[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) › 89.117 # 法苑珠林 89.117 法苑珠林 89.117 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [89.117](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.89.117) 晉新陽縣有釋法安。一名慈欽。未詳何許人。是遠公之弟子。善持戒行。講說眾經。兼習禪業。於晉義熙年中。新陽縣虎災。縣有大社。樹下築神廟。左右居民以百數。人遭虎死者。夕有一兩。安甞游其縣。暮投此村。民以畏虎早閉門閭。安徑之樹下。通夜坐禪。向曉聞虎負人而至投之樹北。見安如喜如驚。跳伏安前。安為說法受戒。虎踞地不動。有頃而去。旦村人追虎至樹下。見安大驚。謂是神人。遂傳之一縣。士庶宗奉。虎災由此而息。因改神廟留安立寺。左右田園皆捨為眾業。後欲作畫像須銅青。困不能得。夜夢見一人迂其床前云。此下有銅鍾。寤即掘之。果得二口。因以青成像。後以銅助遠公鑄佛。安後不知所終。 > Under the Jin, in Xinyang County, there was Shi Fa'an, also named Ciqin; it is not known where he was from. He was a disciple of Master \[Hui\]yuan, skilled in keeping the precepts and conduct, expounding the various scriptures, and concurrently practising dhyāna meditation. During the Yixi era of the Jin, there was a calamity of tigers in Xinyang County. In the county was a great communal altar, beneath whose tree a spirit temple was built, surrounded by hundreds of residents. Among the people who suffered death from the tigers, there were one or two every evening. An once traveled through that county and lodged in this village at dusk. Because the villagers feared the tigers, they had closed their gates early. An went straight under the tree and sat in dhyāna throughout the night. Toward dawn, he heard a tiger approaching carrying a person, whom it threw to the north of the tree. Seeing An, it seemed both pleased and startled, leaping and crouching before An. An expounded the Dharma and conferred the precepts upon it; the tiger crouched on the ground without moving, and after a while departed. At dawn, when the villagers tracked the tiger to beneath the tree, they were greatly astonished to see An, regarding him as a divine person. This was then spread through the whole county, and the gentry and commoners venerated him. The tiger calamity ceased from this. Thereupon they altered the spirit temple and kept An there to establish a monastery; the surrounding fields and gardens were all relinquished as the common property of the Saṃgha. Later, wishing to make painted icons, he needed verdigris but was distressed that he could not obtain it. At night, he dreamt of a person circling in front of his bed, saying, "Beneath here are bronze bells." Upon waking, he dug there and indeed obtained two bells; using the patina, he completed the icons, and later used the bronze to assist Master \[Hui\]yuan in casting a Buddha statue. It is not known where An ended his life. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 89.116](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.89.116) - [Next: 89.118](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.89.118) - [Up: 89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.89) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.89.117) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.89.117](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.89.117) · Pramāṇa