[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) › 3.18 # 淨土往生傳 3.18 淨土往生傳 3.18 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2071.3.18) 釋守真。永興萬年人也。俗姓紀。漢詐帝信之鴻緒也。唐乾符中。曾祖堪從官于蜀。遂為成都人。真於冠年。游聖壽寺。見修進禪師立行謹介歎曰。吾捨此人則誰師也。乃釋冠帶事之。尋就從朗師。學起信論。性光師傳法界觀。並得其要。是後宣揚勝業四十餘年。始末開導。拳拳如一。凡講起信及法界觀七十餘過。以燈傳燈。用器投器。嗣于法者二十許人。開灌頂道場五遍。水陸道場二十餘會。僧尼從而請法者三千餘人。常於三更。輪結無量壽往生密印。五更輪結文殊五髻神呪。宋開寶三年仲夏五日。正輪結時自覺。身登無量壽國。舉目見佛。佛指池中蓮華曰。此華他日。為汝父母。汝宜守之。無使他日其萎焉。四年真謂弟子緣遇曰。如來不云。死生無常乎。吾之年也耄矣。汝之齒也暮矣。吾欲順俗。預設二塔可乎。遇曰。惟師之命。孰不為善。其年孟冬之五日矢工。仲冬之朔日徹勣。次日真召寺僧及弟子。告以六趣升沈之苦。萬業流輪之因。因令叢聲念彌陀佛。佛聲之止繼以贊頌。真於彌陀像前。俯伏念曰。願佛四十八願。度我有情於其願。願無遺其一焉。願畢又持香華。於諸堂殿。歷陳供養。其所願者如初。爾既而問曰。三更乎。弟子曰。已三更矣。真乃就座。斂氣恬然歸寂。 > Shi Shouzhen was a native of Wannian in Yongxing. His secular surname was Ji, and he was an illustrious descendant of Ji Xin, who had impersonated the Han emperor. During the Qianfu reign era of the Tang, his great-grandfather Kan served as an official in Shu, and so they became people of Chengdu. In his capping year, Zhen visited Shengshou Monastery, and seeing the Chan Master Xiujin's rigorous and upright conduct, sighed and said, "If I set aside this man, whom should I take as my teacher?" He then cast off his cap and sash to serve him. Soon after, he went to Master Conglang to study the Dacheng qixin lun, and to Master Xingguang to receive the contemplation of the realm of reality, mastering the essentials of both. After that, he propagated the supreme practice for more than forty years, guiding others from beginning to end with undivided earnestness. In total, he lectured on the Dacheng qixin lun and the contemplation of the realm of reality more than seventy times, transmitting the lamp with the lamp and pouring from vessel into vessel; more than twenty people succeeded to his Dharma. He established the abhiṣeka bodhimanda five times and the Water and Land Rite more than twenty times, and more than three thousand monks and nuns came to request the Dharma from him. He regularly formed the secret mudrā of rebirth of Amitāyus at the third watch, and recited the five-tuft dhāraṇī of Mañjuśrī at the fifth watch. On the fifth day of the mid-summer month in the third year of the Kaibao reign era of the Song, while he was forming the mudrā, he felt his body ascend to the Land of Amitāyus. Lifting his eyes, he saw the Buddha. The Buddha pointed to a lotus in the pond and said, "This flower shall be your parents on a future day. You should protect it and not let it wither on that day." In the fourth year, Zhen said to his disciple Yuanyu, "Does not the Tathāgata say that birth and death are impermanent? My years are already old, and your age is already advanced. I wish to follow worldly custom and prepare two stupas in advance; may we?" Yu said, "Whatever the master commands, how could it not be good?" On the fifth day of the first month of winter of that year, work began; on the first day of the second month of winter, the construction was completed. The next day, Zhen summoned the monks of the monastery and his disciples, and instructed them on the suffering of rising and sinking in the six destinies and the causes of revolving through the myriad karmas. He then had them recite the name of Amitābha Buddha in a chorus; when the sound of the Buddha's name stopped, it was followed by praises and verses. Before the image of Amitābha, Zhen bowed low and prayed, "I vow that the Buddha's forty-eight vows will deliver us sentient beings; among those vows, may not a single one be left out!" When the vows were finished, he again held incense and flowers, going through the various halls and shrines to lay out offerings, his vows being just as before. Shortly afterward, he asked, "Is it the third watch?" A disciple said, "It is already the third watch." Zhen then went to his seat, gathered his breath, and calmly returned to quiescence. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2071.3.17) - [Next: 3.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2071.3.19) - [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.3.18) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2071.3.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2071.3.18) · Pramāṇa