[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) › [廣弘明集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103) › 13.112 # 廣弘明集 13.112 廣弘明集 13.112 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [13.112](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.13.112) 內喻曰。聖人相質無常。隨方顯妙。是以蛇軀龍首之聖。道穆於上皇。雙瞳四乳之君。德昭於中古。周公反握。猶騏驥之一毛。禹耳齊肩。乃崑山之片玉（前釋疑後歎正）夫法身等於如如。無方理絕稱謂。化體由乎應物。妙質可涉名言。故有白毫紺睫之輝。果脣花目之麗。万字千輻之相。日輪月彩之殊。非色妙色之容。離相具相之體。薄拘有而不具。輪王具而不明（薩遮經云。非色生性勝諸相。一曰福勝八十種妙勝莊嚴佛日身。譬如三千大千世界四生眾生並成輪王。更增百倍始就如來一毛功德。復加百倍始成一好功德。復加百倍始成一相功德。復加百倍始成眉間白毫相功德。復加百倍始成一無見頂相。復加百倍始成螺髻功德）仙人覩而自悲。嗟衰葉之旦暮梵志見而興感。歎靈華之罕逢。何止蹈五把十以標奇。蒙倛斷𦸜以顯異（曹植相論云。孔子面如蒙倛周公形如斷𦸜也）豈陽文與𩰺蔑比麗。孟娵與隴廉競妍。爾道之劣八也。 > The Buddhist response says: The bodily marks of sages are not fixed; they manifest wonders according to the region. Thus, the sage with a snake's body and a dragon's head brought harmony to the Way in the high antiquity; the lord with double pupils and four breasts illuminated virtue in the middle antiquity. The Duke of Zhou’s inverted grip was merely a single hair of a fine steed; Yu’s ears reaching his shoulders were just a flake of jade from Mount Kunlun. (First, resolving doubt; next, praising the orthodox.) Now, the dharmakāya is equal to Thusness; boundless, its principle transcends designation. The transformation body arises from responding to beings; its wondrous form can be touched upon by names and words. Therefore, it possesses the radiance of the white ūrṇā and dark-blue eyelashes, the beauty of fruit-like lips and flower-like eyes, the marks of the svastika and the thousand-spoked wheel, and the distinctive excellence of the sun’s disk and moon’s radiance. It has the appearance of non-matter that is wondrous matter, and the body devoid of signs yet complete with all signs. Bhākula possessed them but incompletely; a wheel-turning king possesses them but not brightly. (The \*Satyaka-sūtra\* says: 'The nature born of non-matter surpasses all marks. First, the merit of surpassing the eighty minor marks adorns the Buddha's sun-like body. For example, if all beings of the four forms of birth in the trichiliocosm were to become wheel-turning kings, and this were multiplied a hundredfold, it would only equal the merit of a single hair of the Tathāgata. Multiplied another hundredfold, it forms the merit of a single minor mark. Multiplied another hundredfold, it forms the merit of a single major mark. Multiplied another hundredfold, it forms the merit of the white ūrṇā between the eyebrows. Multiplied another hundredfold, it forms the mark of the invisible uṣṇīṣa. Multiplied another hundredfold, it forms the merit of the spiral hair curls.') The ṛṣi wept in grief upon seeing him, lamenting that his own withered leaves were in the twilight of their day; the brahmacārin was moved upon witnessing him, sighing that the miraculous flower is rarely encountered. How could this merely be stepping on five and clasping ten to mark the extraordinary, or having a square face and an emaciated frame to display distinctiveness? (Cao Zhi’s \*Treatise on Physiognomy\* says: 'Confucius’s face was like a square ghost-mask; the Duke of Zhou’s form was like an emaciated tree.') How could the ugly resemble the beautiful, or Meng Ju compete in loveliness with Long Lian? This is the eighth inferiority of your Dao. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 13.111](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.13.111) - [Next: 13.113](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.13.113) - [Up: 13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.13) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103~en-mt.13.112) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [辯正論](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2110.6.80) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.13.112](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.13.112) · Pramāṇa