Tripitaka Master, The Venerable Kumarajiva \u9ce9\u6469\u7f85\u4ec0\u4e09\u85cf\u6cd5\u5e2b<\/p>\n
The father of Tripitaka Master Kumarajiva (344-413 A.D.), was Kumarayana. Kumarayana was the son of a high official in India and, although he was heir to his father\u2019s position, he renounced the world instead and travelled everywhere in search of a Good Knowing Advisor. Since Kumarayana\u2019s father was a high official, he was welcomed warmly wherever he went. In his travels he went to Kucha. There the King, hearing that Kumarayana had set aside worldly glory, much admired him and met him at the border, so as to escort him into the country. He also conferred upon him the title of \u201cNational Master.\u201d<\/p>\n
The King had a little sister named Jiva who was just twenty years old. From birth she was so intelligent that she looked down on all the men in her own country. The King invited Kumarayana to a banquet, and the moment Jiva saw him she fell in love with him and wished to marry him. Although she didn\u2019t say anything, her brother, who was also quite intelligent, noticed her reaction. He decided it was meant to be, and ordered Kumarayana to marry her.<\/p>\n
Before long, she became pregnant, and a lot of strange things began to happen. She would often visit Queli (Ascarni) Great Monastery (\u96c0\u68a8\u5927\u5bfa)1<\/sup> where she would listen to the virtuous masters expound upon the Dharma. Originally, she did not understand the Indian languages, but strangely enough, when she was pregnant with Kumarajiva, one day at a banquet offered to the Sangha, she suddenly understood the Indian speakers and was able to converse with them as well. Not only that, her eloquence was unobstructed and her wisdom increased greatly. Everyone expressed their amazement. At that time, an Arhat said, \u201cThe child in that woman\u2019s womb is no ordinary child but one of great wisdom. This is like the time when Shariputra was in his mother\u2019s womb. So the child is probably just like Shariputra, the wisest of the Buddha\u2019s Sound-Hearer Disciples.\u201d When Kumarajiva was still in his mother\u2019s womb, then, he helped her become wise. Not long after that, she expressed the desire to leave the home life, but her husband would not give his consent. Two or three years later she gave birth to a second son. When she heard the Dharma Masters expound the Dharma, saying that everything in the world was bound up in suffering, emptiness, and impermanence, and was without a self, she resolved to leave home, no matter what. This is because her basic disposition was extremely fine. At this time, Kumarajiva was only seven years old.<\/p>\n Although Kumarayana had formerly wanted to leave home, after his marriage to Jiva, he gave up the idea. He was now too much in love with his beautiful wife and too fond of his money and his position. In The Sutra of Forty-two Sections it says, \u201cIt is hard to practice giving when one is One day, when Jiva was strolling outside the city, she came upon a charnal field. Seeing the dry, brittle bones scattered in great disorderly heaps, she profoundly grasped and universal truth of suffering and accordingly made a vow: \u201cYou say you won\u2019t let me leave home,\u201d she said, \u201cbut I\u2019ll die before I\u2019ll remain with you,\u201d and she began to fast. At first, Kumarayana didn\u2019t think much of her not eating. But when she hadn\u2019t taken any food, or even a drink of water, for six days, he grew concerned. On the evening of the sixth day, seeing her weakened condition and fearing that she might really starve to death, he finally relented. \u201cAll right,\u201d he said, \u201cyou may leave home. Now please eat something!\u201d Jiva replied, \u201cFirst ask a Dharma Master to cut my hair and then I will eat. Otherwise, after I eat you might go back on your word.\u201d Kumarayana had no choice but to go to Queli (Ascarni) Great Monastery and ask the Abbot to shave his wife\u2019s head. After that, she ate. From that time on, she studied the Buddhadharma with great sincerity.<\/p>\n In studying the Dharma, sincerity is essential. Without a sincere heart, no matter how long you study, you\u2019ll obtain nothing. Because she was so sincere\u2014ready to starve to death in order to leave home\u2014and because she saw cultivation as more important than life itself, she was able to reach the extreme of singlemindedness. She put absolutely everything else aside and at that time, her spiritual light blazed forth and she realized the first fruit of Arhatship.