[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) › 6.4 # 法華傳記 6.4 法華傳記 6.4 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068.6.4) 百濟沙門釋發正。梁天監中。負笈西渡。尋師學道。頗解義趣。亦修精進。在梁三十餘年。不能頓忘桑梓。歸本土發正自道聞他說。越州界山有道場。稱曰觀音。有觀音堵室故往視之。欀椽爛盡。而堵牆獨存之。尚有二道人。相要契入山。一人欲誦華嚴經。一人欲誦法華經。各據一谷。策作堵室。其誦華嚴者。期月可畢。心疑其伴。得幾就往候之。曾無一卷。其人語曰。期已將盡。糧食欲絕。宜及至期竟之。若不能念誦一部。正可誦觀世音經也。便還其室。於是此人心自悲痛。宿因鈍根。乃至心讀誦。晝夜匪懈。諳得略半。後數日。其人復來者為此人以實告之。其人語曰。我已誦華嚴矣。奈何如此觀世音之初。況逕兩三日而不諳乎。我若捨汝而去。則負所要。若待汝竟精食欲盡。既於三日不竟。理不得相待耳。將以明復來者矣。子其免云。此人至到悲痛倍前。至心誦念。纔得竟畢。明旦其人復來者語曰。如此觀世音之初。尚不能誦。無可奈何。我時捨汝而去也。此人跪曰。昨暮纔得竟耳。於是其人大喜。欲以相試。乃坐床誦之。三十卷經。一無遺落。次復此人上床誦之。始得發聲。即於空中。雨種種華香。華溢堵室。香聞遍谷。氣氳滿天。不可勝計。於是誦華嚴者。即下地叩頭。頭面流血。懺悔謝過。事畢欲別去。此人止曰。常有一老翁饋我食。子可少待與。久久不來。相到與者。此人欲汲水。如向老翁擔食參休於草下。此人怪而問曰。我伴適來。望得共食。有何事竄伏不饋。翁答。彼人者輕我若此。豈忍見乎。於是始知。是觀世音菩薩。即五體投地。禮拜甚至。須臾仰視。便失所在。此人所𮚇堵牆至今猶存哉。發正親所見焉。 > The Baekje śramaṇa Shi Fazheng, during the Tianjian reign of the Liang dynasty, carried his book-box and crossed westward \[to China\], seeking teachers to study the Way. He understood the doctrinal purport quite well and also practiced with vigor. After staying in the Liang for more than thirty years, unable to suddenly forget his homeland, he returned to his native land. Fazheng personally recounted that he heard from others that in the boundary mountains of Yuezhou there was a bodhimaṇḍa called Guanyin, where there was an earthen hut of Guanyin. Hence he went to see it. The rafters were completely rotted away, and only the earthen wall remained. There were still two men of the Way who agreed together to enter the mountain. One wished to chant the Avataṃsaka-sūtra, and one wished to chant the Lotus Sūtra. Each occupied a ravine and built an earthen hut. The one who chanted the Avataṃsaka was able to finish in a month. He wondered about his companion, how much he had attained, and went to visit him, but he had not \[memorized\] even a single scroll. That man said to him: "The deadline is nearly exhausted and provisions are about to run out. You should complete it by the deadline. If you cannot recite the entire work, you can just chant the Avalokiteśvara Sūtra." He then returned to his hut. Thereupon this man felt sorrow and pain in his heart at his dull faculties due to past karma, and with utmost mind read and chanted, without resting day or night. He committed about half to memory. Several days later, that man came again. This man told him the truth. That man said: "I have already chanted the Avataṃsaka. How can it be that with just this beginning of the Avalokiteśvara \[Chapter\], after two or three days, you still have not committed it to memory? If I abandon you and leave, I would betray our agreement; if I wait for you to finish, the food will run out. Since you have not finished in three days, in principle I cannot wait for you. I will come again tomorrow. You must do your utmost." This man reached a sorrow and pain redoubled beyond before, and with utmost mind chanted and recited, just managing to finish. The next morning, that man came again and said: "If you still cannot recite even this beginning of the Avalokiteśvara \[Chapter\], there is nothing to be done; I must now leave you and go." This man knelt and said: "Just last night I managed to finish." Thereupon that man was overjoyed. Wishing to test each other, he sat on the couch and chanted it; across thirty scrolls of the scripture, not a single character was omitted. Next, this man went up on the couch to chant it; no sooner had he raised his voice than from the air rained various flowers and incense. Flowers overflowed the earthen hut, incense was smelled throughout the entire ravine, and fragrant vapor filled the sky beyond count. Thereupon the chanter of the Avataṃsaka stepped down to the ground and prostrated, his head and face bleeding, repenting and acknowledging his fault. The matter concluded, he was about to bid farewell and leave. This man stopped him, saying: "An old man regularly brings me food. You may wait a little while and share it." After a long time he did not come to provide it. This man went to fetch water and saw the old man carrying food resting beneath the grass. This man wondered and asked: "My companion has just arrived, and I hoped to eat together. What matter caused you to conceal yourself and not deliver it?" The old man replied: "That man looked down on me in such a way, how could I bear to see him?" Thereupon he first knew that this was Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva. He immediately threw his five limbs to the ground and bowed with the utmost reverence. In an instant, looking up, he had lost his whereabouts. The earthen wall built by this man still remains today. Fazheng personally saw it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068.6.3) - [Next: 6.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068.6.5) - [Up: 6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068.6) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068~en-mt.6.4) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068.6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068.6.4) · Pramāṇa