[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) › [道宣律師感通錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2107) › 1.15 # 道宣律師感通錄 1.15 道宣律師感通錄 1.15 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2107.1.15) 又問。涪州相思寺側多古迹。篆銘勒之。不識其緣。答云。此迦葉佛時。有山神。姓羅名子明。蜀人也。舊是持戒比丘。生憎破戒者。發諸惡願。令我死後作大力鬼噉破戒人。因願受身作此山神。多有眷屬。所王土地。東西五千餘里。南北二千餘里。年噉萬人以上。此神本曾為迦葉佛兄。後為弟子。彼佛怜愍。故來教化種種神變。然始調伏。乞受五戒。隨識宿命。因不噉人。恐後心變。故佛留迹。育王於上起塔在山頂。神便藏於石中。塔是育王所作。其神見在。其郭下寺塔。育王所立（事現付囑儀）南海循州北山興寧縣界靈龕寺。多有靈跡。此乃文殊聖者弟子。為此山神多造惡業。文殊愍之便教化。遂識宿命。請為留跡。我常禮事得離諸惡。文殊為現。今者是也。貞觀三年。山神命終生兜率天。別有一神。來居此地。即舊神親家也。大造諸惡。生天舊神憐之。下請文殊為現小跡。以化後神。又從正法。故今此山。大小跡現。莫不匪由焉（事現付囑儀）。 > I asked again: "Beside the Xiangsi Temple in Fuzhou there are many ancient sites carved with seal inscriptions, but their background is unknown." He replied: "During the era of Kāśyapa Buddha, there was a mountain deity whose surname was Luo and given name was Ziming, a man of Shu. Formerly, he was a precept-holding monk who detested those who broke the precepts and made various evil vows: 'Let me, after death, become a powerful ghost and devour precept-breakers!' In accordance with his vow, he took rebirth as this mountain deity, having numerous retinues. The territory he ruled spanned over five thousand li east to west and over two thousand li north to south, and he devoured more than ten thousand people a year. This deity had originally been an elder brother of Kāśyapa Buddha and later became his disciple. That Buddha pitied him and came to teach and transform him through various supernormal transformations, only then subduing him. He begged to receive the five precepts and thereupon recognized his past lives; consequently, he ceased eating people. Fearing that his mind might change later, the Buddha left footprints behind. King Aśoka erected a stupa above them on the mountain summit, and the deity then concealed himself within the rock. The stupa was made by King Aśoka; that deity is still alive today. The temple and stupa below the outer city walls were erected by King Aśoka (these matters appear in the Ritual of Entrustment). At Lingkan Temple within the boundary of Xingning County on the northern mountain of Xunzhou in the Southern Sea, there are many spiritual traces. This was a disciple of the Holy One Mañjuśrī who, having become this mountain deity, committed many evil deeds. Mañjuśrī pitied him and taught him, whereupon he recognized his past lives and requested: 'Please leave traces for me so that I may constantly worship them and become free from all evil.' Mañjuśrī manifested them for him, which are the ones seen today. In the third year of the Zhenguan era, the mountain deity's life ended, and he was reborn in Tuṣita Heaven. Another deity came to reside in this place, who was a relative of the former deity's family by marriage. He committed great evil deeds. The former deity, now born in heaven, pitied him, came down, and requested Mañjuśrī to manifest small traces in order to transform the later deity, who then followed the True Dharma. Therefore, that both large and small traces appear on this mountain today is entirely due to this (these matters appear in the Ritual of Entrustment)." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2107.1.14) - [Next: 1.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2107.1.16) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2107.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2107~en-mt.1.15) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.14.59) — 道世, Classical Chinese - [律相感通傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1898.1.70) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2107.1.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2107.1.15) · Pramāṇa