<\/p>\n Often she would take Kumarajiva with her to the Temple. He was only seven years old at the time and when he saw people bowing to the Buddha, he would do the same. When he saw people lighting incense, he would imitate them. Soon, he left home with his mother. Kumarayana was very upset. He found it as hard to let go of his son as it had been to let go of his wife. He may have wept bitter tears; it\u2019s not known for sure. However, Kumarajiva\u2019s mother was very firm. \u201cCry all you like,\u201d she said, \u201cbut we are leaving home,\u201d and off they went.<\/p>\n After Kumarajiva left home, he studied the Small Vehicle teachings and memorized the Sutras at the rate of a thousand verses of thirty-two words each, per day, or thirty-two thousand words a day. That\u2019s about thirty times as many words as there are in the Shurangama Mantra. Think it over: Kumarajiva at seven years old could memorize that many words in a single day. How does our intelligence compare with his? Every day you are given twenty-four Chinese characters to learn, but today, you don\u2019t remember yesterday\u2019s lesson. How can we possibly compare with him?<\/p>\n His mother soon had an awakening. Being the little sister of a King, after she left home she was showered with offerings. Not wishing to live in luxury and intent on cultivating the Way, she decided to take Kumarajiva with her and travel about. When Kumarajiva was nine years old, she took him to Kashmir where he studied the Small Vehicle under the High Master Bandhudatta. Kumarajiva worked extremely hard at his studies. From dawn until noon, he wrote the verses out, and from noon until the sun went down, he recited them from memory.<\/p>\n In addition to being intelligent, Kumarajiva was also not lazy. Because he was intelligent, he learned the Sutras very fast; because he was not lazy, his learning was extensive. If he had been intelligent, but lazy, he never would have learned very much. If he had been industrious, but not intelligent, he also would not have learned very much. But since he was both, he learned very quickly.<\/p>\n When he was twelve, he and his mother set out to return to Kucha. As they passed through the northern mountains of Kusana, an Arhat seeing Kumarajiva said to Jiva, \u201cYou should take good care of this little novice. If by the time he is thirty-five he has not broken the Precepts, he will be able to cause the Buddhadharma to flourish greatly and will save countless beings, just like the Fourth Patriarch Upagupta of India. If his Precepts are not held intact, this will not be possible.\u201d The Fourth Patriarch had lived in a stone cave. Every time he converted someone, he would put a slip of bamboo in his cave. Eventually, the cave was entirely filled with bamboo slips, which proves that he saved hundreds of thousands of people.<\/p>\n On their way back to Kucha, they stopped in Kashgar. There, in a temple, Kumarajiva saw a large incense burner in front of the Buddha image. It must have weighed at least a hundred pounds. But he picked it right up and put it over his head with no effort at all. Once he had done this, he thought, \u201cI\u2019m just a little child. How can I lift such a heavy thing?\u201d With that one thought, the burner suddenly became very heavy and crashed to the ground. When his mother asked him what was going on, he said, \u201cThe burner seemed light and then heavy only because of the discriminations in my mind.\u201d Thus, he awoke to the fact that everything is made from the mind alone. Before he had discriminated, he lifted the burner easily. Once he gave rise to discrimination, what had not been heavy became heavy. From this, he knew that the ten thousand dharmas arise only from the mind.<\/p>\n He remained in Kashgar studying Abhidharma texts and was introduced to the Great Vehicle and realized that, while the Small Vehicle was wonderful, the Great Vehicle was the wonderful within the wonderful. He sighed and said, \u201cIn my previous study of the Small Vehicle, I was like one who did not recognize gold and took ordinary rock as something wonderful.\u201d Although the King of Kashgar was anxious to keep him in his court, the King of Kucha sent a messenger asking him to return and so Kumarajiva and his mother once again set out for Kucha.<\/p>\n In a small country north of Kucha, there was a master of debate who loudly beat the palace drum and announced that if anyone could beat him in a debate, he would chop off his own head and present it to that person as a gift. This, too, was similar to the incident which took place between Shariputra\u2019s uncle and the Buddha. As Kumarajiva happened to be passing through, he questioned the man about two principles. This rendered the man completely speechless. Since the master of debate couldn\u2019t bear to cut off his head, he bowed to Kumarajiva as his teacher and studied with him. Kumarajiva once again set out for Kucha and was welcomed at the border by the King himself.