[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) › 14.57 # 法苑珠林 14.57 法苑珠林 14.57 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [14.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.14.57) 又問。今玉華宮南檀臺山上有甎塔。面別四十步。下層極壯。四面石龕。傍有碎甎。又有三十餘窯甎。古老莫知何代。然每聞鍾聲。答曰。此穆王寺也。名曰靈山。至育王時。勅山神於此造塔。西晉末亂五胡控權。劉曜京都長安數夢。此山佛現在甎塔中。坐語曜曰。汝少飲酒莫耽色欲。黜去邪佞進用忠良。曜不能從。後於洛陽酒醉落馬。為石勒所擒。初曜因夢所悟令人尋山訪之。遂見此像坐小甎塔。與夢符同。便毀小塔更造大者。高一十九級。并造寺宇極存壯麗。寺名法燈。度三百僧住之。曜沒趙後。寺有四十三人修得三果。山神於今塔後。又造一寺供三果僧。神往太白採取芝草。供養聖僧皆獲延齡。寺今現在。凡人不見。所聞鍾聲即是寺鍾也。其塔本基雖因劉曜。仍是穆王立寺之處也。又是迦葉如來之古寺也。至貞觀年中。於玉華北慈烏川山上。常見群鹿來集其所。逐去還來。有人異之。於鹿集處。掘深一丈獲一石像。長一丈許。現今供養。 > He also asked: "Now on Mount Tantai south of Yuhua Palace, there is a brick pagoda, forty paces on each side. The lower story is exceedingly grand, with stone niches on all four sides. Nearby there are broken bricks, and there are also more than thirty brick kilns. The elders do not know what era it belongs to, yet the sound of a bell is always heard there." > He answered, saying: "This was King Mu's temple; it was called Lingshan. When it came to King Aśoka's time, he commanded the mountain spirit to build a pagoda here. During the chaos at the end of the Western Jin, when the Five Barbarians seized power, Liu Yao had his capital in Chang'an and repeatedly dreamt of this mountain's Buddha appearing inside a brick pagoda. Sitting, he said to Yao: 'Drink less wine and do not indulge in sensual desires. Banish the crooked and flattering, and promote and employ the loyal and good.' Yao was unable to comply. Later, while drunk in Luoyang, he fell from his horse and was captured by Shi Le. Earlier, because of what he had realized from the dream, Yao had sent men into the mountains to search for it, and they found this image sitting in a small brick pagoda, matching the dream. He then demolished the small pagoda and built a larger one, nineteen stories high, and also built temple buildings that were exceedingly grand and magnificent. The temple was named Fadeng ('Dharma Lamp'), and he ordained three hundred monks to reside there. After Yao perished and the Zhao fell, forty-three people in the temple cultivated and attained the third fruit. Behind the present pagoda, the mountain spirit built another temple to make offerings to the monks of the third fruit. The spirit went to Mount Taibai to gather lingzhi herbs to offer to the holy monks, all of whom thereby obtained extended life. The temple still exists today, though ordinary mortals cannot see it; the sound of the bell that is heard is the bell of that temple. Although the original foundation of that pagoda derived from Liu Yao, it was still the site where King Mu established a temple; it was also the ancient temple of Kāśyapa Tathāgata. During the Zhenguan era, on the mountain by the Ciwu River north of Yuhua, herds of deer were constantly seen gathering in that place. When chased away, they would return. Someone found this remarkable and dug ten feet deep at the place where the deer gathered, discovering a stone image about ten feet tall, which is worshipped at present." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 14.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.14.56) - [Next: 14.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.14.58) - [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.14.57) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [律相感通傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1898.1.58) — Classical Chinese - [道宣律師感通錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2107.1.12) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.14.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.14.57) · Pramāṇa