佛祖統紀 37.62

37.62

Chan Master [Zhi]yi lectured on the Lotus Sūtra for the Specially Advanced (Yitong) Shen Junli and others at Waguan Monastery. Later he frequently lectured on the Dà zhìdù lùn for the assembly and taught the Cìdì chánmén. Chan Master [Hui]si resided on Mount Nanyue. Ouyang Zhengze, a Daoist priest of Jiuxian Abbey, made a deceitful memorial accusing the master of working black magic (gù) against the emperor. (Han Dynasty's Jiang Chong memorialized that Crown Prince Li was practicing witchcraft and black magic. Black magic means delusion. It refers to sorcerers' heterodox paths, or burying wooden figurines as curses. Here, the Daoist priest wished to frame the master with witchcraft and black magic.) The emperor dispatched an envoy to summon him, whereupon he saw the master arriving through the air. Startled into realizing his spiritual powers, [the emperor] asked nothing at all. Since the Daoist priest's crime of false accusation warranted execution in the marketplace, the master requested that he be pardoned and made to serve the saṅgha. Thereupon an imperial decree ordered the authorities to forge fourteen iron certificates and inscribe the fourteen names upon them, requiring them to follow the master back to the mountain to labor at hulling rice. (Today commoners call them 'rice-pounding uncles'.) After a long time, [one] offered his fields to supply the monastery storehouse to redeem his aged self; hence it was named the Liutian (Retained Field) Estate. Thereupon, the iron certificates were stored and inscribed on stone as a record, entitled 'Record of the Iron Certificates Bestowed by the Emperor of the Chen Dynasty upon Great Chan Master [Hui]si of Mount Nanyue for Subduing the Daoist Priests' (for details, see the Basic Annals of Nanyue).