[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) › 16.12 # 景德傳燈錄 16.12 景德傳燈錄 16.12 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [16.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.16.12) 潭州大光山居誨禪師京兆人也。姓王氏。初造于石霜之室。函丈請益經二載。又令主北塔。麻衣草屨殆忘身意。一日石霜將試其所得。垂問曰。國家每年放舉人及第。朝門還得拜也無。師曰。有人不求進。曰憑何。師曰。且不為名。石霜又因疾問曰。除却今日別更有時也無。師曰。渠亦不道今日是。石霜甚然之。如是徵詰數四醻對無爽。盤桓二十餘祀。瀏陽信士胡公請居大光山提唱宗致。有僧問。只如達磨是祖否。師曰。不是祖。僧曰。既不是祖又來作什麼。師曰。為汝不薦祖。僧曰。薦後如何。師曰。方知不是祖。問混沌未分時如何。師曰。時教阿誰敘。師又曰。一代時教只是收拾一代時人。直饒剝徹底。也只是成得箇了事人。汝不可便將當却衲衣下事。所以道。四十九年明不盡。四十九年標不起。凡示學徒大要如此。唐天復三年癸亥九月三日歸寂。壽六十有七。 > Chan Master Juhui of Mount Daguang in Tanzhou was a native of Jingzhao surnamed Wang. He first came to Shishuang's room, requesting instruction in the abbot's quarters for two years. He was then ordered to take charge of the Northern Pagoda. In hemp clothes and straw sandals, he almost forgot body and mind. One day Shishuang, wishing to test what he had attained, posed a question: "Every year the state passes scholars in the examinations; do they still get to bow before the court gates?" The master said, "There is someone who does not seek advancement." Shishuang said, "Relying on what?" The master said, "For the moment, not for fame." Shishuang also asked because of an illness, "Apart from today, is there any other time?" The master said, "He also does not say today is it." Shishuang thoroughly approved. Interrogated and tested four or five times like this, his answers were never amiss. He stayed for more than twenty years. Upāsaka Hu of Liuyang invited him to reside on Mount Daguang to expound the tenets of the school. A monk asked, "Just as Bodhidharma is an ancestor, is he or is he not?" The master said, "He is not an ancestor." The monk said, "Since he is not an ancestor, what did he come for?" The master said, "Because you do not recognize the ancestor." The monk said, "What about after recognizing him?" The master said, "Only then will you know he is not an ancestor." He asked, "How was it before chaos had divided?" The master said, "Who could the teachings of the time describe?" The master also said, "The teachings of a whole lifetime only take care of the people of that generation. Even if you peel away to the very bottom, you merely turn out to be someone who has finished the matter. You must not simply take that as the matter beneath the patch-robe. Therefore it is said: 'Forty-nine years could not clarify it; forty-nine years could not set it forth.' In general, his instructions to students were mostly like this." On the third day of the ninth month in the third year of the Tianfu reign of the Tang (a guihai year, 903 CE), he returned to stillness at the age of sixty-seven. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 16.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.16.11) - [Next: 16.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.16.13) - [Up: 16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.16) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076~en-mt.16.12) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.16.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.16.12) · Pramāṇa