[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) › [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122) › 12.5 # 法苑珠林 12.5 法苑珠林 12.5 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [12.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.12.5) 惟我含靈福盡。法王斯逝。遂使北首提河。春秋八十矣。應身粒碎流血何追。爭決最後之疑。競奉臨終之供。嗚呼智炬慈雲。消滅長夜。諸子誠可悲夫。但法身至寂畢竟無為。報化所誘隨機應俗。既曰現生。焉得無滅。凡聖雖殊而莫能免。是以微言背痛而方轉甘露。假託右脇而還放光明。此則無病之迹也。及千㲲既纏而示雙足。金棺將闔而起合掌。此示不滅之徵也。故灰身示權常住顯實。器月之喻其旨明乎。 > Only because the blessings of our sentient beings were exhausted did the Dharma King thus pass away, turning his head to the north by the Hiraṇyavatī River at the age of eighty. His responsive body shattered like grain and his blood flowed—how could he be brought back? They vied to resolve their final doubts and competed to present the final offering. Alas, the torch of wisdom and cloud of compassion have been extinguished in the long night; his children are truly to be pitied! Yet the Dharma body is supremely quiescent and ultimately unconditioned; that which is guided by the reward and emanation bodies accords with capacities and adapts to the mundane. Since he was said to manifest birth, how could there not be demise? Though ordinary people and sages differ, none can escape it. Therefore, with subtle words, he suffered back pain only then to turn the sweet nectar; fictively relying on his right side, he yet emitted radiance. These are the traces of absence of illness. And when, having been wrapped in a thousand layers of fine cotton, he revealed his two feet, and when the golden coffin was about to close, he rose and joined his palms—these are signs indicating non-extinction. Thus, reducing his body to ashes demonstrates the provisional, while permanent abiding reveals the real. The analogy of the moon in a vessel—is its meaning not clear? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 12.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.12.4) - [Next: 12.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.12.6) - [Up: 12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.12) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.12.5) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.12.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.12.5) · Pramāṇa