佛祖歷代通載 13.23

13.23

（十七）　是年十一月己丑。禪師一行寢疾于華嚴寺。舊唐史云。帝一夕夢游其寺見一室繩床竹窓氣象蕭索。及旦行以疾聞。帝遣中使候問。使還奏行居處之狀。與所夢冥合。帝歎久之。有旨命京城十大德為行結壇祈福。既而行疾少間。詔陪駕幸新豐。未幾行疾革。帝親候問。遂沐浴端坐而逝。春秋四十有五。帝哭之哀甚。輟朝三日。有詔傷悼聽停龕三七日。與中外贍禮。行容貌如生。而鬢髮日長。帝親製碑書之於石。出內庫錢五十萬建塔銅人原。諡曰大惠禪師。帝嘗從容問國祚幾何有留難不。行曰。鑾輿有萬里之行。社稷終吉。帝驚問故不答。退以小金合進之曰。至萬里即開。帝一日發合視之。蓋當歸少許。及祿山亂駕幸成都至萬里橋。忽悟未幾果歸。昭宗初封吉王。而唐以昭宗而滅。故云終吉。有里媼素供行。而媼一子坐殺人將之刑。媼悲泣請救。行怜之。令弟子捕生物。得雉豕七。行日藏其一於甕中。為梵語呪之。七日北斗盡沒。朝廷震驚。太史奏將有變。請避正殿禳之。帝密以問行。對曰。此無他。蓋妖魔也。凡嗔心壞一切善。慈心降一切魔。若賜赦天下則妖不能為。帝然之。遂大赦。媼子由是得免。行日出一豕則一星現。至七日而斗復如故。其祕術多此類。著易論十二卷。大衍論二十卷。開元大衍曆五十二卷。七政長曆三卷。釋氏系錄。大衍玄圖。心機算術。括遁甲十六局。六壬連珠歌。六壬髓經。天一太一經。太一局遁甲經。各一卷。五音地里經十五卷。宰相李吉甫奉詔撰一行傳一卷。並見唐藝文志。十六年詔特進張說曆官陳玄景等。編次一行所撰大衍曆施用。三月駕幸溫湯。道由一行塔所。帝為駐蹕徘徊。令品官詣塔。告以出豫之意。賜帛五十疋。令蒔塔前松柏。其為聖眷如此。宋史官歐陽文忠曰。自太初至麟德曆。凡二十三家。與天雖近而未密。至一行則密矣。其倚數立法。固無以易也。後世雖有改作者。皆依倣而已。沙門道泓者。生黃州與侍郎張敬之厚善。能言吉凶亡不明驗。嘗為中書張說視宅。戒曰。無穿東北壬隅也。他日見說曰。宅氣索然云何。與說共視隅有三坎丈餘。泓驚曰。公富貴一世而已。諸子將不終。說懼將平之。泓曰。客土無氣。與土脈不連。譬身瘡痏。補他肉無益也。其後說諸子皆污祿山以斥死。果如其言。

