[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) › 5.9 # 華嚴經傳記 5.9 華嚴經傳記 5.9 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [5.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2073.5.9) 處士孫思邈。雍州永安人也。神彩高遠。儀貌魁梧。身長七尺。眉目疎朗。然學該內外。尤閑醫藥。陰陽術數星曆卜筮。無不該通。善養性好服食。嘗服流珠丹及雲母紛。肌膚光潤。齒髮不虧。耆老相傳云。百餘歲視其形狀。如年七八十許。義寧元年高祖。起義并州時。邈在境內。高祖知其宏達。以禮待之。命為軍頭。任之四品。固辭不受。後歷遊諸處。不恒所居。隨時利物。專以醫方。為事有來請問。無不拯療。常勸道俗諸人。寫華嚴經七百五十餘部。上元儀鳳之年。居長安萬年二縣之境。嘗與人談話。說齊魏人物及洛陽故都。城中朝士。并寺宇眾僧。宛然目擊。及將更問。便即不言。嘗撰古今名醫妙術。號曰孫氏千金方。凡六十卷。備窮時用。進上高祖。高祖賞以束帛。將授榮班。苦辭不受。時召入內。旬月不出待詔禁中。甚見優竉。帝嘗縱容顧問。修何功德。為最佳耶。邈對曰。天皇何不讀華嚴經。帝問何故。邈曰。天皇大人。須讀大典。譬如寶器函蓋宜相稱耳。帝曰。若論大經。近者玄奘法師所譯大般若凡六百卷。寧不大乎。邈曰。般若空宗。乃華嚴經中。枝條出矣。帝深信之。永淳前卒。邈有子曰行真又名元一。貞正該博。強記洽聞。深思法要。迴向一乘。繼習父風。亦以華嚴為業。知名當代。實為高信士焉。 > Retired Scholar Sun Simiao was a native of Yong'an in Yongzhou. His spiritual radiance was lofty and far-reaching, and his deportment was stalwart. He stood seven feet tall, with clear, wide-set eyebrows and eyes. His learning encompassed both internal and external treatises, and he was especially adept in medicine. The arts of yin and yang, calculation, astrology, calendar-making, and divination were all thoroughly understood by him. Good at nourishing nature and fond of ingesting alchemical substances, he once took cinnabar pills of flowing pearl and mica powder; his skin remained smooth and lustrous, and his teeth and hair did not deteriorate. Elders handed down the saying that he was over a hundred years old, yet looking at his appearance he seemed only about seventy or eighty. In the first year of Yining, when Gaozu rose in rebellion in Bingzhou, Simiao was within the borders. Gaozu, knowing his far-reaching mastery, treated him with courtesy, appointing him a military commander and conferring upon him a fourth-rank post, which he steadfastly declined and did not accept. Later he wandered through various places, having no permanent dwelling, benefiting beings according to the times and making medical prescriptions his sole affair; whenever anyone came to consult him, there was none he did not heal and rescue. He often exhorted both monastic and lay people to copy more than seven hundred and fifty sets of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra. During the Shangyuan and Yifeng eras, he resided in the border area of Wannian and Chang'an counties. He once conversed with people, speaking of figures from the Qi and Wei and the old capital of Luoyang, describing the courtiers in the city and the monastics in the temples as vividly as if he had seen them with his own eyes; yet when they were about to question him further, he would fall silent. He once compiled the wondrous arts of famous physicians ancient and modern into a work entitled Master Sun's Qianjin fang, totaling sixty fascicles, which completely exhausted practical uses of the time, and presented it to the emperor. Gaozu rewarded him with bundles of silk and was about to grant him an honorable official rank, which he bitterly declined and would not accept. He was frequently summoned into the inner palace, staying for months without coming out to await orders in the forbidden quarters, and was treated with extreme favor. The Emperor once casually asked him: 'What merit is the very best to cultivate?' Simiao replied: 'Why does the Heavenly Emperor not read the Avataṃsaka Sūtra?' The Emperor asked why. Simiao said: 'The great personage of a Heavenly Emperor must read a great scripture. It is like a precious vessel and its lid; they ought to match each other.' The Emperor said: 'If we speak of great scriptures, recently the Great Prajñā translated by Dharma Master Xuanzang totals six hundred fascicles. Is that not great?' Simiao said: 'The Prajñā school of emptiness is but a branch that has emerged from within the Avataṃsaka Sūtra.' The Emperor placed deep faith in this. Simiao died before the Yongchun era. Simiao had a son named Xingzhen, also named Yuanyi, who was upright, broad-minded, possessing a strong memory and wide learning. He contemplated the essentials of the Dharma deeply, dedicated his merit toward the One Vehicle, continued in his father's style, and also took the Avataṃsaka as his vocation, becoming famous in his time and truly proving to be a layman of lofty faith. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 5.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2073.5.8) - [Next: 5.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2073.5.10) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2073.5) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2073~en-mt.5.9) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2073.5.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2073.5.9) · Pramāṇa