人死后趋入中阴，会见到各种文武百尊，认出就能解脱！
别把“文武百尊”当泥菩萨
Do not regard the “Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities” as mere clay idols
每个人在死后趋入中阴界时，会见到各种文武圣尊。
In the bardo state after death, everyone will experience the vision of various peaceful and wrathful deities.
如果你平时对他们有所了解，就知道这是五部佛的显现。
If in life you had some understanding of them, you will recognize them as the display of the Five Buddha Families.*
我们生前若依靠偶尔的因缘，认识了中阴法门，对死时获得解脱非常有帮助。
Becoming acquainted, even by chance, with the bardo teachings while we are alive will help us attain liberation when we die.
藏地有一个家喻户晓的故事：
This is illustrated by a story well known in Tibet:
从前，藏地有个非常富裕的人，他家附近住着一位老太太，他们关系很不错。Once upon a time, there lived in Tibet an old lady who got along well with a wealthy man’s family in her neighborhood.
后来富人过世了，他妻子特别伤心，便派人把消息告诉老太太。老太太为了安慰富人的妻子，就到她家去帮忙料理后事，做一些施食等。
When the wealthy man died, his grief-stricken wife sent a messenger to inform the old lady, who then went over to console the widow and help out with smoke offerings and other chores.
当时，亡者家里请了许多喇嘛念四十九天的《闻解脱》，还在佛堂里挂了文武百尊的唐卡。
At that time, many lamas were invited to come and perform the forty-nine-day recitation of Liberation through Hearing.† Thangkas depicting the Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities were hung in the shrine room.
老太太这辈子因为从没有见过这些画像，就以非常稀奇的眼神一直看着。
The old lady had never seen anything like that, and observed the drawings with immense curiosity.
她问在场的一个喇嘛：“这上面画的是什么？”
She asked one of the lamas, “What are these pictures about?”
喇嘛对她说：“是每个人临终时会显现出来的本尊。”
The lama told her, “These are the deities that will appear to everyone at the time of death.”
老太太心中充满了怀疑，说：“真的吗？奇怪啊，人死时怎么会有这些东西显现出来？”
Utterly wonder-struck, she responded, “Really? Isn’t it incredible! How do these things manifest when a person dies?”
她不太承认这种现象，但也起了一些信心，最后半信半疑回了家。
The old lady was suspicious of the answer she got; nonetheless, it did arouse some faith in her. Later, she went home, her mind half-believing and half-dubious.
三年后，老太太离开了人间，当时她的子女非常伤心，也请了许多喇嘛来念四十九天的经。
Three years later, the old lady passed away, and her bereaved children asked lamas to recite the scriptures for forty-nine days.
念完之后，因为要把灵牌交给一位很有名的上师，于是老太太的儿子前往拉萨，准备把灵牌交给噶玛巴。
As Tibetan tradition also calls for the surviving children to entrust their parent’s spirit tablet to a high lama following the completion of the scriptural readings, the old lady’s son set off to Lhasa to seek the Karmapa’s blessing.
到了噶玛巴那里，由于参见的人太多，前两天都没有轮到他，最后到了第三天才见到。当时，噶玛巴坐在花园里的椅子上。
When he arrived at the Karmapa’s monastery, many visitors were there, and he had to wait two days for his turn. Finally, on the third day he met the Karmapa, who was sitting on a chair in a garden.
老太太的儿子先将供养的财物送上去，再将母亲的灵牌交给他，并祈求道：“我母亲已去世，请您务必要引领她得到解脱，请您一定答应我！”
The old lady’s son first made offerings to the Karmapa and then presented his mother’s spirit tablet to him, pleading, “My mother has died. Please guide her to liberation. Please grant me my wishes!”
噶玛巴摇摇头：“这个我不能答应。众生随自己的业力而转，我没有这么大能力。”
The Karmapa shook his head, “I can’t promise you. Sentient beings must revolve according to their own karmic forces; it’s not within my power to exert any influence.”
儿子说：“那么请您告诉我，我母亲现在投生到哪里了？”
The son said, “Please then, tell me where my mother has been reborn.”
噶玛巴说：“我怎么知道？我又没有神通，什么也看不到。”
The Karmapa replied, “How can I tell? I possess no clairvoyance and can’t see anything supernaturally.”
儿子说：“不行，不行！您一定要告诉我，我母亲到底投生到什么地方去了？请您一定要引领她、加持她，让她能解脱到佛的净土。”
The son became desperate and pleaded, “Please do not say such. Please! You must tell me where my mother has been reborn! Please guide her and bless her so that she will be liberated in Buddha’s Pure Land.”
