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English version Suddenly, he naturally understood the remaining texts and sentences. Afterwards, with experience, nothing was missed. Understanding the remaining texts and sentences refers to the verses or the entirety of it. The people in the village were amazed and astonished, saying, 'Is this what it means to 'review the old and know the new'?' 'Xiang' (乡) , according to the ancient system, was a village of two thousand five hundred households. 'Lü' (闾) refers to the gate of the village. The master's birth had its own special qualities. He was intelligent and handsome from a young age, and people were amazed and astonished. 'Wen Gu' (温故) etc., comes from the 'Analects', 'Reviewing the old and knowing the new can be a teacher.' However, the master's virtue was known from birth. At the age of fifteen (the age of learning), he encountered the defeat of Emperor Xiaoyuan. Hou Jing (侯景, personal name) fraudulently established himself. Emperor Jianwen (简文帝, emperor's name) changed the Taiqing era to the first year of the Dabao era. Emperor Yuan (元帝, emperor's name) knew that Emperor Jianwen was controlled by rebellious subjects and could not be used, so he preferred to change the era to the first year of Chengsheng in Jiangling. By the eleventh month of the third year, the country was defeated and captured by the Northern Wei. On the Xin Chou day of the twelfth month, the people of Northern Wei killed Emperor Yuan. The family and country were destroyed, and relatives were displaced. At the end of the Liang Dynasty, the country was destroyed, the royal family, the family was destroyed, the relatives were attached, displaced and transferred, and few survived. Sighing that glory and gatherings are difficult to last, and lamenting that decline and separation are easy to come. The power and number are impermanent, like the flowers in the garden showing in the spring dew, and many calyxes compete for fragrance. When encountering wind and rain, the remaining red falls to the ground, and it is easy to see the decline. It can be said that the decline and fall of the times are easy to come. In front of the Buddha statue in Changsha (长沙, place name, now Changsha, Hunan), he made a great vow, vowing to become a Śrāmaṇa (沙门, Buddhist monk), and take on the important task of promoting the Dharma. Changsha (长沙) is Tanzhou in Changsha Prefecture, Jingnan Road. In this prefecture, there is a very long sandbar in the river, so it is called Changsha. In front of the Buddha statue in the temple of that state, I don't know what the imperial dynasty called the temple after the change of dynasty. However, the master was born in Jingzhou, which belongs to Jinghu North Road, now Jiangling, and has been changed to Jingmen Army. Moreover, the master was young and the journey was far away. There were often special places there, so he went to pay homage. 'Hong' (弘) also means to promote. 'Shi' (誓) means to control. Promoting great vows uses the Four Great Vows to restrain one's heart. Śrāmaṇa (沙门) is translated into Chinese as 'diligent cessation', diligently cultivating good fruits and ceasing all evil deeds. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 。肩担曰荷。背持曰负也。
