佛祖統紀 42.80

42.80

二年。吳越王鏐遣沙門清外同弟錢鏵。往四明阿育王山迎釋迦舍利塔。船泊西陵。塔夜放光浙江如晝。王躬迎至羅漢寺。廣陳供養。○四明奉化布袋和上。於岳林寺東廊坐盤石上而化葬於封山。既葬復有人見之東陽道中者。囑云。我誤持隻履來。可與持歸。歸而知師亡。眾視其穴唯隻履在焉。師初至不知所從。自稱名曰契此。蹙額皤腹。言人吉凶皆驗。常以拄杖荷布袋遊化廛市見物則乞。所得之物悉入袋中。有十六群兒譁逐之。爭掣其袋。或於人中打開袋。出鉢盂木履魚飯菜肉瓦石等物。撒下云。看看。又一一拈起云。者个是甚麼。又以紙包便穢云。者个是彌勒內院底。嘗在路上立。僧問作麼。師云。等个人來。曰來也。師於懷取一橘與之。僧擬接。復縮手云。汝不是者个人。有僧問。如何是祖師西來意。師放下布袋叉手立。僧云。莫別有在。師拈起布袋肩上行。因僧前行撫其背。僧回首。師云。與我一錢來。嘗於溷所示眾云。化緣造到不得於此大小二事。郡人蔣摩訶每與之遊。一日同浴於長汀。蔣見師背一眼撫之曰。汝是佛。師止之曰。勿說與人。師常經蔣念摩訶般若波羅蜜。故人間呼為摩訶居士云。師昔遊閩中。有陳居士者。供奉甚勤。問師年幾。曰我此布袋與虛空齊年。又問其故。曰我姓李。二月八日生。晉天禮初。莆田令王仁於閩中見之。遺一偈云。彌勒真彌勒。分身千百億。是時示時人。時人俱不識。後人有於墳塔之側得青[茲/瓦]淨瓶六環錫杖。藏之於寺。

In the second year, Liu, Prince of Wuyue, dispatched the Śramaṇa Qingwai together with his younger brother Qian Hua to Mount King Aśoka in Siming to escort the relic pagoda of Śākyamuni. The boat moored at Xiling; at night the pagoda emitted light so that the Zhejiang River was as bright as day. The Prince went in person to welcome it to Luohan Monastery and set out extensive offerings. The "Cloth Bag" Monk of Fenghua in Siming passed away while seated on a flat boulder under the eastern corridor of Yuelin Monastery, and was buried on Mount Feng. After he was buried, someone saw him again along the road in Dongyang, and the monk exhorted him, saying, "I mistakenly brought a single shoe with me; please carry it back." When the person returned, he learned that the master had died; the assembly examined his grave, and only a single shoe remained there. When the master first arrived, no one knew where he came from. He called himself Qici. He had a wrinkled forehead and a bulging belly; all his predictions of good and bad fortune proved true. He always carried a cloth bag on his staff and wandered through the marketplaces preaching and converting; whatever he saw, he would beg for it, and all he received went into his bag. A group of sixteen boys would noisily chase after him and vie to pull at his bag. At times, among people, he would open his bag and take out alms bowls, wooden clogs, fish, cooked rice, vegetables, meat, tiles, stones, and the like, scattering them down and saying, "Look, look!" Then he would pick them up one by one, saying, "What is this?" He would also wrap feces in paper, saying, "This is from Maitreya's Inner Court." Once he was standing on the road, and a monk asked him, "What are you doing?" The master said, "Waiting for someone to come." The monk said, "He has come!" The master took an orange from his bosom to give him; when the monk made to receive it, he withdrew his hand again and said, "You are not that person!" A monk asked, "What is the meaning of the Patriarch's coming from the West?" The master put down his cloth bag and stood with hands clasped. The monk said, "Is there nothing further?" The master hoisted the cloth bag over his shoulder and walked on. As a monk was walking ahead, the master patted him on the back; the monk turned his head, and the master said, "Give me one coin!" He once addressed the assembly at the latrine, saying, "What is collected from solicitations should not be used for these two matters of major and minor [defecation and urination]." Jiang Mohe, a man of the commandery, often spent time with him. One day they bathed together at Changting; Jiang saw an eye on the master's back and patted him, saying, "You are a Buddha." The master checked him, saying, "Do not tell anyone." The master frequently taught Jiang to recite the Mahāprajñāpāramitā, so the world called him Layman Mohe. Formerly, when the master traveled in Min, there was a Layman Chen who made offerings to him most diligently. He asked the master how old he was. The master replied, "This cloth bag of mine is as old as empty space." He also asked the reason, and the master said, "My surname is Li, born on the eighth day of the second month." Early in the Tianli era of the Jin, Wang Ren, Magistrate of Putian, saw him in Min, and the master left behind a gāthā: "Maitreya, the true Maitreya, / dividing his body into hundreds of thousands of koṭis; / manifesting from time to time to people of the time, / yet the people of the time do not recognize him." Later, someone beside his grave pagoda found a green-glazed pure water vessel and a six-ringed monk's staff, which were stored in the monastery.