[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) › 8.34 # 法華傳記 8.34 法華傳記 8.34 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [8.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068.8.34) 唐定州中山禪師釋修德者。不知氏族。苦節成性。守道山林。依華嚴及起信。安心結業。推念修禪。於永徽四年。歸誠方廣。因發大心。至精抄寫。故別於淨院。植諸樹。凡歷三年。兼之華藥。灌以香水。潔淨造紙。後別築淨臺。於上起屋。召善書人偽州王恭。別院齋戒沐浴淨衣焚香。布華懸諸幡蓋禮經懺悔。方昇座焉。下筆合香。舉筆吐氣。每日恒然精勤無怠。禪師躬自入淨運想。燒香筆翰之間。並專心自因修若是。迄乎終始。每寫一卷。施縑十疋。迄成一部。總施六百餘段。恭因發心。並皆不受勞誠竭慮筋力都盡。寫經纔畢。俄從永化德以經成。設齋慶集大眾。同清希心。禮見禪師。便於眾前。燒香散華。發弘誓願。纔開經藏。放大光明。周七十餘里照定州城。城中士女。並皆同見。中山齋眾。既覩希奇。得未曾有。投身宛轉悲嘷懺悔。禪師又勒石。寫涅槃法華經各一部。初移入龕之際。石涅槃法華。並放光明。滿十餘里。舉眾咸覩。感悟無涯。既有感應。利益何疑矣。 > Chan Master Shi Xiude of Zhongshan in Dingzhou under the Tang was of unknown lineage. Bitter austerities became his nature, and he kept to the Way in mountain forests. Relying on the Avataṃsaka and the Awakening of Faith, he settled his mind, bound his karmic practice, investigated his thoughts, and cultivated Chan. In the fourth year of the Yonghui reign era, he took refuge with sincerity in the Vaipulya teachings. Thereupon, conceiving the great aspiration, he copied them with utmost devotion. He specifically planted various trees in a pure courtyard over a period of three years, along with flowers and medicinal plants, and irrigated them with fragrant water to cleanly manufacture paper. Later, he separately constructed a pure terrace and erected a building on it. He summoned Wang Gong, a skilled calligrapher of the counterfeit prefecture. In a separate courtyard, Wang observed the fast, bathed, put on clean clothes, and burned incense; he scattered flowers, hung banners and canopies, and bowed to the sūtra with repentance before ascending the seat. As he lowered his brush, he held fragrant substances; as he lifted his brush, he exhaled away; every day he was constantly diligent and unremitting like this. The Chan master personally entered the pure chamber to direct his contemplation; between burning incense and handling the brushwork, he focused his mind entirely on his own cultivation in this way, from start to finish. For each fascicle copied, he gave ten bolts of fine silk, and when the entire sūtra was completed, he had given over six hundred rolls in total. Gong, inspired by this, would not accept any of it. Straining his sincerity and exhausting his thoughts, his physical strength was utterly spent; barely had the copying of the sūtra finished when he suddenly passed away. Xiude, because the sūtra was accomplished, held a vegetarian feast to celebrate and assemble the great assembly. Sharing a pure and aspiring mind, they bowed and had audience with the Chan master, who then, before the assembly, burned incense, scattered flowers, and made great vows. Barely had he opened the sūtra case when it emitted a great brilliance that extended for over seventy li, illuminating the city of Dingzhou. The gentlemen and women in the city all saw it together. When the assembly at the Zhongshan feast beheld this rare marvel, experiencing what they had never had before, they threw themselves down, weeping, wailing, and repenting. The Chan master also carved in stone one copy each of the Nirvāṇa Sūtra and the Lotus Sūtra. When they were first moved into the niche, both the stone Nirvāṇa and Lotus Sūtras emitted brilliance, filling more than ten li. The entire assembly beheld it, their moved awakening boundless. Since there was such sympathetic resonance, what doubt could there be of its benefits? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 8.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068.8.33) - [Next: 8.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068.8.35) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068.8) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068~en-mt.8.34) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [華嚴經傳記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2073.5.8) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068.8.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068.8.34) · Pramāṇa