[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) › 1.74 # 釋門自鏡錄 1.74 釋門自鏡錄 1.74 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.1.74) 釋智保。河東人。少出家。以戒行馳譽。英猷茂實僧傳具之。而立性剛毅寡於慈順。及將終告友人慧滿曰。余欲死矣。而來報精神不得超勝。似作守寺之神而止于西院佛殿。余頻以法遣之。卒不能離。言訖便絕。自爾西院佛殿。人罕獨登。時輒須開。無不慄然毛竪。及後百餘日甞有老姥。內懷酒食將遺一僧。行至寺門忽遭神害。身死委地器物流離。寺眾憚之知其有徵也。 > The monk Zhibao was a native of Hedong. He entered monastic life in his youth and was famed for his moral conduct. His noble achievements and abundant deeds are fully recorded in the biographies of monks. Yet he was by nature unyielding and stern, lacking in kindness and compliancy. When he was about to die, he told his friend Huiman: “I am about to die. But as for my future retribution, my spirit cannot transcend higher; it seems I will become a spirit guarding the monastery and dwell in the Buddha hall of the western courtyard. I have repeatedly applied the Dharma to dispel it, but in the end I cannot be free of it.” Having spoken these words, his breath ceased. From then on, people rarely climbed alone to the Buddha hall of the western courtyard; whenever it had to be opened, everyone shivered with their hair standing on end. More than a hundred days later, an old woman, carrying wine and meat within her clothes, was going to present them to a monk. When she reached the monastery gate, she was suddenly harmed by the spirit: she fell dead upon the ground, and her vessels were scattered. The monastic assembly feared him and knew that his omen had come to pass. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.1.73) - [Next: 1.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.1.75) - [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.1.74) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.1.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.1.74) · Pramāṇa