[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) › [景德傳燈錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076) › 1.119 # 景德傳燈錄 1.119 景德傳燈錄 1.119 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.119](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.1.119) 第十四祖龍樹尊者。西天竺國人也。亦名龍勝。始於毘羅尊者得法。後至南印度。彼國之人多信福業。聞尊者為說妙法遞相謂曰。人有福業世間第一。徒言佛信誰能覩之。尊者曰。汝欲見佛性先須除我慢。彼人曰。佛性大小。尊者曰。非大非小非廣非狹。無福無報不死不生。彼聞理勝悉迴初心。尊者復於座上現自在身如滿月輪。一切眾唯聞法音不覩師相。彼眾中有長者子。名迦那提婆。謂眾曰。識此相否。眾曰。目所未覩安能辨識。提婆曰。此是尊者現佛性體相以示我等。何以知之。蓋以。無相三昧形如滿月。佛性之義廓然虛明。言訖。輪相即隱復居本座。而說偈言。 > The fourteenth patriarch, the Venerable Nāgārjuna, was a person of the land of Western India. He was also called Nāgajaya (Longsheng). He first attained the Dharma from the Venerable \[Kapi\]mimala. Later he went to Southern India. The people of that country mostly believed in the karmic merit of fortune. Hearing the Venerable preaching the wondrous Dharma, they said to one another, "When a person possesses the karmic merit of fortune, it is foremost in the world. Merely speaking of Buddha, who can see it?" The Venerable said, "If you wish to see the Buddha-nature, you must first eliminate arrogance." Those people said, "Is Buddha-nature large or small?" The Venerable said, "It is neither large nor small, neither broad nor narrow; it has neither fortune nor retribution, neither dying nor being born." Hearing this superior principle, they all turned their initial minds around. The Venerable then manifested an unobstructed body on his seat like the disk of the full moon. The entire assembly only heard the sound of the Dharma and did not see the master's physical form. In that assembly there was the son of an elder named Kāṇadeva. He said to the assembly, "Do you recognize this sign?" The assembly said, "Our eyes have never seen it; how could we distinguish and recognize it?" Deva said, "This is the Venerable manifesting the substance and sign of Buddha-nature to show us. How is this known? Because the formless samādhi has a shape like the full moon, and the meaning of Buddha-nature is vast, empty, and luminous." When he finished speaking, the circular sign disappeared, and \[the Venerable\] sat on his original seat again, speaking a verse: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.118](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.1.118) - [Next: 1.120](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.1.120) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076~en-mt.1.119) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.1.119](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.1.119) · Pramāṇa