道宣律師感通錄 1.12

1.12

余問。今玉華宮南檀臺山。有甎塔。面別三十步。下層極壯。四面石龕。旁有碎甎。又有三十餘窯甎。古老莫知何代。然每聞鍾聲。答云。此穆王寺也。名曰靈山。至育王時。勅山神於此造塔。西晉末亂。五胡控權。劉曜都長安數夢。此山佛現在甎塔。坐語曜曰。汝少飲酒。莫耽色欲。黜去耶佞進忠良。曜不能從。後於洛陽醉落馬。石勒所擒。初曜因夢所悟。令人尋山訪之。遂見此像坐小甎塔。與夢符同。便毀小塔。更作大者。高一十九級。并造寺宇。極好莊麗。寺名法燈。度三百僧住之。曜如趙後。寺有三十二人。修得三果。山神於今塔後。又造一寺。供二果僧。神往太白。採取芝草。供養聖僧。皆獲延齡。寺今見在。凡人不見。所聞鍾聲即寺鍾也。其塔本基。雖因劉曜。仍是穆王立寺之處。又是迦葉如來之古寺也。貞觀年中。玉華北慈烏川山。常見鹿集逐去還來。有人異之。於鹿集處掘深一丈。獲一石像長丈許。

I asked: "South of the present Yuhua Palace at Mount Tālatā, there is a brick stupa, thirty paces on each side. The lower story is exceedingly grand, with stone niches on all four sides and broken bricks nearby. There are also over thirty brick kilns; the elders do not know from what era they date. Yet a bell is often heard ringing." He replied: "This is King Mu's temple; it was called Lingshan. In the time of King Aśoka, an edict commanded the mountain deity to build a stupa here. During the chaos at the end of the Western Jin, when the Five Hu seized power, Liu Yao made Chang'an his capital and repeatedly dreamed that a Buddha on this mountain appeared in a brick stupa, sat, and spoke to Yao, saying: 'Drink less wine, do not indulge in sensual desires, dismiss the crooked and flattering, and promote the loyal and good.' Yao could not comply. Later in Luoyang, he fell from his horse while drunk and was captured by Shi Le. Earlier, when Yao was awakened by the dream, he sent people to search the mountain, and they subsequently found this image sitting in a small brick stupa, matching the dream. Thereupon, he destroyed the small stupa and built a larger one, nineteen stories high, along with temple buildings that were exceedingly grand and beautiful. The temple was named Fadeng, and three hundred monks were ordained to reside there. When Yao went to Zhao, thirty-two men in the temple cultivated and attained the third fruit. Behind the present stupa, the mountain deity built another temple to make offerings to monks of the second fruit. The deity went to Mount Taibai to gather lingzhi herbs and make offerings to the holy monks, all of whom obtained prolonged lives. The temple still exists today, but ordinary people cannot see it; the sound of the bell that is heard is the bell of that temple. As for the stupa's original foundation, though it arose through Liu Yao, it remains the site where King Mu founded a temple and is also an ancient temple of Kāśyapa Tathāgata. During the Zhenguan era, deer were frequently seen gathering in the mountains of Ciwuchuan north of Yuhua; when chased away, they returned. Someone found this strange and dug ten feet deep where the deer gathered, obtaining a stone image about ten feet tall."