國清百錄 3.51

3.51

仁壽元年十一月初三日，右庶子張衡宣令僧使灌頂、智璪進內齋。令旨自問：先師亡後有何靈異。對云：先師以開皇十七年十一月二十四日，結跏趺坐遷神入滅。到十八年四月十六日，眾於初夜各就繩床，方欲攝念僧名道修，見先師服本衣裳，手提竹杖從西戶入，倚望少時從東戶出。道修驚起奉拜，拜訖隱形。闔眾問修何意搔擾，修具說因緣，眾共悲歎。令旨云：大異大異。更有不？對云：到十八年十一月二日午時，有海州沐陽縣須仁鄉義全里軍人房伯奴、徐州釗縣眸陵鄉東釗里軍人衛伯生二人，於先師舊房階治地。此房門簾先卷，忽見一僧入房，手自下簾。二人疑是神異，進房尋覓了復不見。驚駭報僧，說如上事。令旨云：大異大異。更有不？對云：到其月八日海州連水縣人於丘彪在山頂鋸木，暮旦拜龕求乞平安，日日如此。即於亥時始欲就臥，忽見一僧執杖排戶而進，彪匡攘欲起，已到床前。語云：好努力，當得平安。彪應爾爾，而又致拜。拜起見出戶，遶修禪寺一匝，面向佛殿舉杖指撝，撝竟出門行二十步，隱不復見。彪從後行，委悉瞻視。旦向僧說，僧問：披服何衣？答：披鵄納。僧引入香床示生平本納，彪云：色狀正爾。令旨云：大異。更有不？對云：到十九年十一月二十六日，土人張造拜龕云：本蒙香火，願世世度脫。即聞彈指。四顧無人，重呪願審是靈，願更彈指。即復重聞。造具向陳敘此瑞。令旨云：大異。更有不？對云：到今元年三月十九日，永嘉縣僧皎生聞聲德、歿聞靈異，故詣龕所懺悔，遶龕千匝仍禮千拜。於亥時，龕外門扉豁然自開，光從龕出，遍照左右林谷洞明，樹木枝葉了了覩見。一眾不知何光，競出推尋。皎亦奔還報眾，對共悲喜頂禮。光久久乃闇，人人不復相見。令旨云：大異。弟子欲開龕墳，經論有開法不？對云：灌頂闇短，未知餘經論。伏聞法華經說：釋迦如來自以右手開多寶塔戶，八部覩見全身。令旨欲開龕墳，深會經教。門人違離既久，又覩奇特瑞相，此乃顒顒如饑如渴。若蒙開顯重拜尊靈，畢命何恨。因流淚嗚咽。令旨云：可與使人還山設齋，開竟兩師還更來，勿辭辛苦。對云爾。開皇二十一年改為仁壽元年，以晉王受皇太子。

