[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) › [華嚴經傳記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2073) › 4.15 # 華嚴經傳記 4.15 華嚴經傳記 4.15 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2073.4.15) 比丘尼無量。俗姓閔氏。京兆長安人也。家風修善。闔門蔬食。竝誦經典。無輟晨昏。母趙氏初夢。一梵僧持二金果。授而謂之曰。與爾良種。宜善護持。因有娠焉。遂誕無量。性戒天全。情欣出俗。年十一。其姊教誦般若觀音等經。略無開悟。無量深自慚恥。後改授華嚴。持卷披文。有如宿習。日誦五紙。以自勉勗。未盈三月。二帙便了。後因勤勵損心。更嬰他疾。停誦累年。情深悔恨。遂於佛前。焚香立願。誓持華嚴行菩薩道。因即瘳愈。所祈獲遂。諷誦忘疲。年甫十八。一部都畢。溫習積稔。尤更精進。至永淳二年有詔度人。其家男女五人出俗。無量住道德寺。弟慧嵩年十四。又誦涅槃一部。住慈悲寺。二果之夢。將非其事乎。自外三人各誦諸經。數百餘紙。道俗咸共奇之。以為希有。無量既入道。已後志節彌堅。每誦華嚴。三日一遍。以為恒業。盡受具戒。苦行愈殷。不服繒纊。唯衣布疊。不受僧利。不食僧厨。六時禮懺。三業無替。加以立性溫和。志懷慈愛。每見諸貧病。莫不深思悲慜。有道之徒咸歎曰。雖是女人。斯則丈夫所難及也。 > The nun Wuliang, whose secular surname was Min, was a native of Chang'an in Jingzhao. Her family tradition was to cultivate the good; the entire household ate a vegetarian diet and recited the scriptures together without ceasing morning or evening. Her mother, Lady Zhao, initially dreamed of an Indian monk holding two golden fruits, who handed them to her and said, 'I give you good seeds; you should guard them well.' She thereupon became pregnant and gave birth to Wuliang. Her moral nature was naturally complete, and her heart rejoiced in leaving the secular world. When she was eleven years old, her elder sister taught her to recite scriptures such as the Prajñā and Guanyin sūtras, but she had virtually no awakening, which left Wuliang deeply ashamed. Later, she was switched to being taught the Avataṃsaka Sūtra; holding the scrolls and opening the text, it was as if she had practiced it in past lives. She recited five sheets a day to encourage herself, and in less than three months she had mastered two wrappers. Later, due to straining her mind through diligent effort, she contracted another illness and stopped reciting for several years, feeling profound remorse and regret. Thereupon, before the Buddha, she burned incense and made a vow, swearing to uphold the Avataṃsaka Sūtra and practice the bodhisattva path; she immediately recovered, her prayer fulfilled. Chanting without fatigue, when she was just eighteen she completed the entire work. She reviewed it over the passing years, becoming all the more diligent. In the second year of the Yongchun reign era, an edict was issued to ordain people, and five men and women of her family left the secular world. Wuliang resided at Daodesi, and her younger brother Huisong, aged fourteen, who had also recited the entire Nirvāṇa Sūtra, resided at Cibeisi. Was this not the fulfillment of the dream of the two fruits? The other three each recited various scriptures of more than several hundred sheets, and both monastics and laypeople marvelled at it, regarding it as exceedingly rare. After Wuliang entered the Way, her determination grew ever firmer. She always recited the Avataṃsaka Sūtra once every three days as her constant practice. Having received full ordination, her ascetic practice became all the more earnest: she wore no silks or floss, dressed only in cotton cloth, accepted no monastic emoluments, and ate nothing from the monastic kitchen. She bowed and repented throughout the six periods of the day, never slacking in the three modes of action. In addition, she was of a gentle nature and harbored loving-kindness in her heart; whenever she saw the poor and the sick, she was always deeply moved to pity. Those of the Way all sighed in admiration, saying, 'Though she is a woman, this is something that even a great man could hardly match.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2073.4.14) - [Next: 4.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2073.4.16) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2073.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2073~en-mt.4.15) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2073.4.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2073.4.15) · Pramāṇa