<\/p>\n At the age of twenty, Kumarajiva received, at the palace, the full Precepts; that is, complete ordination. He studied the Sarvastivadin Vinaya in Ten Sections (\u300a\u5341\u5206\u5f8b\u300b) under Vimalaksha, the well-known Shramana from Kashmir who had travelled to Kucha and was a renowned master of the Vinaya.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Kumarajiva\u2019s mother decided to travel to India. There she was to be certified to the third fruit of Arhatship. Before leaving, she took a look at the causes and conditions and saw that her son\u2019s affinities lay in China. She told him, \u201cThe profound Vaipulya Teachings should be propagated extensively in China. You are the only one with the power to do this. However, it will be most unbeneficial for you personally. I don\u2019t know how you feel about this…\u201d<\/p>\n Kumarajiva replied, \u201cThe way of the Bodhisattva is to benefit others and forget oneself. If I can transmit the great teaching and enlighten the people, I would not even object to being boiled in a cauldron.\u201d<\/p>\n Kumarajiva remained in Kucha for two years studying the Great Vehicle Sutras. Then his uncle, the King, had a golden lion throne made for him and asked him to ascend it and speak the Dharma. But at that time Kumarajiva had something else on his mind. He wanted to convert his Small Vehicle Master, Bandhudatta. His Small Vehicle Master had a lot of disciples, and if Kumarajiva could convert him, he would convert many others as well. So, although his uncle had made him a lion throne, he still intended to leave Kucha for Kashmir where Bandhudatta lived. This greatly upset his uncle. \u201cI have been so gracious as to make you this throne,\u201d he said, \u201cand you show me no consideration whatever.\u201d<\/p>\n Curiously enough, shortly thereafter, Bandhudatta arrived at the border, seeking entrance into Kucha. When border officials informed the palace, both Kumarajiva and the King went to meet him. The King asked Bandhudatta, \u201cWhy have you come from so far?\u201d<\/p>\n Bandhudatta replied, \u201cI came first of all because I heard of the great awakening of my disciple, and secondly, because I heard, Great King, of your vast propagation of the Buddhadharma and I wished to meet you.\u201d<\/p>\n Kumarajiva was delighted to see his teacher and spoke for him The Sutra of the Questions of the Virtuous Woman (\u300a\u5fb7\u5973\u554f\u7d93\u300b), a Great Vehicle Sutra. When he had finished, his Teacher said, \u201cJust what particular advantages does the Great Vehicle have that have caused you to take it up in lieu of the Small Vehicle?\u201d<\/p>\n Kumarajiva replied, \u201cThe Great Vehicle propounds the doctrine that dharmas are empty. The Small Vehicle relies upon names and marks.\u201d<\/p>\n Bandhudatta replied, \u201cThe Great Vehicle talks about emptiness, but emptiness is just emptiness\u2014nothing at all. What\u2019s the use of studying it? If everything is empty, then why study it?\u201d<\/p>\n Kumarajiva said, \u201cIn emptiness there is existence. In True Emptiness there is Wonderful Existence. The Great Vehicle is the ultimate teaching. It is not like the Small Vehicle which restricts itself with names and terms and does not teach genuine liberation. The Small Vehicle is too rigid and stuffy.\u201d<\/p>\n Then Bandhudatta countered, \u201dI have an analogy for the emptiness of the Great Vehicle. Once there was a madman who asked a weaver to weave him a piece of fine silk. The first piece the weaver brought him was not fine enough, and the second was still too coarse. He kept sending the weaver back to his loom until, in exasperation, the weaver finally confronted him with nothing at all, just his empty fist clenched in space and said, \u2019Here it is. This is my finest work!\u2019\u201c<\/p>\n \u201c\u2019But there\u2019s nothing there,\u2019 the madman said. \u201cThe madman was delighted and paid a handsome price for the silk. The other weavers also took up this method and they all cheated the madman who paid out a lot of money for nothing at all. Your exposition of the Great Vehicle Dharma is exactly like that,\u201d said Bandhudatta, \u201cYou talk about emptiness and say that within emptiness there is existence, but no one can see it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo, no, no,\u201d said Kumarajiva, and he continued to explain many subtle Great Vehicle Doctrines to him until finally, after over a month of discussion, he won his Teacher over to the Great Vehicle, and brought him to a true understanding of the doctrine of True Emptiness and Wonderful Existence. Then what do you think happened?<\/p>\n Bandhudatta said, \u201cI want to bow to you as my Master.\u201d<\/p>\n Kumarajiva said, \u201cYou can\u2019t do that. I have already bowed to you as my Master. How can you bow to me as your Master?