[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) › 38.67 # 法苑珠林 38.67 法苑珠林 38.67 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [38.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.38.67) 鄭州超化寺塔者。在州西南百餘里密縣界。在縣東南十五里。塔在寺東南角。其北連寺方十五步許。其寺塔基在淖泥之上。西面有五六泉。南面亦有。皆孔方三尺。騰涌沸出流溢成川。泉上皆有安柏柱。鋪在泥水上。以炭沙石灰次而重填。最上以大方石可如八尺床編次鋪之。四面細腰。長一尺五寸。深五寸。生鐵固之。近有人試發一石。下有石灰乃至柏團。便抽一團。長三丈。徑四尺。現在。自非輪王表塔神功所為。何能辨此基搆。終古不見其儔也。今於上架塔二重。塔南大泉涌沸鼓怒絕無水聲。豈非神化所致也。有幽州僧道嚴者。姓李氏。形極奇偉。本入隋煬四道場。後從俗服。今年一百五歲。獨住深山。每年七日來此塔上盡力供養。嚴怪其泉流涌注無聲。乃遣善水昆崙入泉尋討。但見石柱羅列不測其際。中有寶塔。可高三尺。獨立空中。四面水圍凝然而住。竟不至塔所。考其原始莫測其由。時俗所傳育王所立。隋祖已來寺塔現在。 > As for the Chaohua Temple pagoda in Zhengzhou, it is located in the territory of Mi County, more than a hundred li southwest of the prefecture and fifteen li southeast of the county seat. The pagoda is at the southeast corner of the temple, adjoining the temple on its north, measuring about fifteen paces square. The base of the temple and pagoda sits upon soft mud. On the west side are five or six springs, and there are some on the south side as well, all with openings three feet square, surging and boiling forth to overflow into streams. Above the springs, cypress pillars have all been placed, laid out over the muddy water; charcoal, sand, and lime were then filled in layer by layer; at the very top, large square stones, each about the size of an eight-foot couch, were laid side by side. Their four sides have narrow waists, one foot five inches long and five inches deep, reinforced with cast iron. Recently, someone tried unearthing one stone; beneath it was lime, and down to cypress logs. He then pulled out one log, thirty feet long and four feet in diameter, which is still there today. Unless it were done by the divine power of a cakravartin marking a pagoda, how could such a foundation structure be achieved? Through all antiquity, its peer has not been seen. Now a two-tiered pagoda is built upon it. The great spring south of the pagoda boils and surges furiously, yet produces absolutely no sound of water; how could this not be the result of a divine transformation? There was a monk from Youzhou named Daoyan, surnamed Li, whose appearance was extraordinarily majestic. He had originally joined the four monastic arenas of Emperor Yang of the Sui, but later returned to secular dress. He is now one hundred and five years old and lives alone in the deep mountains. Every year for seven days, he comes to this pagoda to make offerings with all his might. Yan wondered why the surging gush of the spring was silent, and so he sent a Kunlun adept at swimming into the spring to investigate. The diver saw only stone pillars lined up in rows, their limits unfathomable. In their midst was a jeweled pagoda about three feet high, standing independently in mid-air, surrounded on all sides by water that remained perfectly still, yet the water never reached the pagoda. Inquiring into its origin, no one could determine its cause; popular tradition says it was erected by King Aśoka. From the founding emperor of the Sui onward, the temple and pagoda have remained preserved. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 38.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.38.66) - [Next: 38.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.38.68) - [Up: 38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.38) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.38.67) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.38.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.38.67) · Pramāṇa