[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) › 57.40 # 法苑珠林 57.40 法苑珠林 57.40 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [57.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.57.40) 唐鄭州陽武縣婦女姓朱。其夫先負外縣人絹百匹。夫死之後遂無人還。貞觀末因病死。經再宿而蘇。自云彼人執至一所。見一人云。我是司命府吏。汝夫生時負我家絹若干匹。所以追汝。今放汝歸。宜急具物至某縣某村某家送還我母。如其不送捉遣更切。兼為白我孃。努力為某造像修福。朱即告乞。鄉閭得絹送還其母。具言其兒貌狀。有同生平。其母亦對之流洟歔欷久之。 > Under the Tang, in Yangwu County of Zhengzhou, there was a woman surnamed Zhu whose husband had owed a hundred bolts of silk to someone from another county. After her husband died, no one repaid it. Toward the end of the Zhenguan era, she died of illness, but revived after two nights. She recounted that she had been seized and brought to a place where she saw a person who said: 'I am an officer of the Department of the Director of Destiny. When your husband was alive, he owed my family so many bolts of silk, which is why you were summoned. Now I release you to return. You should quickly prepare the goods and deliver them back to my mother at such-and-such a house, in such-and-such a village, in such-and-such a county. If you do not deliver them, you will be arrested and brought back with even greater severity. Also, tell my mother to strive to make statues and cultivate merit for me.' Zhu then begged among the neighborhood, obtained the silk, and brought it back to his mother. She recounted the son's appearance in full, just as he had been in life. His mother wept and sobbed facing her for a long time. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 57.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.57.39) - [Next: 57.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.57.41) - [Up: 57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.57) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.57.40) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.57.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.57.40) · Pramāṇa