[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) › [大宋僧史略](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2126) › 1.30 # 大宋僧史略 1.30 大宋僧史略 1.30 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2126.1.30) 行像者。自佛泥洹。王臣多恨不親覩佛。由是立佛降生相。或作太子巡城像。晉法顯到巴連弗城。見彼用建卯月八日行像。以車結縛五層。高二丈許。狀如塔。彩畫諸天形。眾寶作龕。佛坐菩薩立侍。可二十車。車各樣嚴飾。婆羅門子請佛。次第入城內宿。通夜供養。國國皆然。王及長者立福德醫藥舍。凡貧病者詣其中。醫師瞻候病差方去。又嶺北龜茲東荒城寺。每秋分後。十日間。一國僧徒皆赴五年大會（西域謂之般遮于瑟）國王庶民皆捐俗務。受經聽法。莊嚴佛像。戴以車輦。謂之行像。于闐則以四月一日行像。至十四日訖。王及夫人始還宮耳。今夏臺靈武每年二月八日。僧戴夾苧佛像。侍從圍繞。幡蓋歌樂引導。謂之巡城。以城市行市為限。百姓賴其消災也。又此土夏安居畢。僧眾持花執扇。吹貝鳴鐃引而雙行。謂之出隊迦提也（取迦提月名也）釋老志曰。魏世祖於四月八日。輿諸寺像行於廣衢。帝御門樓臨觀。散花致禮焉。又景興尼寺金像出時。詔羽林一百人。舉輦伎樂。皆由內給。又安居畢。明日總集。旋繞村城。禮諸制底。棚車興像。幡花蔽日。名曰三摩近離（此曰和集）斯乃神州行城法也。 > Regarding the procession of images: Since the Buddha's parinirvāṇa, kings and ministers often lamented that they had not personally seen the Buddha. For this reason, they established images of the Buddha's descent into birth, or made images of the prince inspecting the city. When Faxian of the Jin arrived in Pāṭaliputra, he saw that they processed images on the eighth day of the second month (jianmao). They tied together carts into five tiers, about twenty feet high, shaped like a stūpa, painted with the forms of the devas, and made shrines out of various jewels, in which the Buddha sat with attending bodhisattvas standing by. There were about twenty carts, each adorned in its own style. Sons of brāhmaṇas invited the Buddhas, which sequentially entered the city to stay overnight, with offerings made through the whole night; every state was like this. Kings and elders established halls of merit and medicine, and all who were poor and sick went there, leaving only after the physicians examined them and their illnesses were cured. Furthermore, north of the mountains at the Donghuangcheng Monastery in Kucha, during the ten days following the autumn equinox each year, the saṃgha of the entire state would assemble for the five-year great assembly (in the Western Regions called a pañcavārṣika). The king and the common people all cast aside their worldly affairs to receive the scriptures, listen to the Dharma, adorn the Buddha images, and carry them on carts and carriages; this was called the procession of images. In Khotan, they processed images starting on the first day of the fourth month and concluding on the fourteenth day, after which the king and queen returned to the palace. Nowadays, in Lingwu at Xiatai, every year on the eighth day of the second month, monks carry dry-lacquer Buddha images, surrounded by retinues, guided by banners, canopies, and music; this is called inspecting the city. It is bounded by the city streets and marketplaces, and the common people rely on it to eliminate calamities. Moreover, when the summer retreat concludes in this land, the monastic assembly holds flowers and fans, blows conches, and beats cymbals, marching forward in double files; this is called the emerging-in-ranks kārtika (taking the name of the month Kārtika). The 'Treatise on Buddhism and Daoism' says: 'On the eighth day of the fourth month, Emperor Shizu of the Wei had the images of various monasteries carried in carts along the broad avenues. The emperor proceeded to the gate tower to watch, scattering flowers and paying homage.' Furthermore, when the golden image of the Jingxing Nunnery came forth, an imperial edict assigned one hundred Yulin guardsmen; raising the sedan chair and playing music were all provided by the palace. Also, after the retreat concluded, on the following day all assembled to circumambulate villages and towns, worshipping various caityas, with canopied carts raising images, their banners and flowers blotting out the sun; it was named a sāmagrī (rendered here as 'harmonious gathering'). These are the practices of processing through cities in the Divine Land (China). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2126.1.29) - [Next: 1.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2126.1.31) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2126.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2126~en-mt.1.30) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2126.1.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2126.1.30) · Pramāṇa