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既精诚感通。梦彼瑞像飞临宅庭。授金色手。从窗隙入。三遍摩顶。由是深厌家狱。思灭苦本。 瑞像即长沙佛也。隙。棂也。深厌家狱者。瑜伽论云。在家囚缚犹若牢狱。出家放旷犹若虚空。是故叹云身为苦本也。 但二亲恩爱不时听许。 前云父母遏绝不听数往者即此意也。 虽惟将顺而寝哺不安。 惟唯同也。唯恭于诺。曲礼云。父召无诺。唯而起听。不敢逆故。其顺也。寝者眠也。哺者食也。而役心出家。所以眠食不安也。 乃刻檀写像。披藏寻经。晓夜礼诵。念念相续。 刻檀。雕像也。写像彩𦘕也。对像则顶礼。持经则诵习。 当拜佛时。举身投地。恍焉如梦。见极高山。临于大海。澄渟蓊郁。更相显映。 恍者恍惚也。如入定像。历历似梦。高山者即大师后归天台作放生会。船出海海口。望山秀美。昔梦游海畔正似于此今。以荆碑考之。为僧受具后梦。今章安说未出家时所梦也。南山传中说住瓦官寺时所梦。有异于此也。 山顶有僧。扣手唤上。须臾申臂至于山麓。接引令登。入一伽蓝。见所造像在彼殿内。 僧即定光也。彼处有扣手石存焉。伽蓝即修禅寺。今云大慈寺。梦见者后相前现也。 现代汉语译本：肩上扛着叫做‘荷’，背上背着叫做‘负’。 因为至诚感应，梦见那尊瑞像（吉祥的佛像）飞临到自家宅院，伸出金色的手，从窗户缝隙进来，三次摩他的头顶。因此，他深深厌恶家庭的束缚，想要断灭痛苦的根源。 瑞像就是长沙佛（指长沙寺的佛像）。隙，指窗棂。‘深厌家狱’，瑜伽论中说，在家就像被囚禁在牢狱中，出家就像放飞在虚空中。所以感叹说身体是痛苦的根源。 只是父母恩爱，一时不肯答应他的请求。 前面说父母阻止不让他经常前往，就是这个意思。 虽然只是顺从父母，但睡觉吃饭都不安稳。 惟，与‘唯’相同，表示恭敬地应诺。《曲礼》中说，父亲呼唤，不要说‘诺’，要说‘唯’然后起身听命，因为不敢违逆。这就是顺从。寝，是睡觉。哺，是吃饭。因为一心想着出家，所以睡觉吃饭都不安稳。 于是雕刻檀木佛像，抄写经书，寻找经文，早晚礼拜诵读，念念相续不断。 刻檀，是雕刻檀木像。写像，是用彩笔绘画佛像。对着佛像就顶礼膜拜，拿着经书就诵读学习。 当他拜佛时，全身扑倒在地，恍惚间如同做梦，看见一座极高的山，面临着大海，清澈平静而茂盛，互相辉映。 恍，是恍惚。如同入定时的景象，清晰得像做梦。高山，就是大师后来回到天台山举办放生法会，船只驶出海口时，望见的山峰秀美，与昔日梦中游历海边的景象非常相似。用荆碑来考证，这是僧人受具足戒后所做的梦。现在章安说这是未出家时所做的梦。南山传中说这是住在瓦官寺时所做的梦，与此有所不同。 山顶上有个僧人，拍手呼唤他上去。一会儿，伸出手臂到山脚下，接引他登上山。进入一座伽蓝（寺庙），看见自己所造的佛像就在那殿内。 僧人就是定光（佛）。那里有拍手石存在。伽蓝就是修禅寺，现在叫做大慈寺。梦中所见是后来景象的提前显现。
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English version: To carry on the shoulder is called 'he' (荷), to carry on the back is called 'fu' (负). Because of sincere and profound connection, he dreamed that the auspicious image (Ruixiang, 吉祥的佛像) flew to his house, extended a golden hand, entered through the window gap, and touched his head three times. Therefore, he deeply loathed the bondage of family and wanted to extinguish the root of suffering. The auspicious image is the Changsha Buddha (Changsha Fo, 长沙佛 - referring to the Buddha statue in Changsha Temple). 'Xi' (隙) refers to the window lattice. 'Deeply loathed the prison of home', the Yoga-sastra says that being at home is like being imprisoned in a jail, while leaving home is like being released into the void. Therefore, it is lamented that the body is the root of suffering. It's just that his parents loved him and wouldn't agree to his request for a while. The previous statement that his parents prevented him from going frequently means this. Although he only obeyed his parents, he was uneasy while sleeping and eating. 'Wei' (惟) is the same as 'wei' (唯), expressing respectful agreement. The Book of Rites says that when the father calls, do not say 'Nuo' (诺), but say 'Wei' (唯) and then get up to listen, because one dares not disobey. This is obedience. 'Qin' (寝) is sleeping. 