國清百錄 4.7

4.7

The envoy Lu Zhengli returned and memorialized: 'We opened the former master's niche tomb, but did not see relics.' He also presented one scroll of his biography, and the hundred officials all offered congratulations. An imperial decree said to the lords: 'Zhizhe was my bodhisattva precept master. Formerly he showed many spiritual anomalies, and constantly told me: "If I surely attain the Way, after attaining the Way, I will protect the state and benefit the common people, right up to nirvāṇa." Sitting in the stone grotto, his countenance remained unchanged. In the first year of Renshou, I sent Zhang Qianwei to go and look, and he was dignified as of old. Yesterday, I ordered Lu Zhengli to go again; when he personally opened the door of the niche, it was closed and empty inside, with no one there. Hearing this, his traces were ultimately seen no more; since his spiritual body has already transformed, that he attained the Way is not false, and his words about protecting and benefiting will surely not fail. Now here is one scroll of his biography; let you lords examine it together, and let the evaluation envoys of all prefectures each make a copy to take back to their regions and disseminate.'