[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) › [冥報記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2082) › 1.7 # 冥報記 1.7 冥報記 1.7 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2082.1.7) 蒲州仁壽寺僧。釋道縣。少聰慧。好學。為州里所崇敬。講涅槃八十餘遍。號為精熟。貞觀二年。崔義直任虞卿縣令。人請縣講經。初發題。悲泣。謂眾人曰。去聖遙遠。微言隱絕。庸愚所傳。不足師範。但以信心歸向。自當識悟。今之講說。止於師子。時日既沒。願各在心。既而講至師子。一旦無疾而卒。道俗驚慟。義直身自徒跣。送之南山之陰。時十一月。土地氷凍。下屍於地。地即生花。如蓮而小。頭及手足。各有一花。義直奇之。令人夜守。守者疲睡。有人盜折其花。明旦視之。周身並有花出。總五百餘莖。經七日乃萎乾（義直及道俗皆說云爾）。 > At Renshou Monastery in Puzhou was the monk Shi Daoxian. He was clever from his youth, fond of learning, and revered by his home district. He lectured on the Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra more than eighty times, renowned for his thorough mastery. In the second year of the Zhenguan reign era, Cui Yizhi was serving as magistrate of Yuqing County; the people invited Daoxian to lecture on the sūtra. When he first opened the topic, he wept and said to the assembly, 'We are distant from the sages, and their subtle words have become obscure and cut off; what is transmitted by the mediocre and foolish is insufficient as a standard. Yet if you take refuge with a faithful mind, you will naturally attain discernment and awakening. Today’s exposition will conclude at the Lion \[chapter\]. The time has already run out; I hope each of you keeps this in mind.' Subsequently, having lectured up to the Lion \[chapter\], one morning he died without illness. Clergy and laity were shocked and grieved. Yizhi himself went barefoot to escort his body to the northern slope of the Southern Mountains. It was the eleventh month, and the ground was frozen with ice. When they lowered the corpse to the ground, flowers immediately sprang from the earth, resembling lotuses though smaller; at his head and each of his hands and feet, there was a single flower. Yizhi marveled at it and ordered men to guard it through the night. The guards grew weary and slept, and someone stole and snapped off the flowers. When they looked the next morning, flowers had burst forth all around his body, totaling more than five hundred stems. Only after seven days did they wither and dry up. (Yizhi, as well as clergy and laity, all related this as such.) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2082.1.6) - [Next: 1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2082.1.8) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2082.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2082~en-mt.1.7) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2082.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2082.1.7) · Pramāṇa