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title: "景德傳燈錄 · 第十七祖僧伽難提"
description: "景德传灯录由宋代高僧道原编纂，成书于景德年间（1004-1007年），是中国佛教禅宗重要史传类典籍。全书共三十卷，收录自释迦牟尼至五代末年的禅宗祖师1701人，以法脉传承为脉络，记录历代禅师的机缘语录、公案典故。作为现存最早的传灯体著作，该书系统记载了禅宗五家七宗的传承体系，保存了大量珍贵史料，对研究中国禅宗发展史具有不可替代的价值。景德传灯录与五灯会元并称为禅宗两大灯录，被后世奉为禅门经典，不仅影响了宋明理学的发展，更成为东亚禅佛教传播的重要文献依据。"
url: "https://rushiwowen.co/en/r/cmaarbnrj004gjy04e90bo5cs"
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第十七祖僧伽難提者。室羅閥城寶莊嚴王之子也。生而能言。常讚佛事。七歲即厭世樂。以偈告其父母曰。

> The Seventeenth Patriarch, Sanghanandi, was the son of King Ratnavyuha of Shravasti. From birth, he could speak, and he constantly praised the Buddha's teachings. By the age of seven, he had already grown weary of worldly pleasures and addressed his parents with a verse.

稽首大慈父 和南骨血母我今欲出家 幸願哀愍故

> I bow in reverence to the Great Compassionate Father, And pay homage to my mother of flesh and blood. Now I wish to leave home and become a monk, Hoping you will look upon me with mercy and compassion.

父母固止之。遂終日不食。乃許其在家。出家號僧伽難提。復命沙門禪利多為之師。積十九載未曾退倦。尊者每自念言。身居王宮胡為出家。一夕天光下屬。見一路坦平不覺徐行。約十里許至大巖前。有石窟焉。乃燕寂于中。父既失子。即擯禪利多出國。訪尋其子不知所在。經十年。尊者得法受記已。行化至摩提國。忽有涼風襲眾身心悅適非常。而不知其然。尊者曰。此道德之風也。當有聖者出世嗣續祖燈乎。言訖。以神力攝諸大眾遊歷山谷。食頃至一峯下謂眾曰。此峯頂有紫雲如蓋。聖人居此矣。即與大眾徘徊久之。見山舍一童子持圓鑑直造尊者前。尊者問。汝幾歲耶。曰百歲。尊者曰。汝年尚幼何言百歲。曰我不會理正百歲耳。尊者曰。汝善機耶。曰佛言若人生百歲。不會諸佛機。未若生一日。而得決了之。師曰。汝手中者當何所表。童曰。諸佛大圓鑑內外無瑕翳。兩人同得見心眼皆相似。彼父母聞子語。即捨令出家。尊者携至本處。受具戒訖。名伽耶舍多。他時聞風吹殿銅鈴聲。尊者問師曰。鈴鳴耶風鳴耶。師曰。非風非鈴我心鳴耳。尊者曰。心復誰乎。師曰。俱寂靜故。尊者曰。善哉善哉。繼吾道者非子而誰。即付法偈曰。

> His parents firmly tried to stop him, but he refused to eat all day, so they allowed him to stay at home and become a monk, giving him the name Sanghanandi. They then appointed the shramana Chanliduo as his teacher. For nineteen years, he never slacked in his efforts. The elder often thought to himself, "Why should I, living in the royal palace, be a monk?" One night, a heavenly light shone down, revealing a smooth and level path, and he unconsciously walked along it. After about ten miles, he came to a great cliff with a stone cave, where he sat in silent meditation. When his father lost his son, he banished Chanliduo from the kingdom and searched everywhere for his son, but could not find him. After ten years, the elder, having received the Dharma and been given the prophecy, went to teach in the kingdom of Madi. Suddenly, a cool breeze swept over the crowd, filling them with extraordinary joy and comfort, though they knew not why. The elder said, "This is the breeze of virtue and the Way. A sage must be appearing in the world to continue the lamp of the patriarchs." With that, he used his spiritual powers to lead the crowd through valleys and mountains. In the time it took to eat a meal, they arrived at the foot of a peak, and he said to the crowd, "On this peak's summit, there are purple clouds like a canopy. A sage dwells here." He then wandered with the crowd for a long while, until they saw a child from a mountain dwelling holding a round mirror, who came straight to the elder. The elder asked, "How old are you?" The child replied, "A hundred years." The elder said, "You are still young, why do you speak of a hundred years?" The child said, "I do not understand principle, so it's truly a hundred years." The elder said, "Are you skillful in opportunity?" The child said, "The Buddha said, 'If a person lives a hundred years but does not understand the opportunity of all Buddhas, it is not as good as living one day and being able to understand and decide it.'" The teacher asked, "What does the mirror in your hand signify?" The child said, "The great round mirror of all Buddhas, flawless within and without. Two people together can see it, for their minds and eyes are alike." When the child's parents heard these words, they let him leave home. The elder took him back to his original place, and after he received the full precepts, he was given the name Gayashata. Another time, hearing the wind blowing the bronze bells on the palace, the elder asked his teacher, "Is it the bell ringing, or the wind ringing?" The teacher said, "It is neither the wind nor the bell—it is my mind ringing." The elder asked, "Then who is the mind?" The teacher said, "Both are silent and still." The elder said, "Excellent, excellent. Who but you will carry on my path?" He then gave the Dharma transmission verse, saying:

心地本無生 因地從緣起緣種不相妨 華果亦復爾

> The mind's ground is originally unborn, Yet from conditions, it arises. Conditions and seeds do not hinder each other, And so it is with blossoms and their fruit.

尊者付法已。右手攀樹而化。大眾議曰。尊者樹下歸寂。其垂蔭後裔乎。將奉全身於高原建塔。眾力不能舉。即就樹下起塔。當前漢昭帝十三年丁未歲也。

> The Venerable Master, having transmitted the Dharma, grasped a tree with his right hand and passed away. The assembly deliberated, saying, "The Master attained stillness beneath the tree—will his shade shelter future generations?" They planned to enshrine his entire body on the high plateau and build a stupa, but their collective strength could not lift it. So they raised a stupa right there beneath the tree. This occurred in the thirteenth year of Emperor Zhao of the Former Han Dynasty, in the year of Dingwei.