\u201d<\/p>\n Bandhudatta said, \u201cI am your Small Vehicle Master; you can be my Great Vehicle Master. That way, we\u2019ll both have our Masters and we\u2019ll both have our Vehicles and everyone will be satisfied. It\u2019s no big problem.\u201d<\/p>\n In this way, Kumarajiva received his own Teacher as a disciple. It\u2019s obvious from this that the ancients did not have a mark of self. They had true understanding. Otherwise, Bandhudatta would not have been able to bow to his own disciple as a Teacher. He would simply have said, \u201cI don\u2019t care how lofty your eloquence; you are my disciple and that\u2019s that.\u201d The ancients had no view of self. They took the Way as their Teacher. All that was necessary was for someone else to have more virtue than they, and they would bow to them as their Teacher. They had no obstructive thoughts of rank or position, and they were not self-centered.<\/p>\n One time, when the weather was extremely dry in Kucha, and it hadn\u2019t rained for a long time, Kumarajiva manifested great spiritual powers and set up a Dharma Altar to seek rain. He announced, \u201cWithin three days there will certainly be rain.\u201d Sure enough, before three days had passed, it rained. Everyone believed in him even more.<\/p>\n All the nations stood in awe of Kumarajiva and the Kings would kneel beneath his speaking platform to listen to him expound upon the Sutras. The King would even allow his back to be used as a step for Kumarajiva to walk on as he ascended the Dharma seat to deliver a lecture. The King did this to show how much he honored the Master and how much he esteemed the Buddhadharma.<\/p>\n In China at this time, The Emperor was Yao Xing (\u59da\u8208) and his reign period was called Yaoqin (\u59da\u79e6). Earlier, Emperor Fu Jian (\u7b26\u5805) had set up the Fuqin (\u7b26\u79e6) Dynasty. When Fu Jian was murdered by Yao Chang (\u59da\u8407), the dynasty name was changed to Yaoqin. Later, when Yao Chang died, Yao Xing took the throne.<\/p>\n In Chang\u2019an (\u9577\u5b89), Fu Jian\u2019s court astrologer, Qin Tian Jian (\u6b3d\u5929\u76e3), had seen a \u201cwisdom star\u201d shining in the direction of India and told Fu Jian, \u201cIn India, there is a person of great wisdom who shall be coming here to protect our country.\u201d<\/p>\n Fu Jian said, \u201cIt is most likely Kumarajiva. We should send out troops to escort him here.\u201c He then sent General L\u00fc Guang (\u5442\u5149) with seventy thousand mounted troops to Kucha after Kumarajiva.<\/p>\n Before L\u00fc Guang arrived in Kucha, Kumarajiva had told the King, \u201cChina is sending troops to our country, but they do not wish to take our land. They have another objective and you should listen to them and agree to their demands.\u201d But the King refused to listen and when L\u00fc Guang arrived, he sent out his troops to fight. The China\u2018s army was large and powerful, and Kucha was just a little country. The King was murdered and his troops defeated.<\/p>\n As the King had been an ardent believer in Buddhism, you may wonder why he was murdered. It was because the killing karma he had created in past lives was too heavy. It was a fixed, unavoidable retribution.<\/p>\n L\u00fc Guang captured Kumarajiva and started back. One night he camped in a gorge at the base of two mountains. Kumarajiva advised him not to camp there as it was an inauspicious site, but L\u00fc Guang said, \u201cWhat do you, a left home person, know about military matters?\u201d In the middle of the night a flood swept down the gorge and L\u00fc Guang lost several thousand men. The next day he realized that Kumarajiva was rather extraordinary and that he had spiritual powers. Before the troops had drowned he did not believe in him, but now he certainly did!<\/p>\n When L\u00fc Guang arrived in Guzang (\u59d1\u81e7), he heard that in China, Fu Jian had been murdered by Yao Chang, who had set up the Yaoqin Dynasty. Uncertain as to how he would be received in China, L\u00fc Guang decided to remain in Guzang and maintain his neutrality.<\/p>\n When L\u00fc Guang\u2019s most esteemed minister, Zhang Zi (\u5f35\u8cc7), fell ill, a Brahman healer thought to swindle L\u00fc Guang and claimed that he could cure Zhang Zi\u2019s illness. L\u00fc Guang gave him a large sum of money, but Kumarajiva knew the man was a swindler and said to L\u00fc Guang, \u201cNo matter how much money you give him, he won\u2019t be able to cure Zhang Zi\u2019s illness. I will prove it to you. Here is a five-colored thread which I shall burn into ashes. Then I will put the ashes in some water. If the ashes turn back into a five-colored thread, then Zhang Zi\u2019s illness will not be cured. If they do not, he will get well. If you don\u2019t believe me, we\u2019ll try it out. He burned the thread and put the ashes in a cup of water. As soon as he did this, the ashes turned into a five-colored thread. Seeing this, L\u00fc Guang knew that Zhang Zi could not be cured. Soon after, Zhang Zi died. L\u00fc Guang had spent a lot of money and got no results whatsoever. This was the inconceivable state of Kumarajiva. His spiritual powers were something which ordinary people could never fathom.