'Bu' (哺) is eating. Because he was focused on leaving home, he was uneasy while sleeping and eating. So he carved sandalwood Buddha statues, copied scriptures, searched for sutras, and recited them day and night, with continuous thoughts. 'Ke tan' (刻檀) is carving sandalwood statues. 'Xie xiang' (写像) is painting Buddha statues with colored brushes. He prostrates before the Buddha statues and studies the scriptures when holding them. When he was worshiping the Buddha, he threw his whole body to the ground, and in a trance, as if in a dream, he saw an extremely high mountain facing the sea, clear, tranquil, and lush, reflecting each other. 'Huang' (恍) means trance. Like the appearance of entering samadhi, vividly like a dream. The high mountain is the beautiful mountain that the master later saw when he returned to Tiantai Mountain to hold a life release ceremony, when the boat sailed out of the harbor, which was very similar to the scene of traveling by the sea in his dream. According to the Jing stele, this was a dream after the monk received full ordination. Now Zhang'an says that this was a dream before he left home. The Nanshan biography says that this was a dream when he lived in Waguan Temple, which is different from this. On the top of the mountain, there was a monk who clapped his hands and called him up. After a while, he stretched his arm to the foot of the mountain, led him to climb up, and entered a Sangharama (monastery), where he saw the statue he had made in that hall. The monk is Dingguang (定光 - a Buddha). There is a clapping stone there. The Sangharama is the Chan monastery, now called Daci Temple (大慈寺). What was seen in the dream was a premonition of later events. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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见所造像。即前谓刻檀写像也。梦中见者乃精诚所感也。 梦里悲泣而陈所愿。愿学得三世佛法。对千部论师说之无碍。 西土天亲始学小乘。不信摩诃衍法。造论五百部申述小乘。后因兄无著开导。既悟大乘之意。方援刀欲截舌忏谢。无著止之曰。昔以舌毁。今以舌赞。足。矣于是复造五百部论赞述大乘。时号为千部论师。智者愿。设遇此俦。宏才博赡。我亦对扬无惮。况金陵硕匠如济忍两琼等单轮只翼者。又何足扣大师所蕴耶。 不唐世间四事恩惠。 唐则虚也。四事即饮食．衣服．卧具．医药等也。 申臂僧举手指像而复语云。汝当居此。汝当终此。 大师江南散众。初归天台。方见定光以叙梦事。下文所载甚是分明。 既从窹已。方见己身对佛而伏。梦中之泪委地成流。悲喜交怀精勤逾至。 窹。觉也。如成流者。泪之澘然如水之流。悲喜者。悲世俗不睹。喜自身得见也。逾者过也。至者甚也。 后遭二亲殄丧。丁艰茶毒。 此一节文与荆碑不同。彼以亲在求出家。此云二亲丧而离俗。荆碑云。六师欲挈锡遍览诸方胜概。辞其母。母曰。子今远游。父母甘旨依何人耶。师运慈心。指其茅化为稻。指其水化为油。今有茅穗村油河存焉。余尝问游 现代汉语译本 见所造像。即指之前所说的雕刻檀木、描绘佛像。梦中见到，是由于精诚所感。 梦里悲伤哭泣，陈述自己的愿望：希望学得三世诸佛的佛法，能对千部论师说法而没有障碍。 西土的 Vasubandhu (天亲，人名) 最初学习小乘佛法，不相信大乘佛法。他造了五百部论著来阐述小乘。后来因为哥哥 Asanga (无著，人名) 的开导，领悟了大乘的意义，于是拿起刀想割掉舌头来忏悔谢罪。Asanga (无著) 阻止他说：‘过去用舌头诽谤，现在用舌头赞美，足够了。’于是 Vasubandhu (天亲) 又造了五百部论著来赞述大乘，当时号称为千部论师。智者 (智者大师，人名) 愿想，假设遇到这样博学多才的人，我也可以无所畏惧地与他对扬辩论。更何况金陵那些像济忍、两琼等只能单轮只翼的人，又怎么能探究大师所蕴含的佛法呢？ 不虚度世间的饮食、衣服、卧具、医药等四事供养的恩惠。 ‘唐’是虚的意思。四事指的是饮食、衣服、卧具、医药等。 申臂僧举起手指着佛像，又说：‘你应该住在这里，你应该终老在这里。’ 智者大师在江南解散大众，最初回到天台山，才见到定光法师并叙述梦中的事情。下文所记载的非常明白。 从睡梦中醒来后，才看到自己正对着佛像伏拜。梦中的眼泪滴落在地上，汇聚成水流。悲伤和喜悦交织在心中，更加精进勤奋。 ‘窹’是醒觉的意思。‘如成流者’，形容眼泪流淌的样子像水流一样。‘悲喜者’，悲伤世俗之人不能得见，喜悦自己能够得见。‘逾’是超过的意思，‘至’是极甚的意思。 后来遭遇父母相继去世，服丧期间饱受痛苦。 这一节文字与荆州碑文不同。荆州碑文说的是父母健在时求出家，这里说的是父母去世后才离开世俗。荆州碑文说：‘六师想要拿着锡杖遍览各处名胜，辞别他的母亲。母亲说：你现在要远游，父母的饮食依靠谁呢？’智者大师运用慈悲心，指着茅草使其化为稻米，指着水使其化为油。现在还有茅穗村、油河存在。我曾经问过游历的人。