[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) › [集神州三寶感通錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2106) › 2.4 # 集神州三寶感通錄 2.4 集神州三寶感通錄 2.4 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2106.2.4) 初案南齊王琰冥祥記。云漢明帝夢見神人。形垂二丈。身黃金色。項佩日光。以問群臣。或對曰。西方有神。其號曰佛。形如陛下所夢。得無是乎。於是發使天竺。寫致經像表之中夏。自天子王侯。咸敬事之。聞人死精神不滅。莫不懼然自失。初使者蔡愔將西域沙門迦葉摩騰等。齎優填王畫釋迦倚像。帝重之。如夢所見也。乃遣畫工圖之數本。於南宮清涼臺及高陽門顯節壽陵上供養。又於白馬寺壁。畫千乘萬騎繞塔三匝之像。如諸傳備載。 > First, examining the Records of Unseen Auspicious Signs by Wang Yan of the Southern Qi: It states that Emperor Ming of the Han dreamed of a divine person nearly twenty feet tall, golden in color, with the radiance of the sun circling his neck. He asked his ministers about it, and someone replied, 'In the west there is a deity named the Buddha, whose form is like what Your Majesty dreamed; could it not be this?' Thereupon, envoys were dispatched to India to copy and bring back scriptures and images to make them known in China. From the Son of Heaven down to the princes and marquises, all served them with reverence. Hearing that upon a person's death the spiritual consciousness is not extinguished, there were none who were not terrified and lost in awe. At first, the envoy Cai Yin, accompanied by the Western Regions' śramaṇa Kāśyapa Mātaṅga and others, brought a painted seated image of Śākyamuni made by King Udayana. The emperor valued it highly, as it was just like what he had seen in his dream. He then dispatched painters to make several copies of it, to be venerated at the Qingliang Terrace of the Southern Palace and atop the Xianjie Longevity Tomb at the Gaoyang Gate. Furthermore, on the walls of Baima Temple, an image was painted of a thousand chariots and ten thousand cavalry circling the stūpa three times, as is fully recorded in the various biographies. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2106.2.3) - [Next: 2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2106.2.5) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2106.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2106~en-mt.2.4) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.13.20) — 道世, Classical Chinese - [三寶感應要略錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2084.1.15) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2106.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2106.2.4) · Pramāṇa