--- title: "醒世錄 · 感應緣" description: "醒世錄由清代居士徐昌治輯錄編纂，是一部重要的佛教勸善典籍。該書成於清初，輯錄了歷代高僧大德、儒釋道三教關於因果報應、修身養性的箴言與事跡。內容旨在勸化世人明辨善惡、覺悟人生、斷惡修善，強調因果法則的真實不虛。其語言通俗，事例生動，在民間流傳甚廣。作為一部融匯三教思想的善書，醒世錄在佛教通俗教化領域地位顯著，對推動民間道德風尚與佛教倫理實踐產生了深遠影響，是研究清代佛教民間化與善書文化的重要文獻。" url: "https://rushiwowen.co/en/r/cmgmzssqu091ql4046z3uujcu" --- ### 感應緣 > Stories of Spiritual Response 後漢明帝時，雒陽白馬寺，有攝摩騰，本中天竺人。善風儀，解大小乘經，常遊化為任。至漢永平三年中，明皇帝夜夢金人飛空而至，乃大集群臣以占所夢。通人傅毅奉答：「臣聞西域有神，其名曰佛。陛下所夢將必是乎！」帝以為然，即遣中郎蔡愔，博士弟子秦景等，使往天竺，尋訪佛法。愔等於彼，遇見摩騰，乃邀還漢地。騰誓志弘通，不憚疲苦，冒涉流沙，至乎雒邑。明帝甚加賞接，於城西門外，別立清舍以處之，名馬寺。傳云：外國國王，當毀破諸寺，唯招提寺未及毀壞。夜有一白馬，遶塔悲鳴，王即停壞諸寺，因改招提以為白馬。又白馬寺，有竺法蘭，是中天竺人，自言誦經論數萬章，為天竺學者之師。時蔡愔既至彼國，蘭與摩騰，共契遊化，遂相隨而來，同止少時，便善漢言，愔於西域獲經，即為翻譯。所謂《十地斷結》、《佛本行》、《四十二章經》等五部，漢地諸經之始也。 > During the reign of Emperor Ming of the Eastern Han Dynasty, at the White Horse Temple in Luoyang, there was a monk named Kasyapa Matanga, originally from central India. He was refined in manner and versed in both Mahayana and Hinayana scriptures, often traveling to spread the Dharma. In the third year of Yongping (60 CE), Emperor Ming dreamed one night of a golden figure flying through the air toward him. He gathered his ministers to interpret the dream. The learned傅毅 replied, "I have heard that in the Western Regions there is a deity called the Buddha. What Your Majesty dreamed of must surely be him!" The emperor agreed and sent the courtier Cai Yin and the scholar Qin Jing, among others, to India in search of the Buddhist teachings. When Cai Yin and his party arrived there, they encountered Matanga and invited him back to China. Matanga, resolute in his vow to propagate the Dharma and undaunted by hardship, crossed the desert and journeyed to Luoyang. Emperor Ming received him with great honor and had a pure retreat built outside the western gate of the city to house him, naming it the White Horse Temple. According to tradition, a foreign king once ordered the destruction of all temples, but only the Zhaoti Temple had not yet been destroyed. One night, a white horse circled the stupa, neighing in grief, and the king halted the destruction of the temples. For this reason, the Zhaoti Temple was renamed "White Horse." At the White Horse Temple, there was also Dharmaratna, a central Indian who claimed to have recited tens of thousands of chapters of scriptures and was a teacher to scholars in India. When Cai Yin arrived in that country, Dharmaratna and Matanga, sharing the same aspiration to spread the Dharma, journeyed together and returned with them. After a short time, he became proficient in Chinese. Cai Yin, having obtained scriptures in the Western Regions, had them translated. The so-called "Ten Grounds," "The Life of the Buddha," and the "Sutra of Forty-Two Chapters," among five works in total, mark the beginning of the Buddhist canon in China. 昔漢武帝，穿昆明池底，得黑灰，以問東方朔。朔云不經，可問西域胡僧。後法蘭既至，眾人追以問之。蘭云世界終盡，劫火洞燒，此灰是也。 > Once, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was digging the bottom of Kunming Lake when he discovered some black ashes. He asked Dongfang Shuo about them. Dongfang Shuo said, "I don't know about this matter; you might ask a foreign monk from the Western Regions." Later, when the monk Dharmaratna arrived, people questioned him about it. He said, "When the world comes to an end, the fire of kalpa will burn everything to ashes—these are those ashes." 案《周書．異記》云：周昭王即位，二十四年甲寅歲，四月八日，江河泉池，忽然汎漲，井水溢出，山川震動。有五色光，入貫太微。遍於西方，盡作青紅色。太史蘇由奏曰：「有大聖人，生於西方，一千年外，聲教及此。」昭王即敕鐫石記之，埋於南郊天祠前，此即佛生之時也。相國呂侯乘驊騮八駿，而行求佛，因以禳之。 > According to the \*Record of Anomalies\* in the \*Book of Zhou\*: In the twenty-fourth year of King Zhao of Zhou's reign, in the year of Jiayin, on the eighth day of the fourth month, rivers, springs, and ponds suddenly overflowed, well water surged out, and mountains and rivers trembled. A five-colored light pierced through the Great Bear constellation, spreading across the western sky, which turned entirely blue and red. The Grand Astrologer Su You reported: "A great sage has been born in the West. Within a thousand years, his teachings will reach this land." King Zhao then ordered a stone inscription to be carved and buried in front of the celestial shrine in the southern suburbs. This was the time of the Buddha's birth. Prime Minister Lü Hou rode one of the eight swift horses to seek the Buddha, thereby offering prayers for protection. 周穆王五十三年，壬申歲，二月十五日，平旦，暴風忽起，損舍折木，地動天陰，西方白虹十二道。太史扈多曰：「西方聖人滅矣。」此即佛入涅槃之相也。二卷末 > In the fifty-third year of King Mu of Zhou, in the year of Renshen, on the fifteenth day of the second month, at dawn, a sudden violent wind arose, damaging houses and breaking trees. The earth trembled, the sky darkened, and twelve white rainbows appeared in the west. The Grand Historian Hu Duo said: "The sage of the West has passed into extinction." This was the sign of the Buddha's parinirvana. End of Volume Two