噶玛巴回答：“我没有这样的能力，也没有这样的神通。”
Again the Karmapa replied, “I have neither this kind of ability nor this kind of supernatural power.”
儿子坚持道：“您一定有！您一定具有这样的能力和神通！”然后抱住噶玛巴的脚，哭着恳求：“您一定要答应我！不答应的话，我就不放开！”
Insisting, the son said, “You are absolutely endowed with such ability and power! You definitely are!” He then reached out to grab the Karmapa’s legs and implored tearfully, “Grant me my wishes! If not, I won’t let go of your legs!”
最后噶玛巴说：“唉，你母亲已经往生净土好几个礼拜了。”
At length, Karmapa sighed, “Oh well, your mother was reborn in a Pure Land a few weeks ago.”
儿子听后不敢相信：“您在说谎吧，我母亲一生不懂修行，也没有持咒念佛，她怎么可能解脱？都是因为我抱着您的脚不放，您才这样讲的，对不对？”
The son could hardly believe what he had heard, “You are making this up, aren’t you? My mother never knew any practice nor had she recited mantras or the Buddha’s names. How could she have attained liberation? You only said that because I wouldn’t let go of your legs. Right?”
噶玛巴说：“不是。你们那里三年前不是有人过世吗？你母亲去安慰他们时，在佛堂里刚好看到文武百尊的法相。
“Not really,” Karmapa said. “Didn’t one of your neighbors die three years ago? When your mother went over to console his family, she happened to see the drawings of the Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities.
当时有一位出家人告诉她这是人死时会显现的本尊。所以，你母亲死后看到这些本尊，马上认出来而当下解脱了。
At that time one of the lamas told her that they were the deities that manifest when people die. As it turned out, your mother saw these deities after she died; she recognized them immediately and thus gained liberation on the spot.
你不信的话，回去问问那位喇嘛当时的情形就一清二楚了。”
If you don’t believe me, go back home and ask that lama about details. You’ll see what I’m talking about.”
回到家后，儿子马上找到那位喇嘛问原委。
After returning home, the son soon tracked down the lama and asked him what had happened.
喇嘛道：“哦，没错。当时你母亲什么都不懂，看到中阴百尊时，问我这是什么？我就告诉她，这些都是我们中阴时会显现的所有本尊。”
The lama replied, “Yes, indeed. At that time your mother was totally ignorant. When she saw the thangkas of the Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities, she asked me what they were. I told her that these are all the deities that will appear to people in the bardo state.”
儿子听完之后，当下对文武百尊生起了强烈的信心。
Hearing the explanation, the son immediately aroused strong faith in the Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities.
乔美仁波切也说过：“即使你从未得过灌顶，也从未得任何密法的传承，但如果与文武百尊的画像等结上善缘，经常看到、听到，或者去了解，也必将获得成就。”
Chagme Rinpoche also taught, “If you make some connection with the Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities — by seeing their images, hearing about them, or studying on them — you will be ensured of accomplishment in the future, even if you have never received any empowerment or tantric lineage transmission.”
其实，不要说跟一百位本尊都结上善缘，就算只与一位本尊结缘，时时观想他的形象，具缘者也很容易解脱。
As a matter of fact, even if you don’t make good connections with all the hundred deities, merely making connection with one deity and recalling that deity alone will bring about liberation just as swiftly and effortlessly.
往昔，藏地有一个牧羊人，他经常赶着羊群到山上放羊，到了中午，就带着口粮到附近一所寺院吃中饭。
Once there was a shepherd in Tibet who used to lead his flock of sheep to the mountainside to graze. At noontime he usually brought his food to a nearby monastery and ate lunch there.
他每次吃饭的地方，是在寺院的一块墙壁下面。
His favorite lunch spot was at the foot of a wall of the monastery.
墙上有一幅壁画，画的是文武百尊中的一位忿怒本尊，形象是人的身体、鹿的头。
On the wall there was a mural portraying one of the Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities, which had the body of a human and the head of a deer.
但牧羊人并不知道他是谁、代表了什么，只是每天来画像下吃饭时，分出一半口粮供养这位本尊，并说：“好朋友，这份是你的，一起吃吧！”日复一日，天天如此。
The shepherd knew nothing about this deity’s identity or significance, but he had a habit of taking out half of his lunch every day to offer to the deity, saying, “My good friend, this portion is yours; let’s have lunch together!” Day after day, he did the same thing.
