[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) › 9.9 # 廣弘明集 9.9 廣弘明集 9.9 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [9.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.9.9) 一太上道君造立天地。初記稱老子。以周幽王德衰。欲西度關。與尹喜期三年後於長安市青羊肝中相見。老子乃生皇后腹中。至期喜見有賣青羊肝者。因訪見老子從母懷中起。頭鬢皓首身長丈六。戴天冠捉金杖。將尹喜化胡。隱首陽山。紫雲覆之。胡王疑妖。鑊煮而不熱。老君大瞋考殺胡王。七子及國人一分並死。王方伏令國人受化。髠頭不妻受二百五十戒。作吾形香火禮拜。老子遂變形。左目為日右目為月。頭為崑山髮為星宿。骨為龍肉為狩腸為蛇。腹為海。指為五嶽。毛為草木。心為華蓋。乃至兩腎合為真要父母。 > 1. The Supreme Dao Lord creates heaven and earth. The Initial Record states: Laozi, seeing the virtue of King You of Zhou decline, wished to cross the pass westward. He made an appointment with Yin Xi to meet three years later in the Qingyang liver in the market of Chang'an. Laozi then took birth in the womb of an empress. When the appointed time arrived, Yin Xi saw someone selling Qingyang liver. Thereupon he searched and found Laozi rising from his mother's bosom, with white hair and temples, sixteen feet in height, wearing a heavenly crown and holding a golden staff. Leading Yin Xi, he converted the barbarians, retreating into Mount Shouyang, where purple clouds covered them. The barbarian king suspected sorcery and boiled Laozi in a cauldron, but it did not become hot. The Old Lord was furious and interrogated and executed the barbarian king; his seven sons and one-tenth of the countrymen died together. Only then did the king submit and command the countrymen to accept conversion, shaving their heads, remaining unmarried, receiving the two hundred and fifty precepts, and making statues of his form with incense and fire to worship. Laozi thereupon transformed his body: his left eye became the sun, his right eye became the moon; his head became Mount Kunlun, his hair became the constellations; his bones became dragons, his flesh became beasts, his intestines became snakes, his belly became the sea, his fingers became the Five Sacred Mountains, his body hair became grass and trees, his heart became the canopy, down to his two kidneys uniting to form the true, essential parents. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 9.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.9.8) - [Next: 9.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.9.10) - [Up: 9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.9) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103~en-mt.9.9) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.9.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2103.9.9) · Pramāṇa