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虛雲老和尚畫傳
A Pictorial Biography of the Venerable Master Hsu Yun

化老和尚著述 Composed by the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua

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重禮舍利報恩

丙申五十七歲。夏至金山助戒期。大定老和尚留過冬。丁酉五十八歲朝狼山禮大勢至菩薩回四月通智法師。在焦山講楞嚴經。聽眾千人命公講偏座。因生不見母。再往育王拜舍利。日三千拜。

宣化偈曰:

生未見慈親。育王禮真身。
日課三千叩。惟願報母恩。

 

Bowing again to the Sharira to repay his mother's kindness

During the summer of his fifty-seventh year, the Master went to Gold Mountain to assist with the transmission of the precepts. The Venerable Abbot Ta Ting (Great Concentration) requested that he stay for the winter as well. When the Master was fifty-eight years of age, he made a pilgrimage to Lang (Wolf) Mountain, in order to bow to Great Strength Bodhisattva. Upon his return, during the fourth lunar month, Dharma Master T'ung Chih (Penetrating Wisdom) requested that the Master aid him in explaining the Shurangama Sutra at Chiao (Parched) Mountain to an assembly of over one thousand people. Because the Master had never seen his mother, he decided to go again to Ashoka Monastery where he bowed to the sharira of the Buddha more than three thousand times a day.

It was said:
From birth, he never saw his mother, 
So at Ashoka Temple, he bowed to the True Body. 
Every day, he made three thousand prostrations, 
Only hoping to repay his mother's kindness.

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