[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) › 36.126 # 法苑珠林 36.126 法苑珠林 36.126 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [36.126](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.36.126) 陳思王曹植字子建。魏武帝第四子也。幼含珪璋十歲屬文。下筆便成。初不改字。世間術藝無不畢善。邯鄲淳于見而駭服。稱為天人。植每讀佛經輒流連嗟翫。以為至道之宗極也。遂製轉讚七聲昇降曲折之響。世人諷誦咸憲章焉。嘗遊魚山。忽聞空中梵天之響。清雅哀婉其聲動心。獨聽良久而侍御皆聞。植深感神理彌寤法應。乃摹其聲節寫為梵唄。纂文製音傳為後式。梵聲顯世始於此焉。其所傳唄。凡有六契。 > Cao Zhi, King Si of Chen, styled Zijian, was the fourth son of Emperor Wu of Wei. From childhood he embraced refined virtue; at the age of ten he composed literary works, completing them as soon as the brush touched the paper, without ever changing a character. Among worldly arts and skills, there was none in which he was not entirely proficient. Handan Chun saw him and was astonished into admiration, referring to him as a celestial being. Whenever Zhi read Buddhist sūtras, he would linger over them with sighs and admiration, considering them the ultimate culmination of the supreme Path. Thereupon he devised modulated praises with the tonal modulation of the seven tones, rising, falling, and bending; worldly reciters all took them as a standard. Once he was wandering on Mount Yu, when he suddenly heard the sound of the Brahmā heaven in the sky, clear, elegant, plaintive, and delicate, its sound moving the heart. He listened alone for a long time, and then his attendants also heard it. Zhi was deeply moved by the divine principle and even more awakened to the responsiveness of the Dharma; he thereupon modeled its tones and rhythms, transcribing them into Sanskrit pāṭha, compiling texts and creating tones to transmit as a model for later times. The manifestation of Sanskrit chanting in the world began from this. The pāṭha he transmitted numbered six sections in total. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 36.125](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.36.125) - [Next: 36.127](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.36.127) - [Up: 36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.36) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.36.126) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.36.126](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.36.126) · Pramāṇa