律相感通傳 1.70

1.70

答曰：「迦葉佛時有山神，姓羅，名子明，蜀人也。舊是持戒比丘，生憎破戒者，發諸惡願：『令我死後作大惡鬼，噉破戒人。』因願受身，作此山神，多有眷屬。所主土地東西五千餘里，南北二千餘里，年噉萬人已上。此神本曾為迦葉佛兄，後為弟子。彼佛憐愍，故來教化，種種神變。然始調伏，與受五戒，隨識宿命，因不噉人。恐後心變，故佛留跡。育王於上起塔，在山頂，神便藏於石中。塔是白玉所作，其神見在。郭下寺塔，育王所立。（事見《付囑儀》。）南海循州北山興寧縣界靈龕寺，多有靈跡。此乃文殊聖者弟子為此山神，多造惡業，文殊愍之，便來教化，遂識宿命，請為留跡，我常禮事，得離諸惡，文殊為現，今者是也。貞觀三年，山神命終，生兜率天。別有一神來居此地，即舊神親家也，大造諸惡。生天舊神愍之，下請文殊為現小跡，以化後神，又從正法。故今此山大小跡現，莫不匪由焉。」（事見《付囑儀》。）

He replied, "At the time of Kāśyapa Buddha, there was a mountain god surnamed Luo and named Ziming, a man of Shu. Formerly, he had been a precept-upholding monk who harboured hatred toward those who broke the precepts. He made evil vows: 'Let me, after death, become a great evil ghost to devour precept-breakers!' Receiving rebirth according to his vow, he became this mountain god, possessing a vast retinue. The land he governed extended over five thousand li east to west and over two thousand li north to south, and he devoured upwards of ten thousand people each year. This god had formerly been the elder brother of Kāśyapa Buddha and later became his disciple. That Buddha pitied him, and so came to teach and transform him with various supernormal transformations. Only then was he subdued, received the five precepts, immediately recognised his past lives, and accordingly ceased eating humans. Fearing that his mind might change later, the Buddha left traces of his footprints. King Aśoka erected a stūpa upon them, atop the mountain peak, and the god then hid within the rock. The stūpa was made of white jade, and that god is present even now. The monastery and stūpa below the city walls were erected by King Aśoka (the account appears in the Protocols of Entrustment). At Lingkan Monastery on the border of Xingning County on North Mountain in Xun Prefecture in the South Sea, there are many miraculous traces. This was a disciple of the Holy One Mañjuśrī who became this mountain god and created much evil karma; Mañjuśrī pitied him, came to teach and transform him, and he thereupon recognized his past lives and requested that [Mañjuśrī] leave traces so that he might constantly worship and serve them and thereby be freed from all evils. Mañjuśrī manifested them for him, which are those present today. In the third year of Zhenguan, the mountain god passed away and was reborn in the Tuṣita Heaven. Another god came to dwell in this place—an in-law of the former god—who committed great evils. The former god who had been reborn in heaven pitied him and descended to request Mañjuśrī to manifest smaller traces to transform this later god, who also followed the True Dharma. Thus, none of the large and small traces manifested on this mountain today are without cause." (The account appears in the Protocols of Entrustment.)