[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) › 14.19 # 法苑珠林 14.19 法苑珠林 14.19 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [14.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.14.19) 北齊末晉州靈石寺沙門僧護。守道直心不求慧業。願造丈八石像。眾僧咸怪其言大。後於寺北谷中見有臥石可長丈八。乃雇匠就而造佛。向經一周面腹粗了。而背猶著地。以六具拗舉之不動。經夜自翻。旦視欣然。即就營作移在佛堂。晉州陷日像汗流地。周兵入境先燒寺塔。此像被焚初不變色。唯傷二指。後欲倒之。人牛六十牽挽不遂。忽有異僧咸無識者。以瓦木土墼雜壘圍之須臾便了。失僧所在。像後降夢信心者曰。吾患指痛。其人悟而補之。隋氏啟運如前開復。開皇十五年有盜幡蓋者。即夢丈八人入室責之。其賊慚怖而送。像今現在。 > At the end of the Northern Qi, the śramaṇa Senghu of Lingshi Temple in Jinzhou, who maintained the Way with a straightforward mind and did not seek intellectual wisdom, vowed to carve an eighteen-foot stone image. The monks all found his words boastful. Later, in the valley north of the temple, he saw a reclining stone roughly eighteen feet long, so he hired artisans to go there and make a Buddha. After about a year, the face and torso were roughly completed, but the back was still stuck to the ground. They tried to lever it up using six sets of devices, but it would not budge. Overnight, it turned over on its own. In the morning they looked upon it with joy, then completed the work and moved it to the Buddha hall. On the day Jinzhou fell, sweat flowed from the image onto the ground. When the Zhou troops entered the territory, they first burned down the temple and its pagoda. Although this image was consumed by fire, its color did not change at all; only two fingers were damaged. Later they wished to topple it, but sixty men and oxen pulled and hauled to no avail. Suddenly, an extraordinary monk whom no one recognized used tiles, wood, and earth bricks in a haphazard pile to surround it; in a moment it was finished, and the whereabouts of the monk were lost. Later, the image appeared in a dream to a believer, saying: “I suffer from finger pain.” The man realized what it meant and repaired it. When the Sui dynasty came to power, the temples were restored as before. In the fifteenth year of the Kaihuang era, someone stole its banners and canopies; that night he dreamed of an eighteen-foot person entering his room to reprimand him. Filled with shame and terror, the thief returned them. The image still exists today. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 14.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.14.18) - [Next: 14.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.14.20) - [Up: 14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.14) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.14.19) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [集神州三寶感通錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2106.2.37) — 道宣, Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.14.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.14.19) · Pramāṇa