--- title: "五燈會元 · 二十三祖鶴勒那尊者" description: "五燈會元由宋代高僧普濟編撰，成書於南宋淳祐年間，是中國禪宗重要典籍之一。該書彙編了禪宗五家七宗的傳法譜系與公案語錄，包括法眼、雲門、曹洞、臨濟、溈仰五宗祖師的機鋒對話與悟道因緣，系統整理了禪宗從初祖達摩至唐宋時期的發展脈絡。全書共二十卷，以燈燈相傳為喻，展現了禪宗心法傳承的歷史軌跡。作為研究唐宋禪宗思想的核心文獻，五燈會元不僅是佛教史學的重要資料，更是禪門修行者參究心性的權威指南，在中國佛教史上具有不可替代的地位。" url: "https://rushiwowen.co/en/r/cma8xe3m80j9cl404hgma73s3" --- ### 二十三祖鶴勒那尊者勒那梵語。鶴即華言。以常感羣鶴戀慕故名耳 > Twenty-Third Patriarch, the Venerable Hēlènà"Lènà" is Sanskrit; "Hè" (Crane) is its Chinese rendering. He was so named because cranes were often drawn to him in admiration. 月氏國人也。姓婆羅門。父千勝。母金光。以無子故。禱于七佛金幢。即夢須彌山頂一神童。持金環云。我來也。覺而有孕。年七歲。遊行聚落。覩民間淫祀。乃入廟叱之曰。汝妄興禍福。幻惑於人。歲費牲牢。傷害斯甚。言訖。廟貌忽然而壞。由是鄉黨謂之聖子。年二十二出家。三十遇摩拏羅尊者。付法眼藏。行化至中印度。彼國王名無畏海。崇信佛道。祖為說正法次。王忽見二人緋素服拜祖。王問曰。此何人也。祖曰。此是日月天子。吾昔曾為說法。故來禮拜。良久不見。唯聞異香。王曰。日月國土。總有多少。祖曰。千釋迦佛所化世界。各有百億迷盧日月。我若廣說。即不能盡。王聞忻然。時祖演無上道。度有緣眾。以上足龍子早夭。有兄師子。博通強記。事婆羅門。厥師既逝。弟復云亡。乃歸依尊者而問曰。我欲求道。當何用心。祖曰。汝欲求道。無所用心。曰。既無用心。誰作佛事。祖曰。汝若有用。即非功德。汝若無作。即是佛事。經云。我所作功德。而無我所故。師子聞是語已。即入佛慧。時祖忽指東北問曰。是何氣象。師子曰。我見氣如白虹。貫乎天地。復有黑氣五道。橫亘其中。祖曰。其兆云何。曰。莫可知矣。祖曰。吾滅後五十年。北天竺國當有難起。嬰在汝身。吾將滅矣。今以法眼付囑於汝。善自護持。乃說偈曰。認得心性時。可說不思議。了了無可得。得時不說知。師子比丘聞偈欣愜。然未曉將罹何難。祖乃密示之。言訖。現十八變。而歸寂。闍維畢。分舍利。各欲興塔。祖復現空中而說偈曰。一法一切法。一切一法攝。吾身非有無。何分一切塔。大眾聞偈。遂不復分。就䭾都場而建塔焉。即後漢獻帝二十年己丑歲也。 > This is the story of a man from the Yuezhi people, born into a Brahmin family. His father was Qian Sheng, and his mother was Jin Guang. Because they had no children, they prayed before the golden banner of the Seven Buddhas. In a dream, they saw a divine child atop Mount Sumeru, holding a golden ring, saying, "I have come." Upon waking, she became pregnant. At the age of seven, the boy wandered through villages and towns. Seeing the people's superstitious sacrificial rites, he entered a temple and scolded them, saying, "You falsely bring fortune and misfortune, deceiving people with illusions. Year after year, you waste livestock in sacrifice, causing great harm." As soon as he spoke, the temple idol suddenly crumbled. From then on, the villagers called him a holy child. He left home at twenty-two and at thirty met the Venerable Manora, who transmitted to him the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye. He then traveled and taught in central India, where the king, named Fearless Sea, deeply revered the Buddhist path. As the Master was expounding the true Dharma, the king suddenly saw two figures dressed in crimson and white bowing to the Master. The king asked, "Who are these people?" The Master replied, "These are the celestial beings of the sun and moon. I once taught them the Dharma, so they have come to pay their respects." After a while, they vanished, leaving only a strange fragrance. The king asked, "How many realms do the sun and moon cover?" The Master replied, "Each of the thousand Shakyamuni Buddhas' worlds contains hundreds of billions of Sumeru suns and moons. If I were to explain fully, it would be endless." The king was delighted to hear this. At this time, the Master taught the supreme Dharma and guided those with karmic affinities. Because his foremost disciple, Dragon Child, had passed away early, his elder brother, Lion, who was learned and had a powerful memory, had been following Brahmanism. After his teacher and brother both died, he came to take refuge with the Venerable Master and asked, "I wish to seek the Way—how should I apply my mind?" The Master said, "If you wish to seek the Way, you should not apply your mind at all." Lion asked, "If I don't apply my mind, then who does the work of Buddhahood?" The Master replied, "If you have a purpose, that is not merit. If you have no doing, that is the work of Buddhahood. The sutras say, 'The merit I perform is done without any sense of a self.'" Hearing these words, Lion instantly entered the wisdom of Buddhahood. At that moment, the Master suddenly pointed to the northeast and asked, "What kind of sign is that?" Lion said, "I see a vapor like a white rainbow, running through heaven and earth. There are also five black streaks crossing through it." The Master asked, "What does this omen indicate?" Lion replied, "It cannot be known." The Master said, "Fifty years after my passing, a calamity will arise in northern India, and it will fall upon you. I am about to depart. I now entrust the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye to you. Guard it well." He then spoke a verse: \*"When you recognize the nature of mind, You may speak of the ineffable. Clearly, nothing is to be grasped, And when you grasp it, it is not spoken as knowledge."\* The monk Lion heard this verse with joy and satisfaction, but he did not yet understand what calamity would befall him. The Master then secretly revealed it to him. After speaking, he manifested eighteen transformations and passed into stillness. After his cremation, as people were dividing the relics, each wishing to build a stupa, the Master appeared again in the sky and spoke a verse: \*"One Dharma is all dharmas, All are contained in one. My body is neither existent nor nonexistent— Why divide stupas over it?"\* When the assembly heard this verse, they no longer divided the relics, and built a stupa at that site. This took place in the twentieth year of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, the year of the Ox (209 CE).