[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) › 7.58 # 法苑珠林 7.58 法苑珠林 7.58 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [7.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.7.58) 晉沙門支法衡。晉初人也。得病旬日亡。經三日而蘇活說。死時有人將去。見如官曹舍者數處。不肯受之。俄見有鐵輪。輪上有鐵爪從西轉來。無持引者而轉駛如風。有一吏呼罪人當輪立。輪轉來轢之。翻還如此。數人碎爛。吏呼衡。道人來當輪立。衡恐怖自責悔不精進。今當此輪乎。語畢謂衡曰。道人可去。於是仰首見天有孔。不覺𭝶爾上昇。以頭穿中。兩手博兩邊。四向顧視見七寶宮殿及諸天人。衡甚踊躍不能得上。疲而復還下。所將衡去人笑曰。見何等物不能上乎。乃以衡付船官。船官行船使為柂工。衡曰。我不能持柂強之。有船數百皆隨衡後。衡不曉捉柂蹌沙洲上。吏司推衡。汝道而失。以法應斬。引衡上岸雷鼓將斬。忽有五色二龍推船還浮。吏乃原衡罪。載衡北行三十許里。見好村岸有數萬家。云是流人。衡竊上岸。村中饒狗互欲嚙之。衡大恐懼。望見西北有講堂。上有沙門甚眾。聞經唄之聲。衡遽走趣之。堂有十二階。衡始躡一階。見亡師法柱踞胡床坐。見衡曰。我弟子也。何以而來。回起臨階以手巾打衡面曰。莫來。衡甚欲上。復舉步登階。柱復推令下。至三乃止。見平地有一井口。深三四丈。塼無隙際。衡心念言。此井自然。井邊有人謂曰。不自然者何得成井。唯見法柱故倚望之。謂衡可復道還去。狗不嚙汝。衡還水邊亦不見向來船也。衡渴欲飲水。乃墮水中。因便得蘇。於是出家持戒菜食。晝夜精思為至行沙門。比丘法橋衡弟子也。 > The Jin śramaṇa Zhi Faheng was a man of the early Jin dynasty. He fell ill for ten days and died, but revived after three days. He related that when he died, someone led him away, and he saw several places resembling government bureaus, but none would accept him. Soon he saw an iron wheel with iron claws rolling in from the west; no one was driving or pulling it, yet it rolled as swiftly as the wind. An official called out to sinners to stand before the wheel, and the wheel rolled over and crushed them, turning around again and again in this manner until several people were smashed to pieces. The official called to Faheng, 'Śramaṇa, come stand before the wheel!' Terrified, Faheng blamed himself, regretting that he had not been vigorous: 'Must I now face this wheel?' When the words were finished, \[the official\] said to Faheng, 'Śramaṇa, you may go.' Thereupon he looked up and saw a hole in the sky, and without realizing it, he soared upward, poked his head through the opening, and braced his hands on both sides. Looking in all four directions, he saw palaces of the seven treasures and various heavenly beings. Faheng was overjoyed, but unable to climb all the way up, he became exhausted and fell back down. The person who had led Faheng away laughed and said, 'What kind of thing did you see that you could not climb up?' Thereupon, he handed Faheng over to the Boat Bureau. The Boat Bureau sailed boats and made him serve as a helmsman. Faheng said, 'I cannot handle a helm,' but they forced him. There were several hundred boats following behind Faheng. Faheng did not know how to hold the helm, and his boat ran aground on a sandbar. An official interrogated Faheng: 'You lost the course; by law, you should be beheaded.' They led Faheng ashore, and with thunderous drums, they were about to execute him. Suddenly, two five-colored dragons pushed the boat so that it floated again. The official then pardoned Faheng's offense and carried him north for about thirty leagues. They saw a fine village on the bank with tens of thousands of households, said to be exiled people. Faheng secretly went ashore; the village was full of dogs that tried to bite him one after another. Faheng was greatly terrified. Looking northwest, he saw a lecture hall atop which were very many śramaṇas, and he heard the sound of sūtra chanting. Faheng ran hastily toward it. The hall had twelve steps; just as Faheng stepped onto the first step, he saw his deceased master, Fazhu, seated on a folding chair. Seeing Faheng, he said, 'You are my disciple; why have you come here?' Turning and standing near the steps, he struck Faheng's face with a hand towel, saying, 'Do not come!' Faheng desperately wanted to ascend and took another step up, but Zhu pushed him down again; this happened three times before he stopped. He saw a well on level ground, thirty to forty feet deep, its bricks fitted without any gaps. Faheng thought in his mind: 'This well is spontaneous.' A person beside the well said to him: 'If it were not spontaneous, how could a well be formed?' He only saw Fazhu, who looked toward him from afar, telling Faheng: 'You may return by the road you came; the dogs will not bite you.' Faheng returned to the water's edge, but could no longer see the boat from earlier. Faheng was thirsty and wished to drink water, so he fell into the water, and thereupon he revived. After this, he renounced household life, held the precepts, ate only vegetarian food, and day and night reflected with vigor, becoming a śramaṇa of supreme conduct. Bhikṣu Fāqiáo was Faheng's disciple. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 7.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.7.57) - [Next: 7.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.7.59) - [Up: 7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.7) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.7.58) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.7.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.7.58) · Pramāṇa