佛祖統紀 9.37

9.37

禪師行簡。親承智者剃度。稟受禪法常坐不臥。智者在玉泉。令往澧州教化。耕牛回至中路。忽逢群盜。斬師之首奪牛而去。師之屍形即從地起。以手捧頭安項上。健步如飛來追賊黨。賊皆驚異遂還其牛。誓終身為奴以求謝過。今莊中佃奴。有姓向者。是其後。

Dhyāna Master Xingjian was personally tonsured by the Master of Wisdom. Receiving the meditation teachings, he constantly sat and never lay down. While the Master of Wisdom was at Yuquan, he sent him to Lizhou to convert and transform beings. On his return journey with ploughing oxen, he suddenly encountered a band of brigands, who severed the master’s head, seized the oxen, and fled. The master's corpse then rose up from the ground, grasped his head in his hands, placed it upon his neck, and pursued the band of robbers with flying strides. The robbers were all astonished and terrified, whereupon they returned his oxen, vowing to become his slaves for life to beg forgiveness for their transgression. Among the tenant slaves on the monastic estate today, those surnamed Xiang are their descendants.