歸武丘山寺。講念之餘。常行法花普賢等懺。又誦法花。三千餘遍。感應冥符。神瑞非一。宵爐未爇。自起煙芬。夕灌纔空。潛加溢水。以貞觀八年十月。遷神山寺。春秋七十一。凡講法花三十餘遍。 > Shi Zhiyan's secular surname was Zhu, and he was a man of Wujun. His grandfather Xian was an Extraneous Cavalier Attendant Gentleman of the Liang dynasty. His father Min was a Court Attendant of the Chen dynasty. His mother, Lady Zhang, when first pregnant, dreamed of ascending a tall stūpa and sitting on its wheel-spire. After his birth, he was different from other children. At the age of eight he went forth from the household life, serving Master Qu of Tongxuan Temple as his disciple. Thereafter, he gathered extensively from the myriad scriptures, outstripping his predecessors. In the third year of the Zhide reign of the Chen dynasty, the Renwang Vegetarian Feast was instituted, with a hundred masters on a hundred seats competing in outpourings of heavenly eloquence. Yan was then twenty-two years of age; with the natural endowment of a brilliant youth, he took part in the trust of widespread propagation, his quick-witted eloquence unhindered, winning the admiration and surrender of the multitude. When Emperor Yang of the Sui was prince of the fief, he also accorded him extraordinary reverence. When the Great Tang unified the realm, he returned to Mount Wuqiu Temple. Aside from lecturing and recitation, he constantly practiced the Lotus and Samantabhadra repentances. He also recited the Lotus Sūtra more than three thousand times, invisibly tallying with spiritual resonances, with miraculous omens occurring more than once: before the evening censer was kindled, fragrant smoke rose of itself; when the evening water basin was barely empty, it secretly filled and overflowed with water. In the tenth month of the eighth year of the Zhenguan reign, his spirit departed at the mountain temple. His age was seventy-one. In all, he lectured on the Lotus Sūtra more than thirty times. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2067.3.7) - [Next: 3.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2067.3.9) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2067.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2067~en-mt.3.8) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [續高僧傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060.14.17) — 道宣, Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2067.3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2067.3.8) · Pramāṇa