On the third day of the eleventh month of the first year of Renshou, the Right Supervisor of the Household Zhang Heng proclaimed an order summoning the monastic envoys Guanding and Zhizao to enter for an inner feast. His Highness's decree personally inquired: 'What spiritual marvels have occurred since your late master's passing?' They answered: 'On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month of the seventeenth year of Kaihuang, our late master sat cross-legged, relocated his spirit, and entered extinction. When it came to the sixteenth day of the fourth month of the eighteenth year, during the first watch of the night, the community each went to their rope beds. Just as a monk named Daoxiu was about to collect his thoughts, he saw the late master wearing his original robes and holding a bamboo staff enter from the western door; after pausing and gazing for a brief while, he exited from the eastern door. Daoxiu arose in surprise and bowed to him; after he finished bowing, [the master] concealed his form. The entire community asked Daoxiu why he was causing a disturbance, and Xiu recounted the full circumstance; the assembly together lamented and wept.' The Prince's decree said: 'Most extraordinary, most extraordinary! Were there others?' They answered: 'On the second day of the eleventh month of the eighteenth year, at noon, there were two soldiers—Fang Boniu of Yiquan Hamlet, Xuren Village, Muyang County, Haizhou, and Wei Bosheng of Dongzhao Hamlet, Mouling Village, Zhao County, Xuzhou—who were leveling the ground at the steps of the late master's former room. The door screen of this room had previously been rolled up, when suddenly they saw a monk enter the room and personally lower the screen by hand. The two men suspected it was a divine marvel and entered the room to look for him, but he was completely gone. Astonished and alarmed, they reported it to the monks, recounting the matter as above.' The Prince's decree said: 'Most extraordinary, most extraordinary! Were there others?' They answered: 'On the eighth day of that month, Yuqiubiao, a man from Lianshui County in Haizhou, was sawing timber on the mountain peak. Every evening and morning he would bow to the niche, praying for peace and safety; he did so day after day. At the hour of hai, just as he was about to lie down, he suddenly saw a monk holding a staff push open the door and enter. Biao flurried, wanting to rise, but [the monk] was already at the front of the bed and said to him: "Exert yourself well, and you shall obtain peace and safety." Biao answered affirmatively, and bowed again. Rising from his bow, he saw him go out the door, encircle Xiuchan Monastery once, face the Buddha hall, and point his staff in instruction. Having finished pointing, he walked twenty paces out of the gate and vanished from sight. Biao had followed behind him, observing everything in detail. In the morning, he spoke to the monks, and the monks asked: "What robes was he wearing?" He answered: "He was wearing a kite-colored patched robe." The monks led him to the incense bed and showed him the master's original patched robe from his lifetime. Biao said: "The color and shape were precisely like this." The Prince's decree said: 'Most extraordinary! Were there others?' They answered: 'On the twenty-sixth day of the eleventh month of the nineteenth year, a local resident named Zhang Zhao bowed to the niche, saying: "Originally receiving your incense and fire, I vow to be delivered across lifetimes." Immediately he heard a snap of fingers. Looking in all four directions, there was no one; he repeated the prayer: "If this is truly a spiritual presence, please snap your fingers again." Immediately he heard it again. Zhao recounted this auspicious sign in full to us.' The Prince's decree said: 'Most extraordinary! Were there others?' They answered: 'On the nineteenth day of the third month of this first year, the monk Jiaosheng of Yongjia County, having heard of his reputation and virtue while alive and heard of his spiritual marvels after his death, came to the niche to repent, encircling the niche a thousand times and performing a thousand prostrations. At the hour of hai, the outer doors of the niche swung wide open of themselves, and a light emerged from the niche, shining all around the forests and valleys in brilliant illumination, so that the branches and leaves of the trees could be clearly seen. The community did not know what light it was and rushed out in competition to investigate. Jiao also ran back to inform the community, and together they wept with joy and bowed their heads in prostration. Only after a long while did the light dim, until people could no longer see each other.' The Prince's decree said: 'Most extraordinary! I, your disciple, wish to open the niche-tomb; do the sūtras and treatises have a method for opening [such tombs]?' They answered: 'Guanding is dim and limited, and does not know the other sūtras and treatises. But we have humbly heard that the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Sūtra says: Śākyamuni Tathāgata personally opened the door of Prabhūtaratna's Stūpa with his right hand, and the eight classes of beings beheld his complete body. Your Highness's wish to open the niche-tomb profoundly accords with the scriptural teachings. His disciples have been separated from him for long, and having seen these extraordinary auspicious signs, we are now gazing longingly as if hungry and thirsty. If we receive your favor to open and reveal it so that we may bow once more to his venerable spirit, what regret would we have even if we die?' Thereupon they shed tears and choked with sobs. The Prince's decree said: 'You may return to the mountain with the envoys to hold a feast; after the opening is completed, both masters should return here again, and do not shrink from toil.' They answered affirmatively. (The twenty-first year of Kaihuang was changed to the first year of Renshou, because the Prince of Jin was invested as Crown Prince.)