[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) › 9.14 # 弘贊法華傳 9.14 弘贊法華傳 9.14 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [9.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2067.9.14) 釋法眼。俗姓高。隋齊國公高顆曾孫也。俗字立敬。一名元懌。未出家時。貞觀中。與兄立覽。於他度寺僧明藏處。學讀法華波若。稍似精熟。敬後棄其所習。龍朔元年。征遼還。三年正月。往臺看勳。從順義門出。有兩騎追之曰。今捉獲矣。敬問曰。卿是何人。答曰。我是閻羅王使者。故來追卿。其人惶忙。走馬而出。欲投普光寺。使人曰。疾投寺門勿令入。入即得脫。及至寺門。乃見一騎投門。又西走欲入開善寺。又合騎投門。遂爾相從而奔。欲還本宅。宅在化度寺東。恐道遠。乃欲入醴泉坊。一騎在前。其人以拳擊之。鬼遂落馬。後鬼曰。此人大麁。急曳下。挽却頭髮。即被牽髮。如刀割狀。又有朱衣白馬人。以手柘敬胸。敬應時落馬顛仆。久之稍醒。若坐霧中。家人輿還。至曉穌云。備見閻羅王。云君何盜僧果子。何事說三寶過。遂依狀罪。無敢厝言。王言。盜果之罪。合吞鐵丸四百五十枚。四年受之方盡。說過之罪。合耕其舌。因放令出。遂穌。俄自見有人頭有雙角。棒一鐵丸。縛敬手足。令一一噉之。傍人不見鐵丸。唯見敬張口努目。通身赫赤。喉內熱氣上衝。蒸欝難近。經日方醒云。已一年吞百餘丸。其若無此經四日如此。吞丸云盡。即就會昌化度二寺。投誠懺悔至三月三日。又被前使追將見王。王曰。爾誹謗三寶。罪當耕舌。敬又見二人。以鉗拔舌。似長數百尺。又見二人。各執一耜刃。偶耕其上。勘案乃云。嘗讀法華金剛般若。因爾得蘇。親等視其舌上。若刀割處。為讀二經。所以不斷。敬後若思若說。戰怖流淚。因遂出家。名法眼。精厲倍常。住東都白馬寺。不知所終。 > Shi Fayan, whose secular surname was Gao, was the great-grandson of Gao Ke, Duke of Qi under the Sui. His secular courtesy name was Lijing, and another name was Yuanyi. Before leaving home, during the Zhenguan era, together with his elder brother Lilan, he studied and read the Lotus and Prajñā under the monk Mingzang of Huadu Temple, becoming somewhat proficient. Jing later abandoned what he had practiced. In the first year of the Longshuo era, he returned from the campaign against Liaodong. In the first month of the third year, he went to the Department of State Affairs to look at meritorious service records. Coming out from the Shunyi Gate, two horsemen pursued him, saying: 'Now you are caught!' Jing asked, 'Who are you, sirs?' They replied, 'We are envoys of King Yama, specifically come to pursue you.' Panic-stricken, he spurred his horse and dashed out, seeking to reach Puguang Temple. The envoys said, 'Hurry to the temple gate and do not let him enter! If he enters, he will escape!' When he arrived at the temple gate, he saw a horseman blocking the gate. He then fled westward, seeking to enter Kaishan Temple, but the horsemen joined together to block that gate as well. Thereupon they galloped in pursuit of each other. He wished to return to his own residence, which was east of Huadu Temple. Fearing the way was long, he sought to enter Liquan Ward. One horseman was in front; Jing struck him with his fist, and the ghost fell from his horse. The other ghost behind said, 'This man is exceedingly violent! Quickly drag him down and seize him by the hair!' He was immediately seized by the hair as if sliced by a knife. There was also a man in red robes on a white horse who struck Jing on the chest with his hand. Jing immediately fell from his horse and collapsed. After a long while, he gradually came to, as if sitting in mist. His family carried him home. At dawn he revived and said: 'I met King Yama in full. He said: "Why did you steal the monks' fruit? Why did you speak of the faults of the Three Jewels?"' Thereupon, faced with the indictment of offenses, he dared not utter a word. The king said, 'For the offense of stealing fruit, you ought to swallow four hundred and fifty iron pellets; only after enduring it for four years will it be exhausted. For the offense of speaking of faults, your tongue ought to be ploughed.' He was then released to return, and thus revived. Soon he saw for himself a person with two horns on his head holding an iron pellet, who bound Jing's hands and feet and made him eat them one by one. By-standers could not see the iron pellets; they only saw Jing open his mouth, glare with bulging eyes, his whole body fiery red, with hot vapor surging up from inside his throat, so scorching and stifling that none could approach him. Only after a whole day did he regain consciousness, saying: 'I have already swallowed more than a hundred pellets for one year.' If he did not have this sūtra, it would have been like this for four days. When he said the swallowing of pellets was finished, he immediately went to the two temples of Huichang and Huadu, devoting his sincerity to repentance. On the third day of the third month, he was again pursued by the previous envoys and taken to see the king. The king said, 'You slandered the Three Jewels; for your offense, your tongue should be ploughed.' Jing again saw two people pull out his tongue with tongs, making it appear several hundred feet long. He also saw two people, each holding a ploughshare blade, ploughing side-by-side upon it. Examining the case register, they then said: 'He once read the Lotus and the Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā; because of this, let him revive.' His relatives and others looked at his tongue, and it was as if cut by a knife; because he had read the two sūtras, it had not been severed. Later, whenever Jing recalled or spoke of it, he trembled in terror and wept. Consequently, he left home, taking the name Fayan, and practiced with double his usual vigor. He resided at Baima Temple in the Eastern Capital, and his end is not known. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 9.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2067.9.13) - [Next: 9.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2067.9.15) - [Up: 9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2067.9) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2067~en-mt.9.14) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [大唐內典錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2149.10.73) — Classical Chinese - [集神州三寶感通錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2106.3.59) — 道宣, Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2067.9.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2067.9.14) · Pramāṇa