[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) › [淨土往生傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2071) › 1.23 # 淨土往生傳 1.23 淨土往生傳 1.23 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2071.1.23) 釋道珍。不原其氏。梁天監中。憩錫于廬山。聞昔遠公與慧持曇順等。結想于淨土。心頗慕之。然其所慕。或就或否。猶豫然不克專其念。異時夢中。見浮海者數十人。櫓舟前邁。珍且問之。對曰將適彌陀國也。珍曰。願將隨適。豈相拒耶。曰以子之意。孰敢拒之。但一日之修功超永劫。彌陀之經存矣。而子未誦之。如之何。且求適也。珍之夢覺。嗟歎愧悚。若於勝法有差焉。遂尋其經誦之。晨夕相繼。間無容髮。後二年前安居之二日。堂虛戶扃。有捧銀臺而至者曰。法師報盡當陞此臺。又曰。以師之功。當得金臺。奈何始心猶豫。故止此耳。珍泣謝曰。果能越三界出五苦。則珍也見佛之基有漸。奚必金臺為也。然珍少言語多貶損。雖得其事。未甞矜於人。人亦不得而知。惟珍自記數百字。藏之于座隅經函。其亡之夕。所居之山崖壑萬疊。如烈火千炬交相輝爍。鄉民餘百家。望之大為驚怪。及旦咸即其山。問之寺僧。對以珍亡。乃知。其所見者皆珍往生嘉祥焉。異日於珍經函。獲其所記。因得廣之。以悟來者。 > Shi Daozhen: his family origins are unknown. During the Tianjian era of the Liang dynasty, he rested his staff at Mount Lu. Hearing that in former times Lord \[Hui\]yuan, along with Huiduan, Danshun, and others, had fixed their thoughts on the Pure Land, his heart longed for it; yet in his yearning, he would sometimes pursue it and sometimes not, hesitating and unable to concentrate his mindfulness. Later, he saw in a dream several tens of people floating upon the sea, rowing their boat forward. Daozhen asked them \[where they were going\], and they replied: "We are going to the Land of Amitābha." Daozhen said: "I wish to go with you; would you reject me?" They replied: "With your wish, who would dare reject you? But the cultivation of a single day surpasses kalpas of effort. The sūtra of Amitābha exists, yet you have not recited it; how can you seek to go?" When Daozhen awoke from the dream, he sighed with shame and dread, as if he had fallen short of the supreme Dharma. He then sought out the sūtra and recited it day and night continuously, without the breadth of a hair's interruption. Two years later, on the second day before the summer retreat, when the hall was empty and the doors bolted, someone arrived holding a silver dais and said: "Dharma Master, your retribution is exhausted; you should ascend this dais." He also said: "With your merit, Master, you should have obtained a golden dais. But because your initial mind hesitated, you must stop at this." Daozhen wept and gave thanks: "If I can indeed cross beyond the three realms and escape the five sufferings, then this gradual foundation for seeing the Buddha will suffice for me, Daozhen; why must it be a golden dais?" Daozhen spoke little and disparaged himself; though he attained these matters, he never boasted of them to others, nor did anyone know of them. Daozhen merely recorded several hundred words himself and hid them in a scripture box by the corner of his seat. On the night of his death, the myriad ridges and ravines of the mountain where he lived blazed and shone as if illuminated by a thousand flaming torches. More than a hundred local households saw it and were greatly astonished. At dawn, they all went to the mountain and questioned the monastery monks, who replied that Daozhen had passed away. Only then did they know that what they had seen were all auspicious signs of Daozhen's rebirth in the Pure Land. Later, his record was found in Daozhen's scripture box, and it was thus made widely known to awaken future generations. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2071.1.22) - [Next: 1.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2071.1.24) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2071.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2071~en-mt.1.23) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [樂邦文類](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1969a.3.123) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2071.1.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2071.1.23) · Pramāṇa