代宗朝贈司空大辨正廣智三藏和上表制集 6.113

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和上諱不空。西域人也。氏族不聞於中夏故不書。玄宗燭知至道特見高仰。訖　肅宗代宗三朝皆為灌頂國師。以玄言德祥開佑　至尊。代宗初。以特進大鴻臚褒表之。及示疾不起。又就臥內加開府儀同三司肅國公。皆牢讓不允。特賜法號曰大廣智三藏。大曆九年夏六月癸未。滅度於京師大興善寺。代宗為之廢朝三日贈司空。追諡大辨正廣智三藏和尚。荼毘之時　詔遣中謁者。齋祝父祖祭。申如在之敬。睿詞深切。嘉薦令芳。禮冠群倫。譽無與比。伊年九月詔以舍利起塔於舊居寺院。和尚性聰朗。博貫前佛萬法要指。緇門獨立邈盪盪其無雙。稽夫真言字義之憲度。灌頂升壇之軌迹。則時成佛之速。應聲儲祉之妙。天麗且彌。地普而深。固非末學所能詳也。敢以概見序其大歸。昔金剛薩埵親於毘盧遮那佛前受瑜伽最上乘義。後數百歲傳於龍猛菩薩。龍猛又數百歲傳於龍智阿闍梨。龍智傳金剛智阿闍梨。金剛智東來傳於和尚。和尚又西遊天竺師子等國詣龍智阿闍梨。揚攉十八會法。法化相承。自毘盧遮那如來迨於和尚凡六葉矣。每齋戒留中道迎善氣。登禮皆答。福應較然。溫樹不言。莫可記已。西域隘巷。狂象奔突。以慈眼視之。不旋踵而象伏不起。南海半渡。天吳鼓駭。以定力對之。未移晷而海靜無浪。其生也母氏有毫光照燭之瑞。其歿也精舍有池水渴涸之異。凡僧夏五十。享年七十。自成童至于晚暮。常飾供具坐道場。浴蘭焚香。入佛知見。五十餘年晨夜寒暑。未曾須臾有傾搖懈倦之色。過人絕遠。乃如是者。後學升堂誦說。有法者非一。而沙門惠朗受次補之記。得傳燈之旨。繼明佛日。紹六為七。至矣哉。於戲法子永壞梁木。將記本行。託余勒崇。昔承微言。今見几杖。光容眇漠。壇宇清愴。纂書照銘。小子何讓。銘曰。

The Upādhyāya’s taboo name was Bukong (Amoghavajra). He was a man of the Western Regions. Since his clan and lineage are not known in the Central Flowery Land, they are not recorded. Xuanzong, illuminatingly perceiving his supreme Way, specially held him in high esteem and veneration. Up through the three courts of Suzong and Daizong, he served as Abhiṣeka Imperial Preceptor in all of them, illuminating and assisting the Supreme Sovereigns with profound words and virtuous auspices. In the beginning of Daizong’s reign, [the Emperor] praised and distinguished him with [the titles of] Specially Advanced and Grand Chamberlain of the Court of Imperial Regalia. When he manifested illness and did not rise, [the Emperor] again approached his bedchamber to add the titles of Specially Promoted with Equal Ceremonial to the Three Excellencies and Duke of the State of Su. He firmly declined all of them, but this was not granted; instead, he was specially granted the Dharma title of Tripitaka Master of Vast Wisdom. On the guiwei day of the sixth month in the summer of the ninth year of the Da-li era (774), he passed away at Daxingshan Temple in the capital. For his sake, Daizong suspended court audiences for three days, bestowed upon him the posthumous title of Minister of Works, and gave him the posthumous honorific title of Tripitaka Master and Upādhyāya of Great Eloquence, Rectitude, and Vast Wisdom. At the time of the cremation, an edict was issued dispatching a Palace Attendant to deliver a sacrificial invocation and conduct a farewell libation, expressing reverence as though he were present. The imperial words were deeply poignant, the offerings were exquisite and fragrant, the honors surpassed all his contemporaries, and his renown was beyond compare. In the ninth month of that year, an edict ordered that a pagoda be erected with his śarīra within the monastery grounds of his former residence. The Upādhyāya was naturally intelligent and brilliant, and was broadly versed in the essential import of the myriad dharmas of former Buddhas. Standing solitary within the Buddhist community, he was vast and peerless. If we examine the standards of the meanings of words in mantras and the rituals of mounting the altar for abhiṣeka, the speed with which one instantly attains Buddhahood and the wonder with which blessings are accumulated in response to sound are as magnificent and vast as Heaven, as universal and deep as the Earth; they are certainly not something that we late-coming students can fully detail. I only dare to summarize the general outline from what I have seen. Formerly, Vajrasattva personally received the meaning of the supreme vehicle of Yoga before Vairocana Buddha. Several centuries later, it was transmitted to Nāgārjuna Bodhisattva. Several centuries later, Nāgārjuna transmitted it to Nāgabodhi Ācārya. Nāgabodhi transmitted it to Vajrabodhi Ācārya. Vajrabodhi came east and transmitted it to the Upādhyāya. The Upādhyāya further journeyed west to countries such as India and Siṁhala, approached Nāgabodhi Ācārya, and broadly explored the teachings of the eighteen assemblies. As the teaching and transformation were handed down in succession, from Vairocana Tathāgata down to the Upādhyāya, there were six generations in all. Whenever he purified himself and observed the precepts, remaining in the palace to greet auspicious vapors, he answered all who mounted [the dais] to offer salutations, and the response of blessings was clear and distinct. Like the trees of the palace that never speak, [his hidden deeds] cannot all be recorded. In a narrow lane in the Western Regions, when a mad elephant was charging, he looked upon it with eyes of compassion; before he could even turn on his heel, the elephant submitted and did not rise. Halfway across the Southern Sea, when the Tianwu monster stirred up terrifying waves, he confronted it with the power of meditative concentration; before the shadow on the sundial moved, the sea was calm and without waves. At his birth, his mother had the auspicious sign of a white curl of light illuminating and shining; at his death, the monastery experienced the marvel of the pond's water drying up. He had fifty monastic years and lived to seventy. From the time of his youth to the evening of his life, he constantly adorned the offering implements, sat in the arena of the Way, bathed with orchid water, burned incense, and entered into the knowledge and vision of the Buddha. For more than fifty years, day and night, through cold and heat, he never for a single instant showed any sign of vacillation, indolence, or weariness. His superiority over ordinary people was far and remote—it was just like this. Among the later students who ascended his hall and chanted and expounded, those who possessed the Dharma were more than one; yet the monk Huilang received the prophecy of succession, attained the purport of the transmission of the lamp, continued to illuminate the Buddha-sun, and succeeded the six as the seventh. How consummate indeed! Alas, the Dharma-pillar has forever fallen. Wishing to record his original conduct, he entrusted me to engrave this monumental inscription. In the past I received his subtle words; today I behold his armrest and staff. His radiant visage is remote; the courtyard of his altar is desolate and mournful. Composing the inscription to shine forth, how could this minor fellow decline? The inscription says: