[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) › 2.19 # 釋門自鏡錄 2.19 釋門自鏡錄 2.19 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.2.19) 蔣小德江陵人也。少而信向精謹過人。大明末得病而死。夜三更將斂。便蘇活云。有使者稱王命召之。小德隨去既至。王曰。君精勤小心虔奉大法。被帝釋指。以君專至。宜速生善地。而君年算猶長故。令吾特相召也。今日將受天中快樂。相為忻然小德喜諾。王曰。君可且還家所欲囑寄及作功德。速作之七日復來也。小德受言而歸路。由一處有小屋殊陋弊。逢新寺沙門難公。於此屋住。前既素知識具相問訊。難公云。貧道自出家來未曾飲酒。且暫就蘭公蘭公苦見勸逼飲一升許。今被王召問此故也。貧道若不坐此當得生天。今乃居此弊宇。三年之後方得上昇耳。小德還家欲驗其言。即夕遽遣人參訊難公。果以此日於蘭公處睡臥。至夕無疾而亡。小德既愈七日內大設福供。至期奄然而卒。蘭難二僧並居新寺。難道行尤精云云。 > Jiang Xiaode was a native of Jiangling. In his youth he had faith, devotion, precision, and scrupulousness surpassing others. At the end of the Daming era, he contracted an illness and died. In the middle of the third night watch, as he was about to be encoffined, he revived, saying that an envoy claiming the king's order had summoned him. Xiaode followed him, and once they arrived, the king said: 'You have been diligent, attentive, and reverently devoted to the Great Dharma. Pointed out by Śakra Devānām Indra, because you are single-minded and earnest, you should quickly be born in an auspicious land. Yet because your lifespan is still long, he ordered me specially to summon you. Today you are to receive celestial joys, and I rejoice for you.' Xiaode joyfully consented. The king said: 'You may return home for a time to arrange whatever you wish to entrust and perform meritorious deeds. Do so quickly; in seven days come again.' Xiaode received his words and returned. On the road, he passed by a place with a small room that was exceedingly crude and dilapidated. He met the śramaṇa Master Nan of Xin Monastery living in this room. Having previously been old acquaintances, they inquired after each other in detail. Master Nan said: 'Since I entered the renunciant life, this poor monk had never drunk wine. Just recently I visited Master Lan, and Master Lan earnestly urged and pressed me to drink about a sheng. Now I have been summoned by the king to be questioned regarding this reason. Had this poor monk not been implicated in this, I ought to have been born in heaven; now I dwell in this dilapidated hut, and only after three years will I be able to ascend.' Xiaode returned home, and wishing to verify his words, immediately that evening dispatched someone in haste to inquire after Master Nan. It indeed happened that on this day, Master Nan had lain down to sleep at Master Lan's place, and by evening died without illness. After Xiaode recovered, within seven days he set out great offerings for merit. When the appointed time arrived, he suddenly passed away. The two monks Lan and Nan both resided at Xin Monastery, and Nan's religious practice was particularly refined, etc. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.2.18) - [Next: 2.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.2.20) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083~en-mt.2.19) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.2.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.2.19) · Pramāṇa