歷代三寶紀 12.99

12.99

右一部二卷。檢群錄無目。而經首題云。菩提登在外國譯。似近代出妄注。今諸藏內並寫流傳。而廣州有一僧行塔懺法。以皮作二枚帖子。一書善字一書惡字。令人擲之。得善者好。得惡者不好。又行自撲法以為滅罪。而男女合雜。青州亦有一居士。同行此法。開皇十三年。有人告廣州官司云。其是妖。官司推問。其人引證云。塔懺法依占察經。自撲法依諸經中五體投地如太山崩。廣州司馬郭誼來京向岐州具狀奏聞。勅不信占察經道理。令內史侍郎李元操共郭誼就寶昌寺問諸大德法經等。報云。占察經目錄無名及譯處。塔懺法與眾經復異。不可依行。勅云。諸如此者不須流行。

The above one work is in two fascicles. Checking the various catalogues, there is no entry for it, but the heading at the beginning of the scripture states that it was translated abroad by Putideng [Bodhidīpa?]; it seems to be an erroneous attribution produced in recent times. At present, it is copied and circulated in all the canons. In Guangzhou, there was a monk who practised a stupa-repentance ritual, using leather to make two chits, one with the character 'good' written on it and the other with 'evil'. He had people cast them: those who got 'good' were auspicious, and those who got 'evil' were inauspicious. He also practised a ritual of throwing oneself to the ground to eradicate sins, and men and women mingled together. In Qingzhou there was also an upāsaka who practised this same method. In the thirteenth year of Kaihuang, someone reported to the Guangzhou authorities that it was sorcery. The authorities interrogated them, and the person cited evidence, saying: 'The stupa-repentance method is based on the Divination Scripture, and the self-prostrating method is based on the passages in various scriptures where the five limbs are cast to the ground like the collapse of Mount Tai.' Guo Yi, the Marshall of Guangzhou, came to the capital and went to Qizhou to submit a detailed memorial reporting this. An imperial decree stated that the principles of the Divination Scripture were not to be trusted, and ordered Li Yuancao, Vice Minister of the Chancellery, together with Guo Yi, to go to Baochang Temple and inquire of venerable ones such as Fajing. They reported back: 'The Divination Scripture has no title or translation place in the catalogues, and the stupa-repentance method is moreover at variance with the scriptures; it cannot be relied upon and practised.' The imperial decree said: 'Things of this sort must not be circulated.'