佛祖統紀 38.70

38.70

梁荊州居士陸法和。以元帝為魏所破。遂歸於齊。帝以為太尉賜甲第。和乞為佛寺。其徒七百人悉修禪法。一朝禮佛坐床上而終。將斂縮身止三尺。斂畢。帝更令開視。唯一空棺。甞題壁云。十年天子猶尚可（文宣在位十年）百日天子急如火（廢帝在位百日）周年天子遞代坐（孝昭在位不及一年）人懼塗削之。終不能滅。

The lay practitioner Lu Fahe of Jingzhou under the Liang, after Emperor Yuan was defeated by the Wei, surrendered to the Qi. The Emperor made him Grand Commandant and bestowed upon him a mansion of the highest grade. Fahe requested that it be made into a Buddhist monastery. His seven hundred disciples all cultivated Dhyāna methods. One morning, after paying homage to the Buddha, he sat upon a bed and died. As they were about to enshroud him, his body shrank to merely three chi. When the enshrouding was finished, the Emperor ordered it opened again for inspection, and found only an empty coffin. He had once written on a wall: 'A ten-year Son of Heaven is still acceptable (Emperor Wenxuan reigned for ten years); a hundred-day Son of Heaven is as urgent as fire (the Deposed Emperor reigned for one hundred days); one-year Sons of Heaven sit in rapid succession (Emperor Xiaozhao reigned for less than a year).' People were frightened and painted over it to scrape it away, but in the end they could not erase it.