原文 Original text
繁體 Traditional
含詞賦 With rhapsody
袈裟寶光
The Cassock's Jeweled Radiance
這袈裟，閑時折疊，遇聖才穿。这袈裟，闲时折叠，遇圣才穿。
閑時折疊，千層包裹透虹霓；闲时折叠，千层包裹透虹霓；
遇聖才穿，驚動諸天神鬼怕。遇圣才穿，惊动诸天神鬼怕。
上邊有如意珠、摩尼珠、辟塵珠、定風珠；上边有如意珠、摩尼珠、辟尘珠、定风珠；
又有那紅瑪瑙、紫珊瑚、夜明珠、舍利子。又有那红玛瑙、紫珊瑚、夜明珠、舍利子。
偷月沁白，與日爭紅。偷月沁白，与日争红。
條條仙氣盈空，朵朵祥光捧聖。条条仙气盈空，朵朵祥光捧圣。
條條仙氣盈空，照徹了天關；条条仙气盈空，照彻了天关；
朵朵祥光捧聖，影遍了世界。朵朵祥光捧圣，影遍了世界。
照山川，驚虎豹；照山川，惊虎豹；
影海島，動魚龍。影海岛，动鱼龙。
沿邊兩道銷金鎖，叩領連環白玉琮。沿边两道销金锁，叩领连环白玉琮。
詩曰：诗曰：
三寶巍巍道可尊，四生六道盡評論。三宝巍巍道可尊，四生六道尽评论。
明心解養人天法，見性能傳智慧燈。明心解养人天法，见性能传智慧灯。
護體莊嚴金世界，身心清淨玉壺冰。护体庄严金世界，身心清净玉壶冰。
自從佛製袈裟後，萬劫誰能敢斷僧？」自从佛制袈裟后，万劫谁能敢断僧？」
逐句解 Line by line
這袈裟，閑時折疊，遇聖才穿。
这袈裟，闲时折叠，遇圣才穿。
This cassock — in idle times folded away, only for a holy occasion worn.
閑時折疊，千層包裹透虹霓；
闲时折叠，千层包裹透虹霓；
Folded away in idle times, wrapped in a thousand layers, yet it shines through like a rainbow;
遇聖才穿，驚動諸天神鬼怕。
遇圣才穿，惊动诸天神鬼怕。
worn for a holy occasion, it startles all the heavens and makes the spirits and demons afraid.
上邊有如意珠、摩尼珠、辟塵珠、定風珠；
上边有如意珠、摩尼珠、辟尘珠、定风珠；
Upon it are the wish-granting pearl, the mani pearl, the dust-repelling pearl, the wind-stilling pearl;
摩尼珠 (the maṇi jewel) is the wish-fulfilling gem of Buddhist lore; the four named pearls each confer a protective power.
又有那紅瑪瑙、紫珊瑚、夜明珠、舍利子。
又有那红玛瑙、紫珊瑚、夜明珠、舍利子。
and there are red agate, purple coral, night-shining pearls, and sarira relics.
那 is demonstrative nà; 舍利子 (shèlìzǐ, śarīra) are the sacred relics of a Buddha or saint.
偷月沁白，與日爭紅。
偷月沁白，与日争红。
Stealing the moon's white glow, contending with the sun in redness.
條條仙氣盈空，朵朵祥光捧聖。
条条仙气盈空，朵朵祥光捧圣。
Strand upon strand of immortal vapor fills the air; cluster upon cluster of auspicious light upholds the holy.
條條仙氣盈空，照徹了天關；
条条仙气盈空，照彻了天关；
Strand upon strand of immortal vapor fills the air, shining clear through to the gate of heaven;
朵朵祥光捧聖，影遍了世界。
朵朵祥光捧圣，影遍了世界。
cluster upon cluster of auspicious light upholds the holy, casting its glow throughout the world.
照山川，驚虎豹；
照山川，惊虎豹；
It lights the mountains and streams, and startles the tigers and leopards;
影海島，動魚龍。
影海岛，动鱼龙。
it shadows the sea-isles, and stirs the fish and dragons.
沿邊兩道銷金鎖，叩領連環白玉琮。
沿边两道销金锁，叩领连环白玉琮。
Along its edges, two bands of gold-wrought clasps; at its collar-fastening, a linked ring of white-jade cong.
琮 (cóng) is a jade tube, an ancient ritual object, here a collar-fastening.
詩曰：
诗曰：
The poem says:
The lead-in 詩曰 introduces the closing verse that draws the moral of the whole display.
三寶巍巍道可尊，四生六道盡評論。
三宝巍巍道可尊，四生六道尽评论。
The Three Treasures, lofty and high, their Way to be revered; the Four Births and Six Ways, all fully weighed and judged.
三寶 are the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha; 四生六道 (the Four Births — womb, egg, moisture, transformation — and the Six Ways of rebirth) are the whole of sentient existence. 盡 in 盡評論 is jìn ('all, fully').
明心解養人天法，見性能傳智慧燈。
明心解养人天法，见性能传智慧灯。
Clarifying the mind, it can nurture the Law of men and gods; seeing one's nature, it can transmit the lamp of wisdom.
明心／見性 ('clarifying the mind, seeing one's nature') is the core Chan formula for awakening; 智慧燈 ('the lamp of wisdom') is the light of enlightenment passed from master to disciple.
護體莊嚴金世界，身心清淨玉壺冰。
护体庄严金世界，身心清净玉壶冰。
Guarding the body, majestic as a golden world; body and mind made pure as ice in a jade vessel.
玉壺冰 ('ice in a jade vessel') is a classic figure for flawless purity.
自從佛製袈裟後，萬劫誰能敢斷僧？」
自从佛制袈裟后，万劫谁能敢断僧？」
Ever since the Buddha ordained the cassock, through a myriad kalpas who would dare cut off the monkhood?
萬劫 ('a myriad kalpas') is a vast Buddhist span of time; 斷僧 ('to cut off the monkhood') reads 斷 as duàn. The verse closes the display by moralizing the cassock as the very emblem and guarantee of the monastic order.
總評 Commentary
The rhapsody's second movement turns from making to effect, and above all to light. Studded with named pearls and relics — wish-granting, dust-repelling, wind-stilling — the cassock is imagined as a source of cosmic radiance whose glow reaches the gate of heaven, fills the world, and stirs the very beasts of mountain and sea. The closing verse then lifts the whole ecphrasis onto the doctrinal plane: the garment becomes the emblem of the Three Treasures and the instrument of awakening, 'clarifying the mind' and 'transmitting the lamp of wisdom,' and its final line — 'who would dare cut off the monkhood?' — makes the cassock stand for the perpetuity of the Buddhist order itself. Ornament and doctrine are thus fused: the treasure's dazzle is, in the end, an argument for the dignity and permanence of the Dharma.