[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) › 2.4 # 冥報記 2.4 冥報記 2.4 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2082.2.4) 國子祭酒蕭璟。蘭陵人。梁武帝之孫。梁王巋之第五子也。梁滅入隋。姊為煬帝皇后。生長貴盛。而家崇佛法。大業中。自以誦法華經。乃依經文作多寶塔。以檀香為之。塔高三尺許。其上方厚等為木多寶像。經數年。其兄子詮在宅。朝起。忽於前院草中。見一檀木浮圖。蓋下有一鍮石佛像。製作異於中國。面形似胡。其眼睛以銀為之。中黑精光淨如自然者。詮走告璟。璟視驚喜。取蓋還。試置塔上。宛然相稱。如故作者。雖木色小異。而塔形更妙。以佛像安塔中。亦相稱如故造。璟喜歡。自以精誠所感。其佛像函內有舍利百餘枚。璟女尼年少。竊疑。胡僧每云。舍利鎚打不破。乃試取三十枚。於石上斧打之。舍利了無著者。女就地拾覓。唯得三四枚。餘並失。不見所在。既而懼以告璟。璟往塔中視之。則舍利皆在如舊。璟從此日誦法華經一遍。以至于身終。貞觀十一年病。蕭后及弟姪視之。璟與相見。各令燃香因即共別。唯留弟宗公瑀及女為尼者。令燃香誦經。頃之謂其尼曰。我欲去。普賢菩薩來迎。我在東院。師可迎之。尼如言往迎之未還。璟曰。此院不淨。不肯來。吾當往就。汝等好住。因與瑀等別。仍起長跪合掌。正向西方。頃之。倒臥遂絕。遺令。獨載一車。斂以在身之服。婦人不得送葬。勿以肉祭。制坎纔令沒棺。朝野歎其通寤。家人奉而行之（仲珪弟孝諧。為大理主簿。為臨說。更聞州人亦同云爾）。 > Xiao Jing, Libationer of the Directorate of Education, was a man of Lanling, the grandson of Emperor Wu of the Liang, and the fifth son of King Kui of Liang. After Liang was destroyed, he entered the Sui; his elder sister became the empress of Emperor Yang. Born and raised in nobility and affluence, his family revered the Buddha-Dharma. During the Daye era, because he recited the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Sūtra, he built a Prabhūtaratna Stūpa according to the sūtra text, making it of sandalwood. The stūpa was about three chi high, and its upper part was square and equal in dimensions, housing a wooden image of Prabhūtaratna. After several years, his elder brother’s son Quan was at the residence. Rising in the morning, he suddenly saw a sandalwood stūpa canopy in the grass of the front courtyard, beneath which was a brass Buddha image. Its craftsmanship was different from that of the Central Plains: its face resembled a foreigner's, and its eyes were made of silver, with dark pupils shining bright and clear as if natural. Quan ran to tell Jing. Jing looked at it with surprise and joy, took the canopy back, and tried placing it atop the stūpa; it fit snugly, as if originally made for it. Although the wood color differed slightly, the stūpa's form became even more wonderful. When he placed the Buddha image inside the stūpa, it likewise fit as if originally crafted for it. Jing was overjoyed, considering himself to have moved \[the unseen\] through sincere devotion. Within the case of that Buddha image were more than a hundred relics. Jing's daughter, a young nun, secretly had doubts: foreign monks always said that relics could not be broken by a hammer. So she tried taking thirty relics and striking them with an axe on a stone; the relics were not harmed at all. The girl picked them up from the ground to search, but only found three or four, while the rest were lost, their whereabouts unknown. Afterward, she became frightened and told Jing. Jing went to look inside the stūpa, and all the relics were there as before. From then on, Jing recited the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Sūtra once a day until the end of his life. In the eleventh year of the Zhenguan era, he fell ill. Empress Xiao, along with his younger brothers and nephews, visited him. Jing met with them, bade each light incense, and thereupon took leave of them. He retained only his younger brother Yu, Duke of Zong, and his daughter who was a nun, having them light incense and recite the sūtra. Shortly after, he said to the nun, “I am about to depart; Samantabhadra Bodhisattva has come to welcome me. I am in the eastern courtyard; you may go welcome him, Master.” The nun went to welcome him as told, but before she returned, Jing said, “This courtyard is impure, so he is unwilling to come; I shall go to him. May you all abide well.” Thereupon he bid farewell to Yu and the others, rose, knelt upright with palms joined, facing directly west. Shortly after, he lay down and expired. His testamentary instruction ordered: “Carry me alone on a single cart; enshroud me in the clothes upon my body; women must not accompany the funeral procession; do not sacrifice with meat; dig the pit just deep enough to cover the coffin.” The court and the public admired his thorough awakening. His family revered and carried out his wishes. (Zhonggui’s younger brother Xiaoxie, Record Keeper of the Court of Judicial Review, told this to Tang Lin; I also heard that the people of the prefecture said the same.) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2082.2.3) - [Next: 2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2082.2.5) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2082.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2082~en-mt.2.4) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [法華傳記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068.5.28) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2082.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2082.2.4) · Pramāṇa