貞元新定釋教目錄 14.4

14.4

"Lofty is the mountain of Dharma, / Vast is the field of wisdom. / At the inception of the Path, / He served as an exemplar before men. / His fame spread across the Central Kingdom; / His deeds were exalted in the Southern Heavens. / Displaying illumination and metaphors, / Across the three thousand great thousands. / A stūpa seconding footsteps, / Shouldering alongside Mātaṅga. / True quiescence possesses its realm; / Birth and death are without bounds. / Śākyamuni showed manifestation; / Kāśyapa sought affinity. / Without coming and without going, / What is behind and what is before? / Ah, how sagacious and wise! / His fortunes departed, the worthy of his time. / Winds break down the Bodhi tree; / Waves submerge the boat of compassion. / The tiered stūpa is vainly erected; / The jewelled bells hang in empty space. / Cypresses chant in the nightly wind; / Pines give birth to evening mist. / The human realm shifts and alters; / Hills and valleys push and change. / Only the stone eulogy remains, / For a thousand years, for ten thousand years."