景德傳燈錄 1.39

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釋迦牟尼佛（賢劫第四尊）姓剎利。父淨飯天。母大清淨妙。位登補處生兜率天上。名曰勝善天人。亦名護明大士。度諸天眾說補處行。亦於十方界中現身說法。普耀經云。佛初生剎利王家。放大智光明照十方世界。地涌金蓮華自然捧雙足。東西及南北各行於七步。分手指天地作師子吼聲。上下及四維無能尊我者。即周昭王二十四年甲寅歲四月八日也。至四十二年二月八日。年十九欲求出家。而自念言。當復何遇。即於四門遊觀見四等事。心有悲喜而作思惟。此老病死終可厭離。於是夜子時有一天人。名曰淨居。於窓牖中叉手白太子言。出家時至可去矣。太子聞已心生歡喜。即逾城而去。於檀特山中修道。始於阿藍迦藍處。三年學不用處定。知非便捨。復至欝頭藍弗處。三年學非非想定。知非亦捨。又至象頭山同諸外道。日食麻麥經于六年。故經云。以無心意無授行而悉摧伏諸外道。先歷試邪法示諸方便發諸異見令至菩提。故普集經云。菩薩於二月八日明星出時。成佛號天人師。時年三十矣。即穆王三年癸未歲也。既而於鹿野苑中。為憍陳如等五人轉四諦法輪而論道果。說法住世四十九年。後告弟子摩訶迦葉。吾以清淨法眼涅槃妙心實相無相微妙正法將付於汝。汝當護持。并勅阿難副貳傳化無令斷絕。而說偈言。

Śākyamuni Buddha (the fourth Honoured One of the Bhadrakalpa) was of the Kṣatriya caste. His father was King Śuddhodana, his mother was Māyā. Having attained the stage of succeeding to Buddhahood, he was born in Tuṣita Heaven, where he was named the Supremely Virtuous Deva, and also named the Great Being Prabhāpāla. He delivered the hosts of devas, expounding the practices of succession to Buddhahood, and also manifested bodies throughout the realms of the ten directions to preach the Dharma. The Lalitavistara-sūtra states: When the Buddha was first born into the royal Kṣatriya family, he emitted the light of great wisdom, illuminating the worlds of the ten directions. Golden lotus flowers welled up from the earth, naturally holding up both his feet. He walked seven steps in each direction—east, west, south, and north. Pointing with his hands to heaven and earth, he made the lion's roar: 'Above, below, and in the four cardinal directions, none can surpass me.' This was on the eighth day of the fourth month in the twenty-fourth year of King Zhao of the Zhou, a jiayin year. By the forty-second year, on the eighth day of the second month, when he was nineteen years old, he wished to leave home. He thought to himself: 'What shall I encounter next?' Then, going on an excursion through the four gates, he saw the four kinds of occurrences. With both sorrow and joy in his heart, he reflected: 'This old age, sickness, and death are ultimately to be reviled and abandoned.' At the midnight hour of that night, a deva named Śuddhāvāsa clasped his hands through the window and said to the crown prince: 'The time to leave home has arrived; you may go.' Having heard this, the prince was filled with joy. He immediately leaped over the city wall and departed. He cultivated the Way in Mount Daṇḍaka. He began under Ārāḍa Kālāma, studying for three years the samādhi of nothingness; knowing it was not the truth, he abandoned it. He then went to Udraka Rāmaputra, studying for three years the samādhi of neither perception nor non-perception; knowing it was also not the truth, he abandoned it as well. He then went to Mount Gayāśīrṣa together with various non-Buddhists, eating one hemp seed and one grain of wheat a day for six years. Thus the sūtra says: 'By having no mental intention and no received practice, he completely subdued all non-Buddhists.' He had first tested the heterodox teachings to demonstrate skillful means and evoke diverse views, leading them to bodhi. Thus the Samuccaya-sūtra states: On the eighth day of the second month, when the morning star appeared, the Bodhisattva attained Buddhahood and was called the Teacher of Gods and Humans. He was then thirty years old; this was the third year of King Mu, a guiwei year. Thereafter, in the Deer Park, he turned the Dharma wheel of the Four Noble Truths for Kaundinya and the other five men, discussing the fruits of the path. He preached the Dharma and remained in the world for forty-nine years. Later, he addressed his disciple Mahākāśyapa: 'I now entrust to you the pure Dharma eye, the wondrous mind of nirvāṇa, the subtle and wondrous correct Dharma of the signless true mark. You must protect and uphold it, and also instruct Ānanda to assist as deputy in transmitting and transforming, so that it may never be cut off.' And he spoke this verse: