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必弘道。时信浅薄莫知祈禀。建武元年还反罽宾。后竺佛图澄还述其德业。皆追恨焉。捡蓄徒养众清雅有则。说法教化如风靡草。晋咸康中沙门僧建。于月支国得僧祇尼羯磨及戒本。升平元年二月八日。洛阳请外国沙门昙摩羯多为立戒坛。晋沙门释道场以戒因缘经为难云。其法不成。因浮舟于泗。捡等四人同坛上从大僧以受具戒。晋土有比丘尼亦捡为始也。当其羯磨之日。殊香芬馥。阖众同闻。莫不欣叹加其敬仰。善修戒行志学不休。信施虽多随得随散。常自后己每先于人。到升平未。忽复闻前香并见赤气。有一女人手把五色花自空而下。捡见欣然因语众曰。好持后事我今行矣。执手辞别腾空而上。所行之路有似虹霓。直属于天。时年七十矣。 伪赵建贤寺安令首尼传二 安令首。本姓徐。东莞人也。父忡仕伪赵为外兵郎。令首幼聪敏好学。言论清绮雅性虚淡。不乐人间。从容闲静。以佛法自娱不愿求娉。父曰。汝应外属何得如此。首曰。端心业道绝想人外。毁誉不动廉正自足。何必三从然后为礼。父曰。汝欲独善一身。何能兼济父母。首曰。立身行道方欲度脱一切。何况二亲耶。忡以问佛图澄。澄曰。君归家洁斋三日竟可来。忡从之。澄以茵支子磨麻油傅忡右掌。令忡视之。见一沙门在大众中说法。形 现代汉语译本：必定要弘扬佛法。当时人们的信仰浅薄，没有人知道祈求佛法。建武元年，他返回罽宾（Kashmir）。后来竺佛图澄（Zhu Fotucheng）还讲述了他的德行和事业，人们都追悔莫及。他约束管理门徒，供养大众，清正高雅，很有规矩。说法教化，就像风吹倒草一样迅速。晋朝咸康年间，沙门僧建（Sengjian）在月支国（Yuezhi）得到了僧祇尼羯磨（Sengqi Nikarma）以及戒本。升平元年二月八日，在洛阳请外国沙门昙摩羯多（Dharmakara）设立戒坛。晋朝沙门释道场（Shi Daochang）以《戒因缘经》为难，说这种方法不能成功。于是（僧建等）乘船到泗水。僧捡（Sengjian）等四人在同一个戒坛上，跟随大僧接受具足戒。晋朝有比丘尼，也是从僧捡开始的。当举行羯磨仪式的时候，特殊的香味芬芳浓郁，所有人都闻到了，没有不高兴赞叹，更加敬仰他的。他努力修行戒律，立志学习不停止。信徒布施的财物虽然很多，但他随得随散，常常把自己放在后面，总是先为别人着想。到了升平末年，忽然又闻到之前的香味，并且看到红色的光芒。有一个女人手里拿着五色花，从空中降落。僧捡看到后很高兴，于是对大家说：‘好好地处理后事，我现在要走了。’他执手告别，腾空而上，所走过的路就像彩虹一样，直接通向天空。当时他七十岁了。 伪赵建贤寺安令首尼传二 安令首（An Lingshou），本姓徐（Xu），是东莞（Dongguan）人。她的父亲徐忡（Xu Chong）在伪赵（Pseudo-Zhao）做官，担任外兵郎。安令首从小就聪明好学，言谈清丽，性情高雅淡泊，不喜欢世俗生活。她从容安静，以佛法自娱，不愿意出嫁。她的父亲说：‘你应该嫁人，怎么能这样呢？’安令首说：‘专心修习佛法，断绝人世间的想法。不为毁誉所动，廉洁正直，自给自足，何必一定要遵守三从四德的礼节呢？’她的父亲说：‘你只想自己修身养性，怎么能兼顾父母呢？’安令首说：‘我树立自身，奉行正道，正是想要度脱一切众生，更何况是父母双亲呢？’徐忡把这件事问佛图澄（Fotucheng）。佛图澄说：‘你回家斋戒三天，就可以来了。’徐忡听从了他的话。佛图澄用茵支子磨麻油涂在徐忡的右掌上，让徐忡看。徐忡看到一个沙门在大众中说法，形态...
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English version: He was bound to propagate the Dharma. At that time, people's faith was shallow, and no one knew to pray to the Dharma. In the first year of Jianwu, he returned to Kashmir (Jibin). Later, Zhu Fotucheng also recounted his virtues and deeds, and people all regretted it. He restrained and managed his disciples, provided for the masses, and was upright and elegant, with rules. His preaching and teaching were as swift as the wind blowing down grass. During the Xiankang period of the Jin Dynasty, the Shramana Sengjian obtained the Sangha Nikarma and the Vinaya text in Yuezhi. On the eighth day of the second month of the first year of Shengping, he invited the foreign Shramana Dharmakara to set up an ordination platform in Luoyang. The Jin Dynasty Shramana Shi Daochang challenged it with the 'Karma Hetu Sutra', saying that this method would not succeed. So (Sengjian, etc.) took a boat to the Si River. Sengjian and four others received the complete precepts on the same ordination platform, following the great Sangha. The Jin Dynasty had Bhikkhunis, also starting from Sengjian. When the Karma ceremony was held, a special fragrance was rich and fragrant, and everyone smelled it, and no one was unhappy to praise it, and they admired him even more. He worked hard to practice the precepts, determined to study without stopping. Although the alms given