[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) › 3.13 # 淨土往生傳 3.13 淨土往生傳 3.13 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2071.3.13) 釋大行。不原其姓。唐乾符中。巢賊𡨥掠。民不安業。乃於泰山。結草為衣。採木為食。行法華普賢懺積三年。精誠既極。且感普賢現身。行自瞻覩彌慶夙。因由是策勵諸念。念如來之法。尚存念己之修未證。早暮激切。迨忘飲食。末年姑以佛道所修。未專一境。又以幻身無常。必歸磨滅。未知來世復何受生。遂入大藏。追誠叩意。以陳露曰。願我信心取彼經。文隨其所得。即永受持。乃縱其意。抽而取之。其所得者。乃彌陀經。日夜誦持。絡繹安養。未三七日。俄於半夜。覩琉璃地瑩淨在前。行覺心眼洞明。見彌陀佛與觀音勢至無數化佛。于時遠近相傳。事聞僖宗皇帝。帝詔入內。問其所見。行具對之。帝曰。此精進之致然也。下勅賜號常精進菩薩。仍賜爵為開國公焉。後一年得疾。見琉璃地復現于前。行曰。吾無觀想。而琉璃地復現。豈於安養無緣哉。即日示滅于所居之禪室。 > Shi Daxing's surname cannot be traced. During the Qianfu era of the Tang, the bandit \[Huang\] Chao raided and plundered, and the people could not rest peacefully in their occupations. Thereupon, at Mount Tai, Daxing wove grass for clothing and gathered trees for food, practicing the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka and Samantabhadra repentance for a cumulative three years. When his sincere devotion reached the utmost, it stimulated Samantabhadra to manifest his physical form. Daxing personally gazed upon him, feeling all the more joyful over his past causes. Thereupon he spurred on his various thoughts, reflecting that the Tathāgata's Dharma still remains, yet his own cultivation was not yet realized; morning and evening he was intense and earnest, to the point of forgetting to eat and drink. In his later years, he tentatively considered that the cultivation of the Buddha-way was not focused on a single object, and also that this illusory body was impermanent and would certainly return to extinction, not knowing what rebirth he would receive in a future life. He then entered the Great Canon, pursuing sincerity and knocking his heart, openly declaring: 'May I, with a faithful mind, select a scripture text, and according to what is obtained, eternally accept and uphold it.' Thereupon, letting his mind go, he drew and took one; that which he obtained was the Amitābha Sūtra. Day and night he chanted and upheld it, continuously directing his thoughts to Anyang. Before three seven-day periods had passed, suddenly at midnight, he saw lapis lazuli ground, pure and radiant, before him. Daxing felt the eyes of his mind become thoroughly enlightened, seeing Amitābha together with Avalokiteśvara, Mahāsthāmaprāpta, and countless transformation Buddhas. At that time the news spread near and far, and the matter reached the ears of Emperor Xizong. The Emperor summoned him into the palace and questioned him about what he had seen; Daxing answered everything in full. The Emperor said: 'This is the result brought about by energetic progress.' An imperial decree was issued bestowing the title 'Bodhisattva of Constant Energetic Progress' and granting him the nobility title of Duke Founding the State. One year later he contracted an illness and saw the lapis lazuli ground reappear before him. Daxing said: 'I have no visualization, yet the lapis lazuli ground reappears; how could I lack affinity with Anyang?' That very day, he manifested extinction in the meditation room where he resided. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2071.3.12) - [Next: 3.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2071.3.14) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2071.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2071~en-mt.3.13) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2071.3.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2071.3.13) · Pramāṇa