[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) › 31.17 # 法苑珠林 31.17 法苑珠林 31.17 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [31.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.31.17) 西晉末竺佛圖澄西域人。形貌似百歲人。左脇孔圍可四五寸。以帛塞之。齋日就水邊抽腸胃出。洗已內孔。夜則除帛光照一室以讀書。雖未通群籍。與諸學士輒辯析無滯。莫不伏者。至永嘉中游雒下。時石勒屯兵河北。以殺戮為威。道俗遇害不少。澄往造軍門豫定吉凶。勒見每拜。澄化令奉佛。減虐省刑。故中州免者十而八九。勒與劉曜相拒搆隙以問澄。澄曰。可生擒耳。何憂乎。麻油塗掌令視見之。曜被執朱繩縛肘後。果獲之。如掌所見。至建平四年四月八日。勒至寺灌佛微風吹鈴有聲。顧謂眾曰。解此鈴音者不。鈴言。國有大喪不出今年。至七月而勒死。石虎即位。師奉過勒。賜以輿輦入出乘馬。所有祥感其相極多。略而不述。虎末年澄告弟子曰。禍將作矣。及期未至吾且過世。至戊申年。太子殺其母弟。虎怒誅及妻子。明年虎死。遂有冉閔之亂。葬於鄴西。一云澄死之日。商者見在流沙。虎開棺唯見衣鉢。澄在中原時遭凶亂。而能通暢仁化其德最高。非夫至聖何能救此塗炭。凡造寺九百八十餘所。通濟道俗者中分天下矣。 > At the end of the Western Jin, Zhu Fotudeng was a man from the Western Regions. In appearance, he seemed like a centenarian. On his left flank, there was a hole about four or five inches in circumference, plugged with silk. On fasting days, he would go to the water’s edge, pull out his intestines and stomach, wash them, and insert them back inside the hole. At night, he would remove the silk, and light would illuminate the entire room so that he could read books. Although he had not studied the full range of canonical texts, whenever he debated with various scholars, his analyses were unimpeded, and there were none who did not submit. During the Yongjia reign-era, he travelled to Luoxia. At that time, Shi Le was garrisoning troops north of the Yellow River, using slaughter to establish his authority, and monks and laypeople alike suffered death in no small numbers. Fotudeng went to the gates of his military camp and foretold good and bad fortune. Whenever Shi Le saw him, he bowed to him. Fotudeng converted him to uphold the Buddha, reduce cruelties, and lessen punishments; consequently, eight or nine out of ten in the Central Plains were spared. When Shi Le and Liu Yao were in conflict and harboured enmity against each other, Shi Le asked Fotudeng about it. Fotudeng said: “He can be captured alive; what cause is there for worry?” He smeared sesame oil on his palm and had him look into it: Liu Yao was seen bound, his elbows tied behind him with red cord. Ultimately he was captured, just as seen in the palm. On the eighth day of the fourth month in the fourth year of the Jianping reign-era, Shi Le went to the temple to bathe the Buddha. A light breeze made the bells ring with a sound. Looking around, he said to the assembly: “Do you understand the sound of these bells?” The bells said: ‘The state will suffer a great bereavement before this year is out.’ In the seventh month, Shi Le died. When Shi Hu ascended the throne, his reverence for the Master surpassed that of Shi Le: he bestowed upon him a carriage and palanquin, and permitted him to ride a horse when entering and exiting. All his auspicious portents and manifestations were exceedingly numerous; they are omitted here and not recounted. In his final years, Fotudeng told his disciples: “A disaster is about to occur; before that time arrives, I shall pass away.” When the wushen year arrived, the Crown Prince killed his younger brother by the same mother; in his fury, Shi Hu executed the Crown Prince along with his wife and children. The following year Shi Hu died, and the uprising of Ran Min broke out. Fotudeng was buried west of Ye. Another account says that on the day of Fotudeng’s death, merchants saw him in the shifting sands; when Shi Hu opened the coffin, he found only his robes and bowl. Living in the Central Plains during a time of ruinous turmoil, Fotudeng was able to spread benevolent transformation, and his virtue was supreme. Had he not been a consummate sage, how could he have rescued people from such suffering? In all, he built more than 980 temples; the monks and laypeople whom he aided and saved accounted for half the empire. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 31.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.31.16) - [Next: 31.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.31.18) - [Up: 31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.31) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.31.17) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.31.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.31.17) · Pramāṇa