[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) › 16.16 # 景德傳燈錄 16.16 景德傳燈錄 16.16 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [16.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.16.16) 潭州雲蓋山志元號圓淨大師。遊方時。問雲居曰。志元不奈何時如何。雲居曰。只為闍梨功力不到處。師不禮拜而退。遂參石霜。亦如前問石霜曰。非但闍梨老僧亦不奈何。師曰。和尚為什麼不奈何。石霜曰。老僧若奈何拈過汝不奈何（別有問答。石霜章出之）有僧問如何是佛。師曰。黃面底是。曰如何是法。師曰。藏裏是問然燈未出時如何。師曰。昧不得。問蛇子為什麼吞蛇師。師曰。通身色不同。問如何是衲僧。師曰。參尋訪道。 > Zhiyuan of Mount Yunggai in Tanzhou was titled Great Master Yuanjing. While travelling on pilgrimage, he asked Yunju, "What about when Zhiyuan cannot do anything about it?" Yunju said, "It is only because of where your efforts, Ācārya, do not reach." The master withdrew without bowing. He then visited Shishuang and asked as before. Shishuang said, "Not only you, Ācārya; this old monk also cannot do anything about it." The master said, "Why can the Upādhyāya not do anything about it?" Shishuang said, "If this old monk could do something about it, I would have taken away your inability to do anything about it." (There was another dialogue; it appears in the chapter on Shishuang.) A monk asked, "What is the Buddha?" The master said, "The yellow-faced one is it." He said, "What is the Dharma?" The master said, "What is in the canon is it." He asked, "How was it before Dīpaṃkara appeared?" The master said, "It cannot be obscured." He asked, "Why does the snake swallow the snake charmer?" The master said, "The color throughout the body is not the same." He asked, "What is a patch-robed monk?" The master said, "Searching and inquiring, visiting the Way." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 16.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.16.15) - [Next: 16.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.16.17) - [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.16.16) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.16.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.16.16) · Pramāṇa