[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) › 1.24 # 釋門自鏡錄 1.24 釋門自鏡錄 1.24 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.1.24) 晏通不知何許人也。雖廁道門。志多愚鄙。倚託功德。以祈潤沃。甞鑄一大銅像。光趺侍衛並悉闕之。所得施財輒以自入。而號像為出課奴焉。後時經久片無所得。通便執杖謂像曰。奴何不出課。將欲笞之。未舉手間。忽見一人。長二丈被戈甲怒目直前曰。無賴竪子何忍於佛像如斯乎。便提頸離地數尺。鐵杖鞭之。從首至足遍身流血。通叫呼求哀。聲聞里外。道俗觀者莫不寒心。十日以外杖瘡之下。更生癩瘡。大如桃杏。膿泄流溢。遍體紅赤。狀若火然。去之數步。熱氣傍及。通但曉夜號叫宛轉膿血。經百餘日。其房乃地陷數尺。於是而終。 > It is not known where Yantong came from. Although he mingled among the clergy, his inclinations were largely foolish and base; relying upon meritorious deeds, he sought to enrich himself. He once cast a large bronze image, but the halo, pedestal, and attendant figures were all omitted. The donated funds he received were routinely pocketed for himself, and he called the image the "revenue-yielding slave." Later, after a long time had passed without receiving a single scrap, Tong took up a staff and said to the image, "Slave, why do you not yield revenue?" He was about to beat it, but before he could raise his hand, he suddenly saw a man twenty feet tall, clad in armor, glaring with angry eyes and coming straight forward, saying, "Worthless wretch! How can you bear to treat a Buddha image like this?" He then seized him by the neck, lifting him several feet off the ground, and whipped him with an iron staff, blood flowing all over his body from head to foot. Tong screamed and pleaded for mercy, his voice heard far and near; among monastics and lay onlookers, none failed to be chilled to the heart. After ten days, beneath the staff wounds, leprous sores further erupted, as large as peaches and apricots, oozing and discharging pus; his entire body turned crimson, as though on fire. Several paces away, the feverish heat radiated outward. Tong could only wail day and night, tossing and turning in pus and blood. After more than a hundred days, the ground in his room sank several feet, and thereupon he died. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.1.23) - [Next: 1.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.1.25) - [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.1.24) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.1.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.1.24) · Pramāṇa