后来，牧羊人死了，在中阴境界里，当这位本尊在他面前显现时，他立即认了出来，习惯地说道：“好朋友，一起吃饭吧！”就这样，他成就了。
Later, the shepherd died and arrived at the bardo state. As soon as this deity depicted on the wall appeared to him, he recognized the display, and out of sheer habit, said, “My good friend, let’s have lunch together!” And he attained accomplishment, just like that.
还有一个老婆婆，常常路过一座寺院，并能听到僧人念经的声音，
Again, there was an old granny who used to walk past a monastery and heard the scripture recitations by the monks there.
她经常听到这么一段内容：“……本尊有着红啄木鸟的头、人的身体，手里持着弓和箭，放着光芒……我在这位本尊面前恭敬顶礼、祈祷……”
She happened to hear the following paragraph quite often: “This deity, having the head of a red woodpecker and the body of a human, holds a bow and arrow in his hands and radiates light beams...To this deity I pay homage respectfully. I pray that... ”
这段文字时不时地在她脑海中浮现，她非常纳闷：“怎么会是这样呢？人的身体、红啄木鸟的头，手持弓箭，还放着光……”
This passage kept on surfacing in the old granny’s mind and she was quite perplexed, “How could this be—a deity with a human body, a red woodpecker head, holding a bow and arrow, and radiating light?”
因为总是听到这些经文，而且很好奇，所以不论白天晚上，她一次一次地思索着，很想见见这位本尊。
Again and again she heard the readings, again and again she pondered day and night with growing curiosity, to the extent that she even looked forward to meeting this deity face to face.
后来她死了，就在中阴自现界中，那位本尊现前了——人的身体、红啄木鸟的头，手持弓箭，放着光芒。
Later this old granny died, and in the bardo of self-manifestation this shining deity with a human body, a red woodpecker head, and a bow and arrow in the hands indeed appeared.
她一下子就认了出来，当下获得解脱。
As she had no problem recognizing this deity, she was liberated right away.
因此，我们平时若看到文武百尊的像，应该把这些记得清清楚楚，知道自己死后他们会显现出来。
Therefore, whenever we see pictures of the Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities, we should clearly identify their forms and implements, understanding that they will appear to us when we die.
当然，每个人的根基不同，有些人死后，文武百尊会原原本本现前；
Of course, we all differ in faculties. To some, all the Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities will appear from beginning to end.
有些人则不一定如此，本尊也许会现为动物的形象。
To others, that will not be the case, and the deities may look just like plain animals.
此时你不要生害心，也不要将其看作动物，否则，他们马上就变成恐怖的地狱狱卒——这也是自心的一种幻化。
If this happens to you, do not arouse the intention to harm them, nor should you regard them as true animals. Otherwise, they will morph into the henchmen of the hell realms, which, incidentally, is also the illusory display of the mind.
文武百尊里的每一尊，其实都是相应于我们的分别念而显现的。
Be aware that each of the Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities only appears in correspondence to our mind.
这些画像有很多甚深的密意，不是像有些人想的那样：把贪嗔痴显现在唐卡上。佛教并没有愚痴到这种程度。
All such drawings are, in fact, imbued with profound hidden meanings, and are not entirely the depiction of greed, hatred, and stupidity, as someone might imagine them to be.
对于这些本尊，懂的人见了会生信心，但如果被不了解密法的人看到了，可能会生邪见：“怎么佛教里会有这么多动物头像的圣尊？”
Again, it is only through faith that one will be liberated through seeing these images. People uninitiated in the esoteric teachings may have the wrong view, “How on earth can there be so many deities with animal heads in Buddhism?”
其实他们不知道，每个人在死后趋入中阴界时，都会见到这些圣尊。
In fact, they simply do not know that everyone will experience the visions of these deities in the bardo state after death.
如果你平时对此有所了解，那时候，就知道这是五部佛的显现。
If you have gained some understanding of them while you are alive, when you die you’ll realize them as the displays of the Five Buddha Families.
在你生起这种清净意念的一刹那间，所有贪嗔痴当下消失，获得成就也易如反掌。
The instant such a pure view arises in your mind, all your greed, hatred, and ignorance will vanish, and you will attain accomplishment effortlessly.
* Five Buddha Families: a Buddhist system for understanding five aspects of enlightenment.
† Short for the Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State. Tibetan name: the Bardo Thodol. Also commonly known by its Western title, The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
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