[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) › [廬山記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2095) › 2.2.1 # 廬山記 2.2.1 廬山記 2.2.1 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2095.2.2.1) 由圓通二十里。 至康王谷景德觀。 舊名康王觀。 入谷中泝澗行五里。 至龍泉院。 又二十里。 有水簾。 飛泉被巖而下者二三十派。 其高不可計。 其廣七十餘尺。 陸鴻漸茶經甞第其水為天下第一。 舊傳。 楚康王為秦將王剪所窘。 匿於谷中。 因隱焉故。 號康王谷。 觀之碑刻皆言其然。 考之不是也。 楚康王昭以春秋魯襄公之二十八年。 及宋魯陳鄭許之君。 送葬于西門之外。 諸侯之大夫皆至于墓。 時楚方強。 去王剪虜負芻滅楚者。 凡三百二十六年。 其間不容復有康王也。 國亡而自匿於山谷。 或康王之子孫。 未可知也。 舊觀基在谷中。 梁大同二年。 道士張法施所建。 隋開皇十年。 道士丁玄真能攝伏鬼神。 遷銅馬廟于谷內。 而建今觀焉。 康王觀之西半里。 有大明庵。 由大明庵至毘盧庵長興庵。 皆二里。 康王觀之南五里。 又有乾壽庵。 由乾壽二里。 至仁王院。 由仁王至淨慧院七里。 自康王觀由官道十五里。 亦至淨慧禪院。 淨慧舊名黃龍靈湯院。 有湯泉。 四時沸騰。 為丹黃之臭。 須臾熟生物。 病瘡人浴之有愈者。 黃龍山在靈湯之南。 亦廬山之別峯也。 其南十里。 亦有清霞觀。 靈湯之東二里。 道傍有謝康樂經臺。 又三里過栗里源。 有陶令醉石。 陶令名潛。 字元亮。 或曰。 字淵明。 義熙三年。 為彭澤令曰。 吾安能為五斗米。 折腰於鄉里小兒。 乃棄去。 賦歸去來。 晉書南史有傳。 所居栗里兩山間有大石。 仰視懸瀑。 平廣可坐十餘人。 元亮自放以酒。 故名醉石。 自栗里三里。 至承天歸宗禪院。 晉咸康六年。 寧遠將軍江州刺史王羲之。 置以處梵僧那連耶舍尊者一名達摩多羅故。 有右軍墨池。 至唐寶曆初。 僧智常居焉。 始大興禪剎。 智常大曆中。 得法於江西道一禪師。 道一姓馬。 僧史謂之馬祖。 智常之目重瞳。 以毒藥自按摩之。 使目眥俱赤。 世號赤眼歸宗。 江州刺史李勃。 與常問答語。 在景德傳燈錄。 土木之盛山南為冠。 金輪峯上霄峯正居其後。 左右盤礴。 面勢平遠。 昔人卜其基曰。 是山有翔鸞展翼之勢。 院東之水故名鸞溪。 溪上有橋。 溪西石渠流泉二百餘丈。 因水為磑。 瀹圃栽蔬。 規摹氣象皆有可觀者。 金輪之峯左右有石鏡。 隱現無時。 光潤如鑑。 熙寧五年夏。 有客遊歸宗。 歸謂予言。 今日在寺門上。 見金輪峯石鏡。 寺僧言。 有居數年未之見者。 上霄峯傑然最高。 即始皇登之。 謂其與霄漢相接。 因名焉。 陳太僕卿劉刪詩曰。 秦始瞰宇宙。 漢帝上旌旃蓋謂此也。 世傳。 峯半如有石室。 中有文字。 云是夏禹所刻。 其字大如掌。 文皆隱起。 外有石屏蔽之。 自上懸縋方到。 春夏泉流不可辨。 秋冬方分明。 昔有好事者。 往摹之僅百餘言。 今人無復至者。 艑底池亦在上霄峯後。 尋陽記云。 吳猛乘舟。 龍負而行。 猛戒舟人閉目。 舟人聞曳觸林木之聲。 懼而竊窺。 龍遂委其舡山預。 舊傳故老真見山頂猶有敗艑。 棲賢之東後有櫓斷源。 亦因猛得名。 歲月已久。 莫可考驗矣。 尋陽記又云。 山有三石梁。 長數丈。 廣不盈尺。 杳然無底。 吳猛與弟子緣石梁而度。 見金闕玉房。 地皆五色文。 石如翬卵。 并有棋樹。 皆高丈餘。 輕風時度。 聞鍾磬之聲。 見一老人。 坐桂樹下。 玉杯盛甘露漿授猛。 又逢數人。 宛若舊識。 仍設玉膏。 猛弟子輒竊一寶器。 欲來示世人。 須臾雲霧晦冥。 梁化如指。 猛令送還。 乃手引諸徒。 閉目而返。 劉刪詩故云。 危梁耿大壑。 瀑布曳中天。 李白詩亦云。 金闕前開二峯長。 銀河倒挂三石梁。 神仙之事固莫知其處也。 歸宗之傍西行百餘步。 有祥符觀。 舊名靈溪。 > Traveling twenty li from Yuantong, one reaches Jingde Abbey in King Kang Valley, formerly named King Kang Abbey. Entering the valley and traveling five li upstream along the torrent, one reaches the Longquan Cloister. Another twenty li further, there is the Water Curtain; the flying spring drapes the cliff and cascades down in twenty or thirty streams. Its height cannot be measured, and its breadth is more than seventy feet. Lu Hongjian in his Cha jing once ranked its water as the finest under Heaven. Old traditions say that King Kang of Chu was hard-pressed by the Qin general Wang Jian and hid within this valley; because he secluded himself here, it was called King Kang Valley. The stele inscriptions at the abbey all state this to be so, but examining the facts shows it is incorrect. King Kang of Chu, Zhao, was buried outside the west gate in the twenty-eighth year of Duke Xiang of Lu in the Spring and Autumn period, together with the rulers of Song, Lu, Chen, Zheng, and Xu, and the grandees of the feudal lords all arrived at his tomb. At that time Chu was just growing strong; from then until Wang Jian captured Fuchu and extinguished Chu was a full 326 years. In the intervening time there could not have been another King Kang. That when the state fell someone hid himself in the mountain valleys—perhaps a descendant of King Kang—is not known. The old site of the abbey was inside the valley, founded in the second year of Datong of the Liang by the Daoist master Zhang Fashi. In the tenth year of Kaihuang of the Sui, the Daoist master Ding Xuanzhen, who was able to subdue ghosts and spirits, moved the Bronze Horse Shrine into the valley and founded the present