by believers were many, he scattered them as he received them, often putting himself behind and always thinking of others first. At the end of Shengping, he suddenly smelled the previous fragrance again and saw a red light. A woman with five-colored flowers in her hand descended from the sky. Sengjian was very happy when he saw it, so he said to everyone: 'Take good care of the aftermath, I am leaving now.' He shook hands and said goodbye, soaring into the sky, the road he walked was like a rainbow, directly leading to the sky. He was seventy years old at that time. Biography of Nun An Lingshou of Jianxian Temple in Pseudo-Zhao, Part Two An Lingshou, whose original surname was Xu, was from Dongguan. Her father, Xu Chong, served as a foreign military officer in Pseudo-Zhao. An Lingshou was intelligent and studious from a young age, her speech was clear and beautiful, and her temperament was elegant and indifferent. She did not enjoy worldly life. She was calm and quiet, entertained herself with the Buddha's Dharma, and was unwilling to marry. Her father said, 'You should marry, how can you be like this?' An Lingshou said, 'Focus on cultivating the path of Dharma, cut off thoughts of the human world. Unmoved by praise or criticism, honest and upright, self-sufficient, why must I follow the rituals of the three obediences and four virtues?' Her father said, 'You only want to cultivate yourself, how can you take care of your parents?' An Lingshou said, 'I establish myself and practice the right path, precisely to liberate all beings, let alone my parents?' Xu Chong asked Fotucheng about this matter. Fotucheng said, 'Go home and fast for three days, and then you can come.' Xu Chong followed his words. Fotucheng used Yinzhi seeds to grind sesame oil and apply it to Xu Chong's right palm, and asked Xu Chong to look at it. Xu Chong saw a Shramana preaching among the crowd, his form... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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状似女。具以白澄。澄曰。是君女先身。出家益物往事如此。若从其志。方当荣拔六亲令君富贵。生死大苦海向得其边。忡还许之。首便剪落从澄乃净捡尼受戒。立建贤寺。澄以石勒所遗剪花纳七条衣及象鼻澡灌与之。博览群籍经目必诵。思致渊深神照详远。一时道学莫不宗焉。因其出家者二百余人。又造五六精舍。匪惮勤苦皆得修立。石虎敬之。擢父忡为黄门侍郎清河太守。 司州西寺智贤尼传三 智贤。本姓赵。常山人也。父珍扶柳县令。贤幼有雅操志概贞立。及在缁衣戒行修备。神情凝远旷然不杂。太守杜霸笃信黄老憎嫉释种。符下诸寺克日简汰。制格高峻非凡所行。年少怖惧皆望风奔骇。唯贤独无惧容兴居自若。集城外射堂皆是耆德。简试之日尼众盛壮唯贤而已。霸先试贤以格。格皆有余。贤仪观清雅辞吐辩丽。霸密挟邪心逼贤独住。贤识其意誓不毁戒法。不苟存身命抗言拒之。霸怒以刀斫贤二十余疮。闷绝躄地。霸去乃苏。倍加精进菜斋苦节。门徒百余人。常如水乳。及符坚伪立闻风敬重。为制织绣袈裟。三岁方成。价直百万。后住司州西寺。弘显正法开长信行。晋太和中年七十余。诵正法华经。犹日夜一遍。其所住处众鸟依栖。经行之时鸣呼随逐云。 弘农北岳妙相尼传四 妙 现代汉语译本： （她）看起来像个女子。全都告诉了澄（释道澄，人名）。澄说：‘这是你女儿的前世。出家有益于世事，往事就是这样。如果顺从她的志向，正当使六亲荣耀显达，使你富贵。生死的大苦海将要到达边际。’忡（女子的父亲）答应了她。她的头发就被剪落，跟随澄于是成为净捡尼并受戒。建立建贤寺。澄把石勒（后赵皇帝）所遗赠的剪花纳七条衣和象鼻澡灌给了她。她广泛阅读各种书籍，看过就一定能背诵。思虑深刻，见解深远。一时的佛学之士没有不以她为宗师的。因为她而出家的人有二百多人。又建造了五六所精舍。不害怕勤劳辛苦，都能够修建完成。石虎（石勒之侄，后赵皇帝）敬重她。提拔她的父亲忡为黄门侍郎、清河太守。 司州西寺智贤尼传三 智贤（尼姑法号），本姓赵，是常山人。她的父亲赵珍是扶柳县令。智贤从小就有高雅的品行，志向坚定。等到她穿上僧衣，戒行修持完备。精神凝练深远，旷达而不杂乱。太守杜霸（人名）笃信黄老之术，憎恨嫉妒佛教。下令给各个寺庙，规定日期筛选淘汰僧尼。制定的标准很高很严，不是一般人能做到的。年轻的僧尼害怕恐惧，都闻风逃散。只有智贤没有害怕的样子，行动起居如常。聚集在城外射堂的都是年长的有德之人。筛选测试的那天，尼姑们人很多，但只有智贤一人而已。杜霸先用标准来测试智贤。智贤都超过了标准。智贤的仪容外表清雅，说话辩论有文采。杜霸暗中怀着邪恶的心思，逼迫智贤独自居住。智贤知道他的意思，发誓不毁坏戒律，不苟且偷生，抗拒他的要求。杜霸愤怒地用刀砍了智贤二十多刀，（智贤）昏闷倒地。杜霸离开后她才苏醒。更加精进，吃斋戒荤，生活简朴。门徒有一百多人，常常像水和乳一样融合。等到符坚（前秦皇帝）虚伪地建立政权，听到她的名声，敬重她。为她制作织绣的袈裟，三年才完成，价值一百万。后来住在司州西寺，弘扬显正法，开启长信行。晋太和年间，年龄七十多岁，诵读《正法华经》，仍然日夜一遍。她所居住的地方，众鸟依附栖息。经行的时候，鸣叫着跟随，（就像在）说。 弘农北岳妙相尼传四 妙（尼姑法号）
