第六十六回 · 假充佛祖 Counterfeiting The Buddha — Journey to the West

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假充佛祖 Counterfeiting The Buddha

相xiāng見jiàn敘xù禮lǐ畢bì，行xíng者zhě道dào：「我wǒ保bǎo唐táng僧sēng西xī天tiān取qǔ經jīng，路lù上shàng有yǒu個gè小xiǎo雷léi音yīn寺sì，那nà裡lǐ有yǒu個gè黃huáng眉méi怪guài，假jiǎ充chōng佛fó祖zǔ。我wǒ師shī父fù不bú辨biàn真zhēn偽wěi，就jiù下xià拜bài，被bèi他tā拿ná了le。又yòu將jiāng金jīn鐃náo把bǎ我wǒ罩zhào住zhù，幸xìng虧kuī天tiān降jiàng星xīng辰chén救jiù出chū。是shì我wǒ打dǎ碎suì金jīn鐃náo，與yǔ他tā賭dǔ鬥dòu，又yòu將jiāng一yí個gè布bù搭dā包bāo兒er，把bǎ天tiān神shén、揭jiē諦dì、伽qié藍lán與yǔ我wǒ師shī父fù、師shī弟dì盡jìn皆jiē裝zhuāng了le進jìn去qù。相xiāng见jiàn叙xù礼lǐ毕bì，行xíng者zhě道dào：「我wǒ保bǎo唐táng僧sēng西xī天tiān取qǔ经jīng，路lù上shàng有yǒu个gè小xiǎo雷léi音yīn寺sì，那nà里lǐ有yǒu个gè黄huáng眉méi怪guài，假jiǎ充chōng佛fó祖zǔ。我wǒ师shī父fù不bú辨biàn真zhēn伪wěi，就jiù下xià拜bài，被bèi他tā拿ná了le。又yòu将jiāng金jīn铙náo把bǎ我wǒ罩zhào住zhù，幸xìng亏kuī天tiān降jiàng星xīng辰chén救jiù出chū。是shì我wǒ打dǎ碎suì金jīn铙náo，与yǔ他tā赌dǔ斗dòu，又yòu将jiāng一yí个gè布bù搭dā包bāo儿er，把bǎ天tiān神shén、揭jiē谛dì、伽qié蓝lán与yǔ我wǒ师shī父fù、师shī弟dì尽jìn皆jiē装zhuāng了le进jìn去qù。

逐句解 Line by line

相xiāng見jiàn敘xù禮lǐ畢bì，行xíng者zhě道dào：「我wǒ保bǎo唐táng僧sēng西xī天tiān取qǔ經jīng，路lù上shàng有yǒu個gè小xiǎo雷léi音yīn寺sì，那nà裡lǐ有yǒu個gè黃huáng眉méi怪guài，假jiǎ充chōng佛fó祖zǔ。相xiāng见jiàn叙xù礼lǐ毕bì，行xíng者zhě道dào：「我wǒ保bǎo唐táng僧sēng西xī天tiān取qǔ经jīng，路lù上shàng有yǒu个gè小xiǎo雷léi音yīn寺sì，那nà里lǐ有yǒu个gè黄huáng眉méi怪guài，假jiǎ充chōng佛fó祖zǔ。

When they had met and the courtesies were done, Pilgrim said, "I am escorting the Tang Monk to fetch scriptures in the Western Heaven. On the road there is a Monastery of Little Thunderclap, and in it a Yellow-Brow fiend who counterfeits the Buddha Patriarch.

相 is xiāng, mutually, in 相見. 假充 — passing himself off as — states the offence plainly, where the earlier telling described the trap and left the reader to infer it.

我wǒ師shī父fù不bú辨biàn真zhēn偽wěi，就jiù下xià拜bài，被bèi他tā拿ná了le。我wǒ师shī父fù不bú辨biàn真zhēn伪wěi，就jiù下xià拜bài，被bèi他tā拿ná了le。

My master could not tell the true from the false; he knelt at once, and was taken.

Fourteen characters for what took thirty-four when he told the god of Wudang. Monkey has learnt to be brief.

又yòu將jiāng金jīn鐃náo把bǎ我wǒ罩zhào住zhù，幸xìng虧kuī天tiān降jiàng星xīng辰chén救jiù出chū。又yòu将jiāng金jīn铙náo把bǎ我wǒ罩zhào住zhù，幸xìng亏kuī天tiān降jiàng星xīng辰chén救jiù出chū。

He clapped his golden cymbals over me besides, and it was owing to Heaven's sending down the star-gods that I got out.

降 is jiàng here, to send down, against the xiáng of subduing that the same character takes elsewhere in this chapter — Heaven sent the star-gods down, it did not subdue them.

是shì我wǒ打dǎ碎suì金jīn鐃náo，與yǔ他tā賭dǔ鬥dòu，又yòu將jiāng一yí個gè布bù搭dā包bāo兒er，把bǎ天tiān神shén、揭jiē諦dì、伽qié藍lán與yǔ我wǒ師shī父fù、師shī弟dì盡jìn皆jiē裝zhuāng了le進jìn去qù。是shì我wǒ打dǎ碎suì金jīn铙náo，与yǔ他tā赌dǔ斗dòu，又yòu将jiāng一yí个gè布bù搭dā包bāo儿er，把bǎ天tiān神shén、揭jiē谛dì、伽qié蓝lán与yǔ我wǒ师shī父fù、师shī弟dì尽jìn皆jiē装zhuāng了le进jìn去qù。

I smashed the cymbals and fought him for it, and he brought out a cloth bundle and bagged the whole lot — the heavenly gods, the guardians, the monastery-protectors, my master and my fellow-disciples.

鬥 here is the character for combat, kept distinct in this edition from the 斗 of the somersault cloud. The chapter carries both and never confuses them, which is what makes the earlier reading secure.

總評 Commentary

This is the third telling of the story and the shortest. To the god of Wudang it ran twelve segments; here it runs four, and whole episodes — the Twenty-Eight Mansions, Kang the Golden Dragon and his horn, the night escape, the return for the robe and bowl — have vanished.

What survives the compression is instructive. Monkey keeps the counterfeit, the cymbals, the bundle and the roll of the captured; he drops every part in which he himself acted. The version a stranger gets has no so he left in it.

He also states the charge differently. To Wudang he described what happened; here he opens with 假充佛祖, impersonating the Buddha — which is the offence most likely to move a Buddhist establishment, and he is standing in one.