[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) › 3.28 # 廬山記 3.28 廬山記 3.28 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2095.3.28) 佛馱跋陀羅。漢云覺賢。本姓釋氏。迦維羅衛國人。甘露梵王之苗裔。覺賢三歲而喪母。五歲而喪父。為外氏所養。從祖鳩摩婆利聞其聰悟。乃迎還度為沙彌。年十七。與同學數人俱以習誦為業。人一月所誦。賢一日誦之。師歎曰。賢一日敵三十夫也。及具戒。博學群經。多所通達。少以禪律馳名。與同社學僧伽達多。共遊罽賓國。達多雖伏其才明。而未測其人也。後於密室禪坐。忽見賢來。達多驚問其意。答曰。暫至兜率。致敬彌勒。言訖便隱。達多乃知其神。其後益見神變。乃敬心祈問。方知其得不還果也。賢喜遊方弘化。乃度葱嶺。歷六國。自交趾附舶。循海至青州東萊郡。聞鳩摩羅什在長安。即往從之。什大喜。相與共發玄旨。多所推伏。後至廬山。遠師久服風聞。傾蓋如舊。於香谷後山。茇舍而居。自是江東始耽禪悅。安帝義熙十四年。先有沙門。於于闐國。得華嚴經前分三萬六千偈。未有宣譯。乃迎師。赴道場寺為譯主。與吳郡內史孟顗右衛將軍褚叔度沙門法業等。詮定文旨。會通華梵。妙得經意。及先後譯出觀佛三昧海等經論。九十五部一百十有七卷。並行於世。以元嘉六年歸寂于建鄴。春秋七十一。賢有釋迦舍利三粒。自隨因葬北嶺。仍建塔焉。 > Buddhabhadra is translated into Chinese as Juexian (Awakened Worthy). His original surname was Śākya, and he was a native of Kapilavastu, a descendant of King Amṛtodana. Juexian lost his mother at the age of three and his father at the age of five, being raised by his maternal relatives. His grand-uncle Kumāravāri, hearing of his sharp intelligence, brought him back and ordained him as a śrāmaṇera. At the age of seventeen, together with several fellow students, he engaged in recitation as his practice; what others recited in a month, Xian recited in a single day. His master sighed and said, 'In a single day Xian matches thirty men.' When he received full ordination, he studied the scriptures extensively, thoroughly penetrating most of them. In his youth, he was renowned for dhyāna and vinaya. Together with his fellow society member Saṃghadatta, he traveled to the country of Jibin. Although Datta submitted to his talent and brilliance, he had not yet fathomed the man. Later, while sitting in dhyāna in a secret room, \[Datta\] suddenly saw Xian arrive. Startled, Datta asked his intention, and \[Xian\] replied, 'I briefly went to Tuṣita to pay homage to Maitreya.' Having spoken, he disappeared. Datta thereby realized his spiritual powers. Later, seeing even more of his spiritual transformations, he reverently inquired of him and only then learned that he had attained the fruit of a non-returner. Xian took pleasure in wandering to propagate and transform; he crossed the Onion Ranges, passed through six countries, boarded a ship from Jiaozhi, and traveled along the sea to Donglai Commandery in Qingzhou. Hearing that Kumārajīva was in Chang'an, he immediately went to follow him. Kumārajīva was overjoyed; together they elucidated profound tenets, Kumārajīva deferring to him in many matters. Later he came to Lushan; Master Yuan had long admired his reputation and they bonded like old friends at their first meeting. Behind the Incense Valley, \[Xian\] made a thatched hut to dwell in. From this time onward, Jiangdong first became immersed in the bliss of dhyāna. In the fourteenth year of the Yixi era of Emperor An, a śramaṇa had previously obtained the first section of thirty-six thousand gāthās of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra in Khotan, which had not yet been translated. They thereupon invited the Master to DaChang Temple to act as the chief translator. Together with Meng Yi, the Governor of Wu Commandery, Chu Shudu, the General of the Right Guard, the śramaṇa Faye, and others, they established the text and meaning, harmonized Chinese and Sanskrit, and wonderfully captured the intent of the scripture. Along with treatises and sūtras translated earlier and later, such as the Guan fo sanmei hai jing, there were ninety-five works in one hundred and seventeen fascicles, all circulating in the world. In the sixth year of the Yuanjia era, he returned to stillness in Jianye at the age of seventy-one. Xian possessed three relics of Śākyamuni that he carried with him, and so he was buried on the northern ridge, where a stūpa was subsequently erected. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2095.3.27) - [Next: 3.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2095.3.29) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2095.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2095~en-mt.3.28) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2095.3.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2095.3.28) · Pramāṇa