(Seventeenth year) In the eleventh month of this year, on the day jichou, the Chan master Yixing lay ill at the Huayan Monastery. The Old History of the Tang states: One night the Emperor dreamed that he visited the monastery and saw a room with a rope-bed and bamboo window, of bleak appearance. At dawn, Yixing's illness was reported. The Emperor sent a palace envoy to enquire after him; when the envoy returned and reported the condition of Yixing's residence, it matched the dream exactly. The Emperor sighed over this for a long time. An imperial decree ordered the ten Great Virtues of the capital to erect an altar and pray for blessings on Yixing's behalf. Soon after, Yixing's illness improved slightly, and a decree ordered him to accompany the imperial retinue to Xinfeng. Before long, Yixing's illness became critical; the Emperor personally enquired after him. He then bathed, sat upright, and passed away at the age of forty-five. The Emperor wept for him in deep grief and suspended court for three days. A decree of mourning was issued allowing his casket to remain for three times seven days, so that those within and outside the court could pay their respects. Yixing's countenance remained as if alive, and his hair and temples grew longer day by day. The Emperor personally composed an inscription and inscribed it on stone, and issued fifty thousand coins from the inner treasury to build a stūpa at Tongren Plateau, posthumously naming him Chan Master Dahui. The Emperor had once casually asked him how long the dynastic destiny would last and whether there would be difficulties. Yixing said, "The imperial carriage will make a journey of ten thousand li; the altars of state will end in ji (fortune)." The Emperor was startled and asked the reason, but he did not answer. On retiring, he presented a small gold box, saying, "Open it only upon reaching ten thousand li." One day the Emperor opened the box and looked into it; it contained a small amount of danggui (angelica root). When An Lushan rebelled, the imperial carriage went to Chengdu, and upon arriving at the Wanli (Ten-Thousand-Li) Bridge, the Emperor suddenly understood; before long, he indeed returned (danggui). Emperor Zhaozong was initially enfeoffed as the Prince of Ji, and the Tang was extinguished under Zhaozong; hence he said "end in ji." There was an elderly village woman who had long provided for Yixing, whose only son was implicated in a homicide and was about to be executed. The old woman wept bitterly and begged for rescue. Yixing took pity on her and ordered his disciples to capture living creatures, obtaining seven pheasants and pigs. Each day Yixing concealed one in a vat and chanted over it in Sanskrit. For seven days, the Northern Dipper completely disappeared. The court was shaken and alarmed; the Grand Astrologer memorialised that a calamity was imminent and requested that the Emperor avoid the main hall to perform an apotropaic ritual. The Emperor secretly questioned Yixing, who replied, "This is nothing else; it is merely an evil demon. In general, an angry mind destroys all goodness, while a compassionate mind subdues all demons. If you grant a general amnesty to the realm, the demon will be unable to act." The Emperor agreed and thereupon issued a great amnesty; the old woman's son was thereby spared. Each day Yixing released one pig, and one star reappeared; on the seventh day, the Dipper was as it had been before. His secret arts were mostly of this kind. He authored the Yi lun in twelve fascicles, the Dayan lun in twenty fascicles, the Kaiyuan dayan li in fifty-two fascicles, the Qizheng changli in three fascicles, the Shishi xilu, Dayan xuantu, Xinji suanshu, Kuo dunjia shiliu ju, Liuren lianzhu ge, Liuren suijing, Tianyi taiyi jing, and Taiyi ju dunjia jing, each in one fascicle, and the Wuyin dili jing in fifteen fascicles. The Chief Minister Li Jifu compiled a one-fascicle biography of Yixing in obedience to an imperial decree; all these are recorded in the Tang Treatise on Arts and Literature. In the sixteenth year, a decree ordered Specially Advanced Zhang Yue, the Calendar Official Chen Xuanjing, and others to compile and implement the Dayan Calendar authored by Yixing. In the third month, the imperial retinue visited the Wentang hot springs; the path went by Yixing's stūpa. The Emperor halted his carriage and lingered there, ordering ranked officials to go to the stūpa to announce the intent of his tour, and bestowed fifty bolts of silk, ordering that pines and cypresses be planted in front of the stūpa. Such was the sacred favor shown to him. The Song historian Ouyang Xiu (Wenzhong) said: "From the Taichu to the Linde calendars, there were twenty-three schools in all; though they were close to heaven, they were not yet precise. With Yixing, it became precise. The way he relied on numbers to establish methods was truly irreplaceable. Even though later generations made modifications, they merely followed his model." There was a monk named Daohong, born in Huangzhou, who was on intimate terms with Vice Minister Zhang Jingzhi; he could foretell good and bad fortune, and none failed to be verified. He once inspected the residence of Secretariat Director Zhang Yue and warned him, "Do not dig into the ren corner in the northeast." On another day, seeing Yue, he said, "The aura of your residence is desolate; why is this?" Together with