<\/p>\n In China, when Yao Chang died, his son, Yao Xing, took the throne. A loyal supporter of the Buddhadharma, he sent men to Guzang to bring Kumarajiva to China. In Guzang, L\u00fc Guang having died, his son, L\u00fc Shao (\u5442\u7d39), had taken the throne. Shortly after, L\u00fc Zuan (\u5442\u7e82), the son of one of his father\u2019s concubines, murdered L\u00fc Shao and seized power. During the second year of L\u00fc Zuan\u2019s reign, a three-headed pig was born. Then a dragon was seen crawling out of a well on the outskirts of the eastern part of the city. It coiled up in front of the palace hall and remained there until dawn when it disappeared. Thinking this an auspicious portent, L\u00fc Zuan renamed the palace \u201cHovering Dragon.\u201d Then a black dragon was seen outside the throne-room gates. L\u00fc Zuan changed the name from \u201cNine Chamber Gates\u201d to \u201cRising Dragon Gates.\u201d<\/p>\n Kumarajiva told L\u00fc Zuan, \u201cThe appearance of these dragons is highly inauspicious. They are Yin dragons and their frequent appearance foretells calamities for the nation. I advise the cultivation of virtue to forestall these impending disasters.\u201d<\/p>\n L\u00fc Zuan would not hear of this. While playing chess with Kumarajiva, L\u00fc Zuan was about to take one of Kumarajiva\u2019s men and said, in reference to the chess move, \u201cI cut off the Hunu (\u80e1\u5974)\u2019s (barbarian\u2019s) head.\u201d<\/p>\n Startled, Kumarajiva said, \u201cYou cannot cut off the Hunu\u2019s head. The Hunu will cut off someone else\u2019s head.\u201d This was a prophecy, although L\u00fc Zuan failed to understand it as such.<\/p>\n L\u00fc Guang\u2019s little brother, L\u00fc Bao (\u5442\u4fdd), had a son named L\u00fc Chao (\u5442\u8d85), whose nickname was Hu Nu. At that time, L\u00fc Chao was plotting L\u00fc Zuan\u2019s murder. Later L\u00fc Chao did, in fact, kill L\u00fc Zuan, and set his older brother, L\u00fc Long (\u5442\u9686), on the throne. It was L\u00fc Long who was ruling the country when Yao Xing\u2019s troops arrived from China to take Kumarajiva.<\/p>\n Kumarajiva arrived in China, at Chang\u2019an, in 401 A.D. and was made a National Master. He headed a translation center with over eight hundred Sangha and lay scholars assisting him. By the time he died, he had produced over three hundred rolls of translation, including the Wonderful Dharma Lotus Flower Sutra (\u300a\u5999\u6cd5\u84ee\u83ef\u7d93\u300b).<\/p>\n We have proof that Kumarajiva\u2019s translations are extremely accurate. When he was about to die, he asked to be cremated and said, \u201cI have translated many Sutras during my lifetime and I personally do not know if they are correct. If they are, when I am cremated, my tongue will not burn. If there are mistakes, however, it will.\u201d When his body was burned, his tongue was found unburned in the ashes.<\/p>\n During the Tang Dynasty, Vinaya Master Daoxuan (\u9053\u5ba3) once asked the god Lu Xuanchang (\u9678\u7384\u66a2), \u201cWhy does everyone prefer to read Kumarajiva\u2019s translations?\u201d<\/p>\n The god replied, \u201cKumarajiva has been the translation master for the past seven Buddhas and so his translations are extremely accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n Kumarajiva was a Tripitaka Master, one who has mastered the Three Divisions of the Buddhist Canon: the Sutras, Shastras, and Vinaya. A Dharma Master takes the Dharma as his master and bestows the Dharma upon others. Some Dharma Masters chant Sutras, others maintain them in their minds and practice them with their bodies; others write them out and still others explain them for people.<\/p>\n Kumarajiva\u2019s name is Sanskrit and means \u201cYouth of Long Life.\u201d One could say, \u201cYoung Kumarajiva will certainly live to a great age.\u201d One could also say, \u201cHe was young in years, but mature in wisdom, eloquence, and virtue: he had the wisdom of an old man. 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\npoor; it is hard to study the Way when one is rich.\u201d Because of his wealth and rank, Kumarayana had become confused. Not only did he not want to leave home, he wouldn\u2019t allow his wife to leave home either.<\/p>\n
\n\u201c\u2019This silk is so fine,\u2019 said the weaver, \u2019that even I, the master weaver, cannot see it. It\u2019s so fine it\u2019s invisible.\u2019<\/p>\n