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微博【历史】梁皇宝忏的故事 The Story of Emperor Liang Repentance（中英文字幕 English subtitle）-- 美佛寺性仁法师讲佛教故事 Ven. Xingren - YouTube
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2022.05.21 宣讲於洛杉矶美佛寺
《梁皇宝忏》的缘起，要追溯到梁朝的梁武帝。大家知道，梁武帝是一位极力护持佛教的皇帝，在中国的佛教历史上，可以说是一位佛教的大护法。他在位的时候，建寺斋僧，大力地弘扬佛法，使得佛教得到了前所未有的发展。唐朝的诗人杜牧曾经在他的诗句里面特别提到：『南朝四百八十寺，多少楼台烟雨中』。从这个诗句当中，我们可以看出，南朝寺庙之多，佛法之兴盛。《梁皇宝忏》就是这个时代杰出的伟大着作。根据记载：梁武帝的皇后郗氏，在她往生的数月时间里面，有一天，梁武帝正要就寝，他这个时候还没有睡着，想要睡觉，但是他听到殿堂上有骚乱的声音，於是就去看了一下。这不看而已，一看吓了他一大跳，竟然发现是一条大蟒蛇，并且这条大蟒蛇眼睛睁得大大地看着他。这个时候梁武帝非常地吃惊，不知如何是好，壮着胆对那条大蟒蛇说：『朕的宫殿严警，不是你们蛇类所生之地，看来你必定是妖孽，过来想害朕。』奇怪的是，当他说完话，这条蟒蛇也开始说话了。这条蟒蛇对梁武帝说：『我是你的皇后郗氏。因为生前性情惨毒，心狠手辣，喜欢争宠，常常怀有瞋恨心、嫉妒心，害人害己，所以死后堕落到畜生道，现在做了这条大蟒蛇。我现在没有饮食可吃，没有洞穴可居，而且我身上的每一片鳞甲，都有许多的虫在咬我，让我痛苦万分。由於深感圣上平日对臣妾的那种厚爱，所以才敢显现如此丑陋的形貌与您相见，希望能够祈求一些功德，让我能够脱离畜生道，脱离这条蟒蛇之身。』第二天，梁武帝就将这个情形告诉当时最有修行的志公禅师。志公禅师对梁武帝说：『必须要礼佛求忏悔，才能洗涤罪业。』於是梁武帝就请志公禅师，搜寻三藏十二部一切经典，摘录诸佛的名号，并且依照佛经来撰写忏悔文，总共写成十卷，就是现在我们大家礼拜的《梁皇宝忏》。写完之后呢，梁武帝就依照忏本，礼请当时的高僧大德，专门为皇后郗氏礼拜求忏悔。忏悔圆满的那一天，他突然间闻到异香遍满室内。他的房间香气四溢，久久不散。於是好奇，突然间抬起头，看见有一个人，这个人仪容端丽，长得非常地庄严，对他说：『我是蟒蛇的后身。因为承蒙圣上为我做功德，所以现在已经生到忉利天。现在特来致谢。』说完就不见了。这个是《梁皇宝忏》的发起因缘。
The origin of "Emperor Liang Repentance" can be traced back to Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty. We all know that he was an emperor who strongly supported Buddhism. In the history of Chinese Buddhism, he can be regarded as a great supporter of Buddhism. During his reign, he built temples, offered food to monastics, and vigorously promoted Buddhism, which made Buddhism develop unprecedentedly. Du Mu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, once particularly mentioned in his poem: "There were 480 temples in the Southern (Liang) Dynasty and so many towers in the misty rain". From this verse, we can see the large number of temples in the Southern Dynasty and the prosperity of Buddhism. "Emperor Liang Repentance" was a great and outstanding work of this era. According to records, Emperor Wu's Empress was Xi. A few months after her death, one day, when Emperor Wu was about to go to bed, he wasn't asleep yet at that time but wanted to sleep, he heard the sound of commotion in the hall, so he went to take a look. It was fine before looking at it, but when he saw what he saw, he was shocked. He found out that it was a big python, and the big python looked at him with its wide eyes. At that time, Emperor Wu was very shocked and didn't know what to do, so he plucked up his courage and said to the big python, "My palace is strictly guarded and not where your snakes live. It seems that you must be a demon who comes to harm me." Strangely, when he finished talking, the python also began to talk. The python said to Emperor Wu, "I was your empress Xi. Because of my cruel temperament and mind, and that I fought for favor and always harbored hatred and jealousy, which hurt others and myself, so after death, I fell into the animal realm and became this big python. Now I have no food to eat, no caves to live in, and under every scale on my body, there are many insects biting me, making me miserable. Because I deeply feel your love to me, I dare to show such an ugly appearance to meet you. I hope you can do some good deeds for me, so that I can leave the animal realm and this python body." The next day, Emperor Wu told this situation to Zen Master Zhi, who was the most well cultivated at that time. Zen Master Zhi said to Emperor Wu, "One must worship the Buddha and repent to wash away sin karma." So, Emperor Wu asked Zen Master Zhi to search all Twelve Divisions of the Tripitaka, extract all Buddhas' names, and write a repentance according to the Buddhist scriptures, in a total of ten volumes, which is the "Emperor Liang Repentance" that we perform today. After it was finished, Emperor Wu followed the repentance and respectfully invited the eminent monastics of that time to perform repentance particularly for Empress Xi. On the day when the repentance was complete, he suddenly smelled an unusual fragrance all over the room. The fragrance filled his room and lingered for a long time. So, he was curious and looked up, suddenly he saw a person, who was beautiful and very solemn and said to him, "I am the incarnation of the python. Because of the good deeds Your Majesty did for me, I am now in the Trayastrimsa Heaven. Now I am here just to thank you." Then the person disappeared right after talking. This is the origin of "Emperor Liang Repentance".
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