abbey. Half a li west of King Kang Abbey, there is the Daming Hermitage. From Daming Hermitage to Pilu Hermitage and Changxing Hermitage, each is two li. Five li south of King Kang Abbey, there is also Qianshou Hermitage. From Qianshou it is two li to Renwang Cloister. From Renwang it is seven li to Jinghui Cloister. From King Kang Abbey via the official post road, it is also fifteen li to Jinghui Chan Cloister. Jinghui was formerly named Huanglong Lingtang Cloister. It has a hot spring, boiling in all four seasons, emitting a smell of sulphur. In a brief moment it cooks raw things; people suffering from sores bathe in it and are healed. Mount Huanglong lies south of Lingtang and is also a separate peak of Lushan. Ten li south of it, there is also Qingxia Abbey. Two li east of Lingtang, beside the road, is Duke Xie of Kangle's Platform for Sutra \[Chanting\]. Another three li past the source of Lili, there is Magistrate Tao's Drunken Stone. Magistrate Tao's name was Qian, with the style Yuanliang; some say his style was Yuanming. In the third year of Yixi, while serving as magistrate of Pengze, he said, “How can I, for the sake of five pecks of rice, bend my waist to a village youth?” and thereupon abandoned his post and left, composing Returning Home. The Jin shu and Nan shi have biographies for him. At his residence in Lili, between two mountains, there is a great stone; gazing upward, one looks at a hanging waterfall, and the stone's flat expanse can seat over ten people. Yuanliang gave himself over to wine, hence it was named the Drunken Stone. Three li from Lili, one reaches Chengtian Guizong Chan Cloister. In the sixth year of Xiankang of the Jin, Wang Xizhi, General of Pacifying Remoteness and Regional Inspector of Jiangzhou, established it to house the Indian monk the venerable Narendrayaśas, also named Dharmottara; hence there is the Ink Pond of the General of the Right Army. When the Baoli reign era of the Tang began, the monk Zhichang resided there and first greatly expanded the Chan monastery. In the Dali reign era, Zhichang attained the Dharma from Chan Master Daoyi of Jiangxi; Daoyi was surnamed Ma, and the monastic histories refer to him as Patriarch Ma. Zhichang had double pupils in his eyes; he rubbed them with poisonous herbs to make the canthi completely red, and the world called him Red-Eyed Guizong. The dialogues between Li Bo, Regional Inspector of Jiangzhou, and Chang are recorded in the Jingde chuandeng lu. In the grandeur of its timber and masonry, it ranks first on the south side of the mountain. Jinlun Peak and Shangxiao Peak sit directly behind it; on the left and right the ridges sprawl, their aspect level and far-reaching. Divining the site in the past, someone said, “This mountain has the posture of a soaring luan spreading its wings.” The water east of the cloister is thus named Luan Stream. There is a bridge over the stream; west of the stream a stone channel carries a flowing spring for more than two hundred zhang. Using the water they run a mill, water the gardens, and plant vegetables; its scale and atmosphere are all noteworthy. On the left and right of Jinlun Peak are stone mirrors; they appear and disappear unpredictably, glossy and smooth like bronze mirrors. In the summer of the fifth year of Xining, a traveler visited Guizong and returned to tell me: “Today, above the temple gate, I saw the stone mirror of