[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) › [弘明集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102) › 8.9 # 弘明集 8.9 弘明集 8.9 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [8.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.8.9) 夫質懋纁霞者。言神丹之功。開明淨智者。必𦿆花之氣。雖保此為真。而未能無終。況復張陵妄稱天師。既侮慢人鬼。即身受報。漢興平末為蟒蛇所噏。子衡奔尋無處。畏負清議之報譏。乃假設權方。以表靈化之迹。生縻鵠足置石崖頂。謀事辦畢。剋期發之。到建安元年遣使告曰。正月七日天師昇玄都。米民山獠蟻集閾外。雲臺治民等稽首再拜言。伏聞聖駕玄都。臣等長辭蔭接尸塵。方亨九幽方夜衡入。久之乃出詭稱曰。吾旋駕辰華。爾各還所治。淨心持行存師念道。衡便密抽遊羂鵠。直衝虛空。民獠愚憃僉言登仙。販死利生欺罔天地。 > Flourishing substance like crimson clouds speaks of the efficacy of the divine elixir; opening luminous and pure wisdom requires the vapor of the divine flower. Even if one preserves these as true, one cannot avoid the end. How much more so with Zhang Ling, who falsely claimed to be the Celestial Master! Having insulted and slighted humans and ghosts, he received retribution in his very body: near the end of the Xingping era of the Han, he was swallowed by a giant python. His son Heng rushed in search of him to no avail. Fearing the reproaches and ridicule of pure criticism, he then set up an expedient device to display traces of spiritual transformation. He tied the foot of a live snow goose and placed it atop a stone cliff; when the plot was prepared, he set a date to initiate it. Coming to the first year of the Jian'an era, he sent a messenger to announce: 'On the seventh day of the first month, the Celestial Master ascends to the Mysterious Capital.' The rice-people and mountain barbarians swarmed like ants outside the threshold. The people of the Cloud Terrace parish and others bowed their heads twice, saying: 'We humbly hear that the sage carriage has gone to the Mysterious Capital; we, your subjects, are forever separated from your protective presence, leaving behind corpse-dust to boil in the nine obscurities and dark nights.' Heng entered inside, and after a long while emerged, falsely claiming: 'I have turned my carriage from Chenhua. Return, each of you, to your governing parish; with pure minds maintain practice, keep the Master in mind, and contemplate the Dao.' Heng then secretly pulled the wandering snare, and the snow goose shot straight into the void. The foolish and ignorant populace and barbarians all declared he had ascended to transcendency. Peddling death to profit the living, this is deceiving heaven and earth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 8.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.8.8) - [Next: 8.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.8.10) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.8) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102~en-mt.8.9) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [廣弘明集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.8.61) — Classical Chinese - [集古今佛道論衡](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2104.2.6) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.8.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.8.9) · Pramāṇa