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title: "比丘尼傳 · 3 崇聖寺僧敬尼傳"
description: "比丘尼传由南朝梁代僧官宝唱撰著于六世纪初。全书共四卷，收录了自西晋至梁代共六十五位比丘尼的传记。它详细记载了这些杰出尼师的修行经历、弘法事迹与神异感应，是研究中国早期佛教史，特别是女性修行者发展的重要第一手文献。作为中国乃至世界现存最早的比丘尼传记总集，该书不仅填补了佛教史传的空白，更彰显了比丘尼僧团在佛教发展中的重要地位与贡献，具有极高的史料与宗教价值。"
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### 崇聖寺僧敬尼傳三

> Biography of Nun Jingni of Chongsheng Temple, Part 3

僧敬，本姓李，會稽人也，寓居秣陵。僧敬在孕家人設會，請瓦官寺僧超、西寺曇芝尼，使二人指腹呼胎中兒為弟子。母代兒喚二人為師，約不問男女必令出家。將產之日，母夢神人語之曰：「可建八關。」即命經始。僧像未集，敬便生焉，聞空中語曰：「可與建安寺白尼作弟子。」母即從之。及年五六歲，聞人經唄輒能誦憶，讀經數百卷妙解日深，菜蔬刻己清風漸著。逮元嘉中，魯郡孔默出鎮廣州，携與同行。遇見外國鐵薩羅尼等來向宋都，並風節峻異，更從受戒。深悟無常，乃欲乘船泛海尋求聖跡，道俗禁閉，留滯嶺南三十餘載。風流所漸，獷俗移心，捨園宅施之者十有三家，共為立寺於潮亭，名曰「眾造」。宋明帝聞之，遠遣徵迎，番禺道俗大相悲戀。還都勅住崇聖寺，道俗向慕服其進止。丹陽樂遵為敬捨宅立寺，後遷居之。齊文惠帝、竟陵文宣王，並欽風德，䞋施無闕。年八十四，永明四年二月三日卒，葬于鍾山之陽。弟子造碑，中書侍郎吳興沈約製其文焉。

> Monk Jing, whose family name was Li, was a native of Kuaiji but resided in Moling. While still pregnant with Monk Jing, her family held a ceremonial gathering and invited the monks Chao of Waguan Temple and the nun Tan Zhi of Xi Temple. The two were asked to point at her womb and call the child within it their disciple. The mother, on behalf of her child, addressed the two as masters and vowed that regardless of the child's gender, it would be ordained as a monk or nun. On the day of delivery, her mother dreamed that a divine being told her: "You may establish an Eight Precepts ceremony." She immediately set plans in motion. Before the images of monks were assembled, Jing was born, and a voice was heard in the air saying: "She may be made the disciple of the nun Bai of Jian'an Temple." Her mother complied. By the age of five or six, whenever Jing heard people chanting scriptures, she could memorize them immediately. She read several hundred volumes of scriptures and her profound understanding deepened daily. She adhered to a simple vegetarian life and her pure reputation gradually spread. During the Yuanjia reign period, Kong Mo of Lu Commandery was appointed to govern Guangzhou and took her along. They encountered the foreign nun Teisara and others who were on their way to the Song capital, all of whom were distinguished by their noble conduct. Jing further received precepts from them. Deeply realizing the truth of impermanence, she wished to take a boat across the sea to seek sacred sites. However, both monastics and laypeople restrained her, and she remained detained in the Lingnan region for over thirty years. Her virtuous influence gradually transformed the rough local customs, and thirteen families donated their gardens and residences to establish a monastery for her at Chaoting, named "The Assembly-Built Monastery." When Emperor Ming of the Song dynasty heard of her, he sent an envoy from afar to summon her to the capital. The monastics and laypeople of Panyu were greatly grieved and reluctant to part with her. Upon returning to the capital, she was ordered to reside at Chongsheng Temple, where both clergy and laity admired her conduct and demeanor. Le Zun of Danyang donated her residence to establish a temple for Jing, where she later moved and resided. Emperor Wen Hui of the Qi dynasty and Prince Wenxuan of Jingling both revered her virtuous character and made generous offerings without fail. She passed away at the age of eighty-four on the third day of the second month in the fourth year of the Yongming reign, and was buried on the southern slope of Zhong Mountain. Her disciples erected a memorial stele, and the text was composed by Shen Yue of Wuxing, a mid-level official of the Secretariat.