景德傳燈錄 30.55

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同住道人七十餘。共辭城郭樂山居。身如寒木心牙絕。不話唐言休梵書。心期盡處身雖喪。如來弟子沙門樣。深信共崇鉢塔成（涅槃經云。如來之身。已於無量阿僧祇劫。不受飲食。為諸聲聞說。先受二牧牛女乳糜。故本行經云。菩薩將往道樹。時有天人告善生神王二女。一名難陀。華言喜。二名婆羅。華言昌。汝可最初施食。於是二女。以乳烹糜。其釜上現種種瑞相。乃用鉢盛奉獻。菩薩食已。將其鉢擲向尼連河中。天帝釋收歸天上。建塔安置供養。故名鉢塔。此天上四塔之一也。四塔者。一髮塔。二箭塔。三鉢塔。四牙塔。人間亦有四塔。一如來生處塔。二如來成道處塔。三如來轉法輪處塔。四如來涅槃處塔）。巍巍置在青山掌。觀夫參道不虛然。脫去形骸甚高尚。從來不說今朝事。暗裏埋頭隱玄暢。不留蹤迹異人間。深妙神光飽明亮。

A fellow person of the Way for more than seventy years; / Together leaving the city walls behind, delighting in mountain dwelling. / Body like cold wood, mental sprouts severed; / Not speaking Chinese, setting aside Sanskrit scriptures. / Where mental aspirations are exhausted, though the body perishes, / This is the monk's style of a disciple of the Tathāgata. / Deep faith mutually revering the completion of the almsbowl stūpa— / (The Nirvāṇa Sūtra says: The body of the Tathāgata has for immeasurable asaṃkhyeya kalpas not received food or drink. For the sake of the śrāvakas, he preached that he first received the milk-gruel of the two cowherd maidens. Hence the Benxing jing says: When the Bodhisattva was about to go to the Bodhi tree, at that time a deva told the two daughters of the spirit king Shànshēng: 'One is named Nandā, meaning joy in Chinese; the second is named Balā, meaning prosperity. You may make the very first offering of food.' Thereupon the two maidens boiled milk-gruel. Various auspicious signs appeared over their cauldron, and so they filled an almsbowl and offered it. After the Bodhisattva ate it, he threw the bowl into the Nairañjanā River. Śakra, lord of the devas, gathered it up, returned to heaven, and built a stūpa to enshrine and make offerings to it; hence it is called the Almsbowl Stūpa. This is one of the four celestial stūpas. The four stūpas are: first, the Hair Stūpa; second, the Arrow Stūpa; third, the Almsbowl Stūpa; fourth, the Tooth Stūpa. Among humans there are also four stūpas: first, the stūpa of the Tathāgata's birthplace; second, the stūpa of the Tathāgata's site of enlightenment; third, the stūpa of the Tathāgata's turning the wheel of Dharma; fourth, the stūpa of the Tathāgata's place of nirvāṇa.) / Majestically placed in the palm of the green mountain. / Observing that inquiring into the Way is not in vain, / Casting off the physical form is exceedingly noble. / Never speaking of today's matters, / Burying the head in darkness, concealing the profound ease. / Leaving no traces, different from the human world, / The deep and wondrous spiritual radiance is amply bright.