佛祖統紀 9.32

9.32

Dhyāna Master Daoyue was from the Zhang clan of Zhaoqiu. At the age of twelve, he went to Yuquan to rely on the Master of Wisdom (Zhiyi) and renounce the household life. He recited the Great Prajñā[-pāramitā Sūtra] and the Lotus Sūtra as his daily regular devotion. At that time, when the monastery was first founded, there were no bells or chimes; the master obtained a strange stone at the springhead and hung it up. Whenever he finished reciting a scroll of scripture, he struck it, and the resonant timbre was pure and piercing, solemnizing all who heard it. Beings of the dark unseen realms repeatedly had auspicious responses. Once he suffered from dropsy, his belly swollen tight like a drum; he simply recollected prajñā and sought a superior response. One night, the abdominal fluid gushed out and flowed away, and the great swelling vanished. At the end of the Sui, the fierce rebel Zhu Can led his gang into the mountains. The master sat upright and unmoving, saying: 'I am a śramaṇa. To this floating, illusory bodily form, you may apply your bare blades as you please.' Marveling at him, the bandits dared not violate him. The master clothed his body in hemp and ate only one meal a day. He constantly divided half of it to nourish birds and beasts; sometimes they hovered and flocked upon his room, sometimes they came into his palm at his beckoning. Permeated by kindness and compassion, he was free of clinging and without fear. Though his garments were tattered and ruined, they were utterly free of fleas and lice; he often begged lice from his neighbors to nurture them, urging them not to kill. He dwelt in the mountains for fifty years, his conduct constant and unvarying. Nearing the end, he bade farewell to others beforehand, then sat upright with palms joined and passed away. Later, someone saw a monk kneeling and raising an alms bowl above Qingxi, who called himself Master Prajñā; this was because the master constantly recited this scripture, and people had called him by that name.