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English version: She looked like a woman. (The details) were all told to Cheng (Shi Dao Cheng, a person's name). Cheng said, 'This is your daughter's previous life. Leaving home benefits the world, and the past was like this. If you follow her aspirations, it is right to make her six relatives glorious and prominent, and make you rich and noble. The great sea of suffering of birth and death is about to reach its edge.' Chong (the woman's father) agreed to her. Her hair was then cut off, and she followed Cheng to become a Jingjian nun and received the precepts. She established Jianxian Temple. Cheng gave her the seven-striped robe with cut flowers and the elephant-trunk bathing pot that Shi Le (Emperor of Later Zhao) had left behind. She read various books extensively, and she could recite them after reading them once. Her thoughts were profound, and her insights were far-reaching. The Buddhist scholars of the time all regarded her as their master. More than two hundred people became monks because of her. She also built five or six exquisite houses. Not afraid of hard work, they were all able to complete the construction. Shi Hu (Shi Le's nephew, Emperor of Later Zhao) respected her. He promoted her father, Chong, to be a Yellow Gate Attendant and the Prefect of Qinghe. Biography of Nun Zhixian of Xisi Temple in Sizhou, Part 3 Zhixian (nun's Dharma name), whose original surname was Zhao, was a native of Changshan. Her father, Zhao Zhen, was the magistrate of Fuliu County. Zhixian had elegant character from a young age, and her aspirations were firm. When she put on the monastic robes, her precepts and practices were complete. Her spirit was condensed and far-reaching, broad and unadulterated. Prefect Du Ba (a person's name) was a devout believer in Huang-Lao philosophy and hated and envied Buddhism. He issued orders to the temples, stipulating a date for screening and eliminating monks and nuns. The standards set were very high and strict, and not something that ordinary people could achieve. The young monks and nuns were afraid and frightened, and they all fled at the mere sound of the wind. Only Zhixian had no appearance of fear, and her actions and daily life were as usual. Those gathered in the shooting hall outside the city were all elderly and virtuous people. On the day of the screening test, there were many nuns, but only Zhixian was there. Du Ba first tested Zhixian with the