[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) › 27.59 # 法苑珠林 27.59 法苑珠林 27.59 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [27.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.27.59) 唐武德時。河東有練行尼法信。常誦法華經。訪工書者一人。數倍酬直。特為淨室令寫此經。一起一浴然香熏衣。仍於寫經之室鑿壁通外。加一竹筩。令寫經人每欲出息。輕含竹筒吐氣壁外。寫經七卷八年乃畢。供養殷重盡其恭敬。龍門僧法端常集大眾講法華經。以此尼經本精定遣人請之。尼固辭不與。法端責讓之。尼不得已乃自送付。法端等開讀唯見黃紙了無文字。更開餘卷悉皆如此。法端等慚懼即送還尼。尼悲泣受以香水洗函。沐浴頂戴繞佛行道。於七日夜不暫休息。既而開視文字如故。知抄寫深加潔淨。比來無驗只為不殷（右一驗出冥報記）。 > During the Wude era of the Tang, there was in Hedong an ascetic nun named Faxin who constantly recited the Lotus Sūtra. Seeking out a scribe skilled in calligraphy, she paid him several times the usual fee, and specially prepared a pure chamber for him to copy this sūtra. Whenever \[he\] arose, \[he would\] bathe and burn incense to perfume his robes. Moreover, she had a hole pierced through the wall of the copying chamber leading to the outside and inserted a bamboo tube, bidding the scribe, whenever he wished to exhale, to hold the bamboo tube lightly in his mouth and breathe his breath outside the wall. The copying of the seven fascicles took eight years to complete. Her offerings were earnest and profound, exhausting all reverence. The monk Faduān of Longmen frequently gathered a great assembly to lecture on the Lotus Sūtra. Because this nun's manuscript was fine and correct, he sent someone to request it. The nun steadfastly declined and would not grant it, so Faduān reproached her. Having no alternative, the nun personally delivered it to him. When Faduān and the others opened it to read, they saw only yellow paper, completely devoid of characters. Opening the remaining fascicles, all were likewise. Ashamed and frightened, Faduān and the others immediately returned it to the nun. Weeping in grief, the nun received it, washed the case with fragrant water, bathed, placed \[the sūtra\] upon her head, and circumambulated the Buddha, practising the path for seven days and nights without pausing to rest. Afterward, when she opened and examined it, the characters were just as before. Thus one knows that in copying she had added profound purity; that there had previously been no efficacy was solely because \[their\] sincerity was not profound. (The above single piece of evidence is from the Mingbaoji.) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 27.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.27.58) - [Next: 27.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.27.60) - [Up: 27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.27) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.27.59) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [法華傳記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2068.8.22) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.27.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.27.59) · Pramāṇa