佛祖統紀 37.39

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三年。侯景至建康陷臺城。入見上於太極殿。以甲士五百自衛。帶劍上殿拜訖。上神色自若。曰卿在戎日久無乃為勞。使引就三公榻。景惶懼不能對。出謂左右曰。吾踞鞍臨敵矢石交下未甞怖畏。今見蕭公使人畏慴無已（慴質涉反惧也）景既自稱丞相。帝憂憤寢疾。齋戒不衰。口苦索蜜未至。舉手曰荷荷。遂崩。帝日角龍顏。舌文八字。項有浮光。日中無景。右手成文曰武。晚奉佛道日止一食。唯豆羹糲飯（郎葛反脫栗飯）布衣皂帳一冠三載。五十便絕房室。不飲酒聽樂。製涅槃大品般若淨名三慧諸經義記　數百卷○江陵居士陸法和。隱居奉佛。及侯景遣將任約擊湘東王於江陵。法和與弟子八百人。役神祠陰兵擊敗之。復於江夏聚兵欲伐侯景。王慮其為亂止之。和曰。貧道求佛者。尚不希釋梵坐處。況人王位乎。但以空王佛所有香火緣。今知王宿報欲救之耳。既已見疑。當是定業不可移也。元帝既即位（即湘東王也）以為郢州刺史。帝為魏所執。和與弟子俱入於齊（梁書）。

In the third year, Hou Jing reached Jiankang and breached the palace city (Taicheng). He entered to have an audience with His Majesty in the Taiji Hall, guarded by five hundred armored soldiers. Wearing his sword, he ascended the hall and bowed. His Majesty's expression remained calm and collected; he said: 'You have been in the military for so long; must it not have been tiresome?' He had him led to sit upon the seat of the Three Excellencies. Jing was terrified and could not respond. When he came out, he said to his attendants: 'When I sit in the saddle facing the enemy with arrows and stones raining down, I have never felt fear. Today, seeing Duke Xiao has made me endlessly terrified.' (慴 [shè], pronounced zhi-she reversed, means fear.) After Jing claimed the title of Chancellor for himself, the Emperor took ill from grief and indignation. His fasting and precepts did not slacken. With a bitter taste in his mouth, he asked for honey, but before it arrived, he raised his hand and cried out: 'Hehe!' and then passed away. The Emperor had a prominent forehead and a dragon-like visage, an eight-character pattern on his tongue, a floating aura behind his neck, cast no shadow at midday, and the palm of his right hand formed the character 'wu' (martial). In his later years, he devoted himself to the Buddhist Way, taking only one meal a day, eating only bean broth and coarse unhusked rice (糲 [lì], pronounced lang-ge reversed, unhusked rice), wearing plain cloth and black gauze curtains, wearing one cap for three years, completely giving up sexual relations from the age of fifty, and drinking no wine nor listening to music. He authored several hundred volumes of doctrinal commentaries on various sūtras, including the Nirvāṇa, the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā, the Vimalakīrtinirdeśa, and the Three Wisdoms. Upāsaka Lu Fahe of Jiangling lived in seclusion and worshipped the Buddha. When Hou Jing sent his general Ren Yue to attack the Prince of Xiangdong at Jiangling, Fahe and eight hundred of his disciples mobilized the spirit soldiers of local shrines and defeated him. He gathered troops again in Jiangxia, wishing to attack Hou Jing, but the Prince, fearing he would cause unrest, stopped him. Fahe said: 'This poor monk seeks Buddhahood; I do not even yearn for the thrones of Śakra or Brahmā, so why would I covet the position of a human king? It is only out of the karma of offering incense and lamps to the Buddha King of Emptiness that, knowing Your Highness's past retribution, I wished to save you. Since I have already been suspected, this must be fixed karma that cannot be altered.' When Emperor Yuan ascended the throne (he was the Prince of Xiangdong), he appointed Fahe as Regional Inspector of Yingzhou. When the Emperor was captured by the Wei, Fahe and his disciples all went to Northern Qi (Book of Liang).