[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) › [釋門自鏡錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083) › 1.107 # 釋門自鏡錄 1.107 釋門自鏡錄 1.107 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.107](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.1.107) 釋慧約樹果二人。俱少小出家。住京勝業寺。以垂拱三年。俱為內庫直歲。忽於五月中被冥官捉將見王。王問。汝等生時作何業行。約答曰。誦法華經三四卷。王合掌敬之云。且放還。遣人將觀受苦之處。行向西南到一大門。北院見一行長舍。以板為牆。東西相當。作孔如枷孔無異。孔孔之中皆有僧頭當。見同寺僧大諒。身猶見在頭出孔中。即見約果。啼哭驚喚不可具言。其大諒甞撿挍修葺殿中三大像。私用像物故被追攝。每孔邊皆有獄率。形狀可畏。執刀刎之。血污狼籍。獄率安頭唱活還即頭出孔中。如是不久乃經一二十度。次西行。又見殺生食肉受罪之處。無數眾僧被割截。聲呼難堪被害。所食眾生咸來索命。分噉食血。又見同寺寺主僧智感都維那阿六。被縛極急。勘當食肉用僧物罪。約果忽然被推著深黑坑中。俄而穌活。遍體流汗心魂無主。後不盈月日。諒即身死。感亦暴亡。極受辛苦。阿六發心懺悔不出戶。讀一切經晝夜懃懇。數見冥司使二黃衣人騎白馬來取。到阿六門內一人云。大大發心日夜不捨讀一切經故當可放。凡三四度來。於是阿六並親見懃懺不已。遂得無他。 > The two monks Shi Huiyue and Shuguo both entered renunciation in their youth and resided at Shengye Monastery in the capital. In the third year of Chuigong, both were serving as annual prefects of the internal treasury. Suddenly, in the fifth month, they were arrested by underworld officials and brought to see the King. The King asked, 'What karmic practices did you engage in during your life?' Yue replied, 'I recited three or four rolls of the Lotus Sūtra.' The King pressed his palms together in reverence to him and said, 'Let them be released to return for now. Send someone to lead them to see the places of suffering.' Walking southwest, they arrived at a large gate. In the northern courtyard they saw a long row of buildings with planks for walls, matching each other east and west, made with holes no different from the holes in a pillory. In each and every hole was a monk's head. They saw Daliang, a monk of their own monastery; while his body was still alive \[in the human world\], his head protruded through a hole. Seeing Yue and Guo, his weeping and terrified shouting were beyond description. This Daliang had once supervised and repaired three large images in the hall and had privately used the property belonging to the images; therefore, he had been summoned and arrested. Beside every hole was a hell warden of terrifying appearance, who held a knife and severed his neck, so that blood was spattered in wild disorder. When the hell warden put the head back and cried out 'Live!', the head again protruded through the hole. In this way, in no time at all, it was repeated ten to twenty times. Next, walking west, they also saw the places where sins were suffered for killing living beings and eating meat. Countless multitudes of monks were sliced and dismembered, their cries of unbearable distress at being harmed \[filling the air\]. All the living beings they had eaten came to demand their lives, tearing their flesh and drinking their blood. They also saw the vihārasvāmin Zhigan and the karmadāna Alu of their own monastery, bound exceedingly tight, undergoing trial for the crimes of eating meat and using saṃgha property. Suddenly, Yue and Guo were pushed into a deep, dark pit. Shortly after, they revived. Their entire bodies were drenched in sweat, their souls bewildered. Less than a month later, Liang died, and Gan also died suddenly, suffering extreme agony. Alu brought forth the mind \[of awakening\], repented, did not leave his room, and read the entire Canon day and night with diligent sincerity. Several times he saw two men in yellow robes, envoys of the underworld tribunal, riding white horses to come and take him. Having arrived inside Alu's gate, one man said, 'Because he has brought forth a great mind and reads the entire Canon day and night without cease, he ought to be released.' They came altogether three or four times. Thereupon Alu personally witnessed this and persevered in diligent repentance without stopping, and in the end escaped harm. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.106](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.1.106) - [Next: 1.108](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.1.108) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083~en-mt.1.107) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.1.107](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.1.107) · Pramāṇa