[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) › [法華傳記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068) › 3.34 # 法華傳記 3.34 法華傳記 3.34 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068.3.34) 釋智越。姓鄭氏南陽人也。少懷離塵之志。父為求婚。方便祈止。長則勇幹清美。于時樂陽殿下統御荊州。徵任甚高。非其所欲。惟以情願出家。王感彼誠素。因遂夙心。剪落已後。隨方問道。仍到金陵。便值智者。北面請業。授以禪法。便深達五門。窮通六妙。戒行清白。律儀淳粹。又請法華萬有餘遍。瓶水自盈經之力也。學徒雖眾。其最居稱首。有臨海露山精舍。胡僧所造。巨有靈異。智者每臨。命越令影響之。晦迹已後。台嶺山眾一焉。是囑二十年間。詢詢善誘。無違遺寄。便為二眾依止。四部歸崇。姿容瑰偉。德感物情。頗存汲引。每於師忌。勅設千僧官齋。越以衣盋之餘。以充大施。隋文皇帝獻后崩日。設齋呪願。每獲百段。曾不固留。括州刺史鄭係伯。臨海鎮將楊神貴。師友義重。待遇不輕。大業十二年十一月二十三日寢疾。經旬右脇而臥。卒于國清舊房。春秋七十有四。臨終之時。山崩地動。境內道俗。咸所見聞。智者門徒極多。故敘其三數耳（續高僧傳第十七）。 > Shi Zhiyue's secular surname was Zheng; he was a native of Nanyang. When young he cherished the resolve to leave the dust \[of the world\]. His father sought a marriage for him, but he tactfully pleaded to stop it. As he grew up, he was brave, capable, pure, and handsome. At that time, His Highness the Prince of Leyang was governing Jingzhou and summoned him to a very high post, but it was not what he desired; his only heartfelt wish was to leave home. The Prince was moved by his simple sincerity and accordingly fulfilled his longstanding wish. After he was tonsured, he sought the Way in all directions, and proceeding to Jinling, he met the Wise One \[Zhiyi\]. Facing north, he requested instruction. \[Zhiyi\] taught him dhyāna methods, and he thereupon penetrated the five gates and thoroughly mastered the six wondrous \[doors\]. His precept conduct was pure, and his monastic comportment genuine and unalloyed. He also recited the Lotus Sūtra more than ten thousand times; that the water pitcher filled by itself was the power of the sūtra. Although the disciples were numerous, he ranked at their head. In Linhai was the Lushan Hermitage, built by a foreign monk, which was immensely endowed with numinous anomalies. Whenever the Wise One arrived, he commanded Yue to respond and harmonize with it. After \[Zhiyi\] hid his traces, the assembly on the ridge of Mount Tiantai was unified under him. Entrusted with this for twenty years, he patiently and skillfully guided them, never contravening what had been bequeathed to him. He thus became the refuge of the two assemblies \[of monks and nuns\], revered and honoured by the fourfold assembly. His demeanor was imposing, and his virtue moved the hearts of beings; he was quite devoted to attracting and guiding others. On every anniversary of his master's death, an imperial order decreed an official vegetarian feast for a thousand monks; Yue used what remained from his robes and bowl to provide grand gifts. On the day Empress Xian, consort of Emperor Wen of the Sui, died, he conducted a vegetarian feast and recited prayers of blessing; each time he received a hundred bolts \[of cloth\], but never retained them. Zheng Xibo, the governor of Kuazhou, and Yang Shenggui, the garrison commander of Linhai, regarded him with deep righteousness as teacher and friend, treating him with no light esteem. On the twenty-third day of the eleventh month in the twelfth year of the Daye era, he fell ill in bed. After ten days, lying on his right side, he passed away in his old room at Guoqing \[Temple\], at the age of seventy-four. At the time of his passing, mountains crumbled and the earth shook; the monastics and laity within the territory all saw and heard it. The Wise One had very many disciples, so only a few are narrated here (Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks, fascicle 17). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068.3.33) - [Next: 3.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068.3.35) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068~en-mt.3.34) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [續高僧傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2060.17.24) — 道宣, Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068.3.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068.3.34) · Pramāṇa