[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) › 2.27 # 釋門自鏡錄 2.27 釋門自鏡錄 2.27 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.2.27) 釋玄鑒姓焦。澤州高平人也。十九出家投誠釋種。酒肉葷辛天然自厭後住清化寺。依止遠公。博釆經論。於大涅槃深得其趣。而正性敦直言行相依。凡值飲酒非法。莫不碎其酒器。故諸俗士聚集飲宴。聞鑑來至並即馳散。時清化寺修營佛殿。澤州官長長孫義頗懷奉信。聞役工匠其數甚眾。乃送兩輿酒以致之。鑑時見此。破其酒器。狼籍在地。吾之功德乍可不成。終不用此非法物也。義聞之大怒。明欲加害。夜夢有人。以刀臨之。既忽驚悟。即便歸依懺悔。又時遇疫氣死亡。非一投鑑悔之。令斷酒肉。痊復者眾矣。鄉人李遷者性偏嗜酒因疾請懺。俄然除差。自斯厭捨甞無言及。甞謂友人曰。自見鑑師已來酒氣如毒。尚不喜聞。況當見也。其戒節感人皆此之類。及武德六年。當部護澤縣李錄事死。經七日來報其妻云。吾得為人間游魂鬼也。未然之事。皆悉知之。與人交言事。同生者。但以物自翳不現其形。鬼時往景業寺。聽維摩經。有餘法師。時或飲酒謂鬼曰。今講此經感何人聽。答曰。自人頭已上便是鬼神。上及諸天。重級充滿然都講。唱文皆斂容傾耳。法師解義皆迴面而聽。聞酒氣故也。此定須斷。若其不然寧不講也。非唯此會。一切皆然耳。僧媿自斷焉。 > Shi Xuanjian's secular surname was Jiao, and he was a native of Gaoping in Zezhou. At nineteen he entered renunciation and devoted his sincere faith to the Śākya clan. By his very nature he detested alcoholic drinks, meat, and pungent roots. Later he resided at Qinghua Monastery, relying on Master Yuan. He extensively gathered sūtras and treatises, gaining profound insight into the purport of the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra. His fundamental disposition was earnest and upright; his words and actions corresponded with each other. Whenever he encountered the illicit practice of drinking wine, he never failed to smash the drinking vessels. For this reason, whenever secular gentlemen gathered for a drinking banquet and heard that Xuanjian was arriving, they would immediately scatter in flight. At that time, Qinghua Monastery was constructing a Buddha hall. The magistrate of Zezhou, Zhangsun Yi, was quite faithful. Hearing that the hired artisans and workmen were exceedingly numerous, he sent two cartloads of wine to supply them. When Xuanjian saw this, he smashed the wine vessels, spilling it in disarray across the ground, \[saying,\] 'My merit had rather remain uncompleted; I shall never use this illicit item.' Hearing of this, Zhangsun Yi was furious, intending to bring harm upon him the next morning. That night he dreamed that someone approached him with a sword. Abruptly waking in fright, he immediately took refuge and repented. Furthermore, at that time people met with pestilence and deaths were not few; they turned to Xuanjian to repent, and he had them cut off wine and meat, so that those who recovered were numerous. A local man named Li Qian was especially fond of drinking wine; on account of illness he requested to repent, and abruptly his ailment was cured. From then on, he detested and cast it aside, never even speaking of it. He once said to a friend, 'Ever since I met Master Xuanjian, the stench of wine has been like poison; I do not even like to smell it, how much less look at it.' His strict discipline moved people in such a manner. Coming to the sixth year of the Wude reign era (623 CE), the record-keeper Li of Huze County in that prefecture died, and after seven days he came to report to his wife, saying, 'I have become a wandering spirit in the human realm. I know all future matters. When I converse with people, it is just as with the living; I merely conceal myself behind objects and do not show my form.' At times the ghost went to Jingye Monastery to listen to the Vimalakīrtinirdeśa-sūtra. There was another Dharma master who occasionally drank wine; he said to the ghost, 'Whom does my expounding of this sūtra now inspire to listen?' The ghost replied, 'From above people's heads on up are ghosts and spirits, extending up to the devas, filling tier upon tier. When the chief reciter chants the text, they all compose their countenances and incline their ears. When the Dharma master explains the meaning, they all turn their faces away while listening, because they smell the stench of wine. This definitely must be broken off; if not, it were better not to lecture at all. It is not merely this assembly; it is so for all of them.' Ashamed, the monk quit \[drinking\] of his own accord. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.2.26) - [Next: 2.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.2.28) - [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.2.27) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.2.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2083.2.27) · Pramāṇa