景德傳燈錄 2.32

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第二十三祖鶴勒那者（勒那梵語。鶴即華言。以尊者出世常感群鶴戀慕故名）月氏國人也。姓婆羅門。父千勝。母金光。以無子故禱于七佛。金幢即夢須彌山頂一神童持金環云我來也。覺而有孕。年七歲遊行聚落。覩民間淫祀乃入廟叱之曰。汝妄興禍福幻惑於人。歲費牲牢傷害斯甚。言訖。廟貌忽然而壞。由是鄉黨謂之聖子。年二十二出家。三十遇摩拏羅尊者付法眼藏。行化至中印度。彼國王名無畏海。崇信佛道。尊者為說正法。次王忽見二人緋素服拜尊者。王問曰。此何人也。師曰。此是日月天子。吾昔曾為說法故來禮耳。良久不見唯聞異香。王曰。日月國土總有多少。尊者曰。千釋迦佛所化世界。各有百億迷盧日月。我若廣說即不能盡。王聞忻然。時尊者演無上道度有緣眾。以上足龍子早夭。有兄師子。博通彊記事婆羅門。厥師既逝。弟復云亡。乃歸依于尊者。而問曰。我欲求道當何用心。尊者曰。汝欲求道無所用心。曰既無用心誰作佛事。尊者曰。汝若有用即非功德。汝若無作即是佛事。經云。我所作功德而無我所故。師子聞是言已即入佛慧。時尊者忽指東北問云。是何氣象。師子曰。我見氣如白虹貫乎天地。復有黑氣五道橫亘其中。尊者曰。其兆云何。曰莫可知矣。尊者曰。吾滅後五十年。北天竺國當有難起。嬰在汝身。吾將滅矣。今以法眼付囑於汝善自護持。乃說偈曰。

The twenty-third patriarch, Haklenayaśas (Leno is Sanskrit; 'crane' [he] is the Chinese term; because when the venerable one appeared in the world, flocks of cranes always longed for him with admiration, he was thus named), was a man from the country of the Yuezhi. His family was brahmin. His father was Qiansheng, and his mother was Jinguang. Being childless, they prayed to the seven Buddhas. Jinchuang then dreamed that atop Mount Sumeru a divine child holding a golden ring said, "I have come." Upon waking, she was pregnant. At the age of seven, walking through villages, he saw the excessive sacrifices of the common people, entered a shrine, and scolded them: "You falsely bring about misfortune and fortune, deluding people; every year you slaughter livestock, which brings great harm!" As soon as he spoke, the shrine suddenly collapsed. Because of this, his villagers called him the holy child. At the age of twenty-two, he went forth from home. At thirty, he met the venerable Manorhita, who transmitted to him the treasury of the Dharma eye. Traveling and transforming, he reached central India. The king of that country was named Wuweihai, who revered the Buddha Path. The venerable one preached the correct Dharma for him. Then the king suddenly saw two people in red and white clothes bowing to the venerable one. The king asked, "Who are these people?" The master said, "These are the gods of the sun and the moon. Formerly I preached the Dharma for them, which is why they have come to pay homage." After a short while, they were no longer seen, and only an extraordinary fragrance was smelled. The king asked, "How many realms of the sun and the moon are there in all?" The venerable one said, "In the worlds transformed by a thousand Śākyamuni Buddhas, each has a billion Meru suns and moons; if I were to explain it at length, it could not be exhausted." Hearing this, the king was delighted. At that time, the venerable one expounded the unsurpassed Path and liberated beings with karmic affinities. Because his senior disciple Longzi had died young, there was his elder brother Siṃha, who was widely learned, had a powerful memory, and served a brahmin. When his master died and his younger brother also passed away, he took refuge in the venerable one and asked: "I wish to seek the Path; how should I employ my mind?" The venerable one said: "If you wish to seek the Path, there is nowhere to employ your mind." He asked: "If there is no employing of the mind, who performs the Buddha work?" The venerable one said: "If you have an employment, that is not merit. If you are without action, that is the Buddha work. The sūtra says: 'The merit that I make has no "mine".'" Hearing these words, Siṃha entered the Buddha's wisdom. Then the venerable one suddenly pointed to the northeast and asked, "What omen is that?" Siṃha said, "I see a vapor like a white rainbow piercing heaven and earth, and there are five streaks of black vapor crossing through it." The venerable one said, "What does it portend?" He said, "It cannot be known." The venerable one said, "Fifty years after my extinction, there will be a disaster arising in northern India, falling upon your person. I am about to pass into extinction; now I entrust the Dharma eye to you, to guard and maintain well." He then spoke a verse: