[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) › 1.9 # 道宣律師感通錄 1.9 道宣律師感通錄 1.9 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2107.1.9) 又問。江表龍光瑞像。人傳羅什將來。就扶南所得如何。答非羅什也。斯乃宋孝武征扶南獲之。昔佛滅後三百年中。北天竺大阿羅漢優婁質那。以神力加工匠。三百年中鑿大石山。安置佛窟。從上至下凡有五重。上重高三百餘尺。請彌勒菩薩指作檀像處。玄奘師傳云。高百餘尺。聖迹記云。高八丈。足符八尺。六齋日常放光。其初作時。羅漢將工人上天。三往方成。第二牛頭栴檀。第三金。第四玉。第五銅像。凡夫今止在下重四重閉。石窟映徹見人藏腑。第六百年。有佛奈遮羅漢。生母在扶南國。念母重恩。從上重中。取木檀像。令母供養。母終生楊州。出家住新興寺。獲悟三果。宋孝武征扶南獲此像來都。亦是羅漢神力。母今見在。時往羅浮天台西方諸處。昔往曇無竭者再往西方有傳五卷。略述此緣。何得云什師背負而來耶。 > I also asked: "Regarding the auspicious Longguang statue south of the Yangzi, people transmit that Kumārajīva brought it, having obtained it in Funan; how was it?" > He replied: "It was not Kumārajīva. This was obtained by Emperor Xiaowu of Song when he campaigned against Funan. In the past, during the three hundred years after the Buddha's parinirvāṇa, the great arhat of Northern India, Upagupta, exerted divine power together with craftsmen: over three hundred years, he chiseled a great rocky mountain to establish Buddha caves. From top to bottom there were five tiers in all. The upper tier was over three hundred feet high, where he requested Bodhisattva Maitreya to indicate the spot to make a sandalwood statue. Master Xuanzang's biography says it was over one hundred feet high, while the \*Records of Sacred Traces\* says it was eighty feet tall, with feet matching at eight feet, and on the six days of purification it regularly emitted light. When it was first being made, the arhat took the craftsmen up to the heavens, only completing it after going three times. The second was ox-head candana; the third gold; the fourth jade; the fifth a bronze statue. Ordinary mortals are now restricted to the lower tier, while the four upper tiers are closed. The stone caves are clear and translucent, so that one can see a person's viscera. > In the sixth century, there was the arhat Fanazhe (Bhadrika). His birth mother was in the country of Funan. Mindful of his mother's heavy kindness, he took the wooden sandalwood statue from the upper tier and caused his mother to make offerings to it. When his mother passed away, she was reborn in Yangzhou, went forth from the household to dwell at Xinxing Temple, and attained realization of the third fruit. When Emperor Xiaowu of Song campaigned against Funan, he obtained this statue and brought it to the capital, which was also due to the arhat's supernatural power. His mother is alive even now, frequently traveling to Luofu, Tiantai, the Western Regions, and other places. In the past, Faxian made a second journey to the west; there is a five-fascicle record that briefly recounts these circumstances. How could one say that Master Kumārajīva carried it on his back when coming?" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2107.1.8) - [Next: 1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2107.1.10) - [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.1.9) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.14.53) — 道世, Classical Chinese - [律相感通傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1898.1.49) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2107.1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2107.1.9) · Pramāṇa