Jinlun Peak. The temple monks said there are those who have lived here for years and never seen it.” Shangxiao Peak is remarkably the highest; the First Emperor of Qin climbed it and said that it touched the firmament, whence its name was derived. A poem by Liu Shan, Court Director of the Imperial Stud under the Chen, says: “The First Emperor of Qin gazed across the universe; / The Han emperor hoisted his banners,” which refers precisely to this. Tradition says that halfway up the peak there seems to be a stone chamber containing writing said to have been carved by Yu of the Xia. The characters are as large as a palm, the text completely in low relief, shielded on the outside by a stone wall; one can reach it only by dangling from ropes above. In spring and summer the flowing springs make it indistinguishable; in autumn and winter it becomes clear. In the past a curious person went to make rubbings of it, obtaining only a hundred-odd words; nowadays people no longer reach it. The Biandichi (Boat Bottom Pond) also lies behind Shangxiao Peak. The Xunyang ji says that Wu Meng rode in a boat carried by dragons; Meng warned the boatmen to keep their eyes closed, but the boatmen, hearing the sounds of the boat dragging and colliding against the forest trees, were frightened and peeked secretly; the dragons then abandoned the boat on the mountainside. Old traditions say that former elders truly saw the derelict boat still on the mountain peak. East behind Qixian is the Broken Oar Source, also named because of Meng. The years have been long, and it can no longer be verified. The Xunyang ji also says that the mountain has three stone bridges, several zhang long and less than a foot wide, bottomless and unfathomable. Wu Meng crossed along the stone bridges with his disciples and saw golden gates and jade rooms, the ground all in five-colored patterns, the stones shaped like pheasant eggs, together with chessboard trees, all over a zhang high. As a gentle breeze occasionally passed by, the sounds of bells and lithophones were heard. They saw an old man sitting beneath a cassia tree, who offered Meng sweet dew syrup in a jade cup. They also met several people who appeared like old acquaintances, and jade ointment was again served. A disciple of Meng impulsively stole a precious vessel, wanting to return and show it to worldly people; in an instant, clouds and mists turned dark and dim, and the bridges shrank to the size of a finger. Meng ordered it returned; then taking his disciples by the hand, they closed their eyes and returned. Hence Liu Shan's poem says: “A perilous bridge crosses the great gorge; / A waterfall trails across mid-sky.” Li Bai's poem also says: “Golden gates open in front, the two peaks are long; / The Milky Way hangs upside down over three stone bridges.” As for matters of the immortals, their whereabouts can indeed never be known. Walking more than a hundred paces west beside Guizong, there is Xiangfu Abbey, formerly named Lingxi. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2095.2.1) - [Next: 2.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2095.2.2.2) - [Up: 2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2095.2.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2095~en-mt.2.2.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2095.2.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2095.2.2.1) · Pramāṇa