[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) › 15.28 # 法苑珠林 15.28 法苑珠林 15.28 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [15.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.15.28) 宋何曇遠。廬江人也。父萬壽御史中丞。遠奉法精至持菩薩戒。年十八。元嘉九年丁父艱哀毀致招疾。殆將滅性。號踊之外。便歸心淨土庶祈感應。遠時請僧常有數人。師僧含亦在焉。遠常向含悔懺宿業。恐有緣終無感徹。僧含每獎厲勸以莫怠。至十年二月十六日。夜轉經竟。眾僧已眠。四更中忽自唱言。歌誦歌誦。僧含驚而問之。遠曰。見佛身黃金色。形狀大小如今行像。金光周身浮焰丈餘。幡華翊從充牣虛空。瓌妙麗極事絕言稱。遠時住西廂中云。佛自西來轉身西向。當佇而立呼其速去。曇遠常日羸喘示有氣息。此夕壯厲悅樂動容便起淨手。含布香手中并取園華遙以散佛。母謂遠曰。汝今若去不念吾耶。遠無所言。俄而頓臥。家既宿信聞此靈異。既皆欣肅不甚悲懼。遠至五更忽然而終。宅中芬馨數日乃歇（右四驗出冥祥記也）。 > During the Song, He Tanyuan was a native of Lujiang. His father, Wanshou, was an Palace Attendant Censor (yushi zhongcheng). Tanyuan practiced the Dharma with ultimate devotion and maintained the bodhisattva precepts; he was eighteen years of age. In the ninth year of the Yuanjia reign era (432 CE), he underwent mourning for his father; his grief and physical deterioration brought about illness, nearly destroying his life. Beyond weeping and beating his breast, he dedicated his mind to the Pure Land, hoping to pray for a sympathetic resonance. At that time, Tanyuan would regularly invite several monks, among whom was his teacher, Senghan. Tanyuan constantly repented and confessed his past karma to Senghan, fearing that due to karmic conditions he would ultimately fail to evoke a response. Senghan repeatedly encouraged and urged him not to be indolent. On the sixteenth day of the second month of the tenth year (433 CE), after the nocturnal chanting of the scriptures had ended and the assembly of monks was already asleep, during the fourth watch he suddenly chanted aloud: "Sing and chant! Sing and chant!" Senghan, startled, asked him about it. Tanyuan said: "I see the Buddha's body of golden color, equal in size and shape to the processional images of today, with golden light surrounding his body and floating flames rising more than a zhang high. Banners and flowers accompany him in attendance, filling the empty sky; its exquisite beauty is supreme, beyond all words and description." Tanyuan was staying in the west wing at the time, and he said: "The Buddha came from the west, turned around to face west, and stands waiting, calling for me to go swiftly." Formerly, Tanyuan was constantly frail and panting, barely showing signs of breath; this night he was vigorous and joyful, his expression stirred. He immediately got up, washed his hands, and Senghan scattered incense into his hands and took garden flowers to scatter toward the Buddha from afar. His mother said to Tanyuan: "If you go now, do you have no thought for me?" Tanyuan said nothing. Shortly thereafter, he lay down completely. Since the family had long had faith, hearing of this divine anomaly, they were all joyful and solemn, without great sorrow or fear. At the fifth watch, Tanyuan suddenly passed away. A fragrance lingered in the residence for several days before subsiding. (The four accounts above are taken from the \*Mingxiang ji\*.) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 15.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.15.27) - [Next: 15.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.15.29) - [Up: 15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.15) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.15.28) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.15.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.15.28) · Pramāṇa