standards. Zhixian exceeded all the standards. Zhixian's appearance was elegant, and her speech and arguments were eloquent. Du Ba secretly harbored evil intentions and forced Zhixian to live alone. Zhixian knew his intentions and vowed not to destroy the precepts, not to survive by compromising, and resisted his demands. Du Ba angrily slashed Zhixian more than twenty times with a knife, and (Zhixian) fainted and fell to the ground. She woke up after Du Ba left. She became even more diligent, ate vegetarian food, and lived a simple life. She had more than a hundred disciples, who were often as harmonious as water and milk. When Fu Jian (Emperor of Former Qin) falsely established his regime, he heard of her reputation and respected her. He had a woven and embroidered kasaya made for her, which took three years to complete and was worth one million. Later, she lived in Xisi Temple in Sizhou, promoted and manifested the correct Dharma, and opened the practice of long-term faith. During the Taihe period of the Jin Dynasty, she was over seventy years old and recited the Zheng Fa Hua Sutra, still once every day and night. Where she lived, many birds depended on her for shelter. When she walked, they chirped and followed, (as if) saying. Biography of Nun Miaoxiang of Beiyue in Hongnong, Part 4 Miao (nun's Dharma name) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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相。本姓张。名珮华。弘农人也。父茂家素富盛。相早习经训。十五适太子舍人北地皇甫达达居丧失礼。相恶之告求离绝因请出家。父并从之。精勤蔬食。游心慧藏明达法相。住弘农北岳荫林面野。徒属甚多悦志闲旷。遁影其中二十余载。励精苦行久而弥笃。每说法度人。常惧听者不能专志。或涕泣以示之。是故其所启训皆能弘益。晋永和中弘农太守请七日斋。座上白衣咨请佛法言挟不逊。相正色曰。君非直见慢亦大轻邦宰。何用无礼苟出人间耶。于是称疾而退。当时道俗咸叹服焉。后枕疾累日临终怡悦。顾语弟子曰。不问穷达生必有死。今日别矣。言绝而终。 建福寺康明感尼传五 明感。本姓朱。高平人也。世奉大法经。为虏贼所获。欲以为妻。备加苦楚。誓不受辱。谪使牧羊经历十载。怀归转笃反途莫由。常念三宝兼愿出家。忽遇一比丘就请五戒。仍以观世音经授之。因得习诵昼夜不休。愿得还家立五层塔。不胜忧念逃走东行。初不识路昼夜兼涉。径入一山见有斑虎。去之数步初甚恐懅小却意定心愿逾至。遂随虎而行。积日弥旬得达青州。将入村落虎便不见。至州复为明伯连所虏。音问至家夫儿迎赎。家人拘制其志未谐苦身。勤精三年。乃遂专笃禅行戒品无愆。脱有小犯辄累晨忏悔要见瑞相然后乃 现代汉语译本： 相，原本姓张，名叫珮华（pèi huá），是弘农（Hóngnóng）人。他的父亲茂（Mào）家境非常富裕。相从小就学习经书训典。十五岁时，嫁给了太子舍人北地（Běidì）的皇甫达（Huángfǔ Dá）。皇甫达居丧期间行为不合礼仪，相厌恶他，请求解除婚约，因此请求出家。他的父亲都同意了。他精进勤奋，吃素食，用心研究佛法的智慧，通达佛法的表相。他住在弘农北岳（Běiyue）的荫林（Yinlin），面向原野。他的门徒非常多，他喜欢清静空旷的环境，隐居在那里二十多年。他努力修行，时间越久越坚定。每次说法度化他人，常常担心听众不能专心致志，有时会哭泣来警示他们。因此，他所开导训诫的都能使人受益。晋朝永和（Yǒnghé）年间，弘农太守邀请他进行七日斋戒。宴席上，一位平民咨询佛法，言语中带着不逊。相严肃地说：‘您不仅轻慢了我，也大大轻视了地方长官。为何如此无礼，随便在人世间胡言乱语呢？’于是称病退席。当时，僧人和俗人都感叹佩服他。后来，他因病卧床多日，临终时心情愉悦。他回头对弟子们说：‘无论贫穷还是显达，生命终究有死亡。今天就要告别了。’说完就去世了。 建福寺（Jiànfúsì）康明感（Kāng Mínggǎn）尼传五 明感，原本姓朱，是高平（Gāopíng）人。世代信奉佛法经典。她被虏贼抓获，想要让她做妻子，对她百般折磨，但她发誓不接受侮辱。被贬去放羊，经历了十年。她思念家乡的心情越来越强烈，但回家的路却无从得知。她常常念诵三宝（sānbǎo），并希望出家。忽然遇到一位比丘（bǐqiū），向他请求受五戒（wǔjiè）。比丘还将《观世音经》（Guānshìyīn Jīng）传授给她。她因此得以学习背诵，日夜不停。她发愿回到家乡后要建造一座五层塔。因为忧愁思念而逃走，向东走去。起初不认识路，日夜兼程。径直进入一座山，看到一只斑斓的老虎。她离开几步，起初非常害怕，稍微退却，但心意坚定，愿望更加强烈。于是跟随老虎而行。经过多日，大约十天，到达了青州（Qīngzhōu）。将要进入村落时，老虎就不见了。到达青州后，又被明伯连（Míng Bólián）所虏。消息传到家中，丈夫和儿子前来赎回。家人拘禁她，她的志向没有实现，只能苦修自身。勤奋精进三年，才得以专心禅修，持守戒律没有过失。即使有小的过犯，也会连续几天忏悔，一定要见到吉祥的征兆才停止。