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title: "比丘尼傳 · 6 建福寺智勝尼傳"
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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### 建福寺智勝尼傳六

> Biography of Nun Zhisheng of Jianfu Temple, Part 6

智勝，本姓徐，長安人也，寓居會稽于其三世。六歲而隨王母出都遊瓦官寺，見招提整峻寶飾嚴華，澘然泣涕，仍祈剪落。王母問之，具述此意，謂其幼稚而未許之也。宋季多難，四民失業，時事紛紜，奄冉積載。年將二十方得出家，住建福寺，獨行無倫，絕塵難範，聽受《大涅槃經》，一聞能持。後研律藏，功不再受，總持之譽，僉然改目。自製數十卷義疏，辭約而旨遠，義隱而理妙。逢涅不淄，遇磨不磷。大明中有一男子，詭期抱梁，欲規不遜。勝剋意淵深，雅操壁立，正色告眾，眾錄付官，守戒清淨如護明珠。時莊嚴寺曇斌法師弟子僧宗、玄趣，共直佛殿慢藏致盜，乃失菩薩瓔珞及七寶澡罐。斌衣鉢之外室如懸磬，無以為備，憂慨輟講，閉房三日。勝宣告四部，旬月備辦，德感化行皆類此也。齊文惠帝聞風，雅相接召，每延入宮講說眾經，司徒竟陵文宣王倍崇敬焉。勝志貞南金，心皎北雪，裁箴尼眾，實允物望。令旨仍使為寺主，闔眾愛敬如奉嚴尊。從定林寺僧遠法師受菩薩戒。座側常置香鑪，勝乃捻香，遠止之曰：「不取火，已信宿矣。」所置之香遂氛氳流煙。咸歎其肅恭表應若斯也。永明中作聖僧齋，攝心祈想，忽聞空中彈指合掌側聽。勝居寺三十年，未嘗赴齋會遊踐貴賤，清閑靜處係念思惟，故流芳不遠。文惠帝特加供俸，日月充盈，締搆房宇，闔寺崇華。勝捨衣鉢為宋齊七帝造攝山寺石像。永明十年寢疾，忽見金車玉宇悉來迎接。到四月五日告諸弟子曰：「吾今逝矣。」弟子皆泣。乃披衣出胸，胸有草書佛字，字體鮮白色相明潤。八日正中而卒也，年六十六。葬于鍾山。文帝給其湯藥，凶事所須並宜官備也。

> Zhisheng, whose family name was Xu, was a native of Chang'an. His family had lived in Kuaiji for three generations. At the age of six, he accompanied his grandmother to the capital and visited the Waguan Temple. Seeing the temple's majestic architecture and exquisite ornaments, he wept and asked to become a monk. His grandmother asked him why, and he explained his wish, but she thought he was too young and did not allow it. During the late Song dynasty, times were troubled and people lost their livelihoods amid social upheaval. Years passed quietly. Only around the age of twenty did Zhisheng manage to enter monastic life. He resided at the Jianfu Temple, where he walked alone without equal, detached from worldly concerns—an example few could follow. When he listened to teachings on the \*Nirvana Sutra\*, he could grasp them after a single hearing. Later, when he studied the Monastic Code (Vinaya), he needed no second reading to master it. His reputation for total recall made everyone look upon him with newfound respect. He composed dozens of volumes of commentary, concise in wording yet profound in meaning, subtle in expression yet exquisite in insight. Like something that cannot be stained by mud or worn down by grinding, his integrity was unshakable. During the Daming era, a man with sinister intentions once attempted to deceive him, but Zhisheng, with deep resolve and upright conduct, firmly confronted him before the assembly. The man was handed over to the authorities. Zhisheng guarded his precepts with the same care one would protect a precious pearl. At that time, two disciples of the monk Tanbin from Zhuangyan Temple were careless in guarding the Buddha hall, and thieves stole the Bodhisattva's necklaces and seven-jewel bathing vessels. Tanbin owned nothing beyond his robes and begging bowl—his room was as bare as a hanging bell. Distressed and unable to make amends, he stopped lecturing and shut himself away for three days. Zhisheng announced the matter to the fourfold assembly, and within a month or so everything was fully replaced. Such was the power of his virtue to move and transform others. When Emperor Wen of Qi learned of his reputation, he respectfully invited Zhisheng to the palace to lecture on various scriptures. The Director of Retainers, Prince Jingling Wenxuan, held him in even deeper reverence. Zhisheng's aspirations were as pure as southern gold, his mind as bright as northern snow. He composed admonitions for nuns, and indeed earned the trust and respect of all. By imperial order he was made abbot of the temple, and the entire community revered him as they would a venerable master. He received the Bodhisattva precepts from Master Sengyuan of Dinglin Temple. A censer was always kept by the master's seat. One day, Zhisheng reached for incense, but Sengyuan stopped him, saying, "No need for fire—it has been burning for two nights already." The incense he had placed nonetheless began to flow with fragrant smoke. Everyone marveled at how his solemn reverence resonated in such signs. During the Yongming era, Zhisheng held a Saint Monks' feast. As he concentrated his mind in prayer, he suddenly heard a snap of fingers in the air, and he stood with palms pressed together, listening intently. Zhisheng lived at the temple for thirty years. He never attended ordinary gatherings or visited people of high or low rank. In quiet seclusion, he focused his mind in contemplation, and thus his fame did not spread widely. Emperor Wen of Qi granted him special support, with offerings flowing abundantly day after day. Rooms and halls were built until the entire temple stood in splendor. Zhisheng donated his own robes and alms bowl to fund stone images for the She Mountain Temple, dedicated to the seven emperors of the Song and Qi dynasties. In the tenth year of Yongming, he fell ill. Suddenly he saw golden chariots and jeweled palaces arriving to welcome him. On the fifth day of the fourth month, he told his disciples, "I am departing now." As they wept, he opened his robe to reveal his chest, where the character "Buddha" appeared written in cursive script—pale white in color, vivid and luminous in form. At noon on the eighth day, he passed away at the age of sixty-six. He was buried at Mount Zhong. Emperor Wen had provided him with medicine and medical care, and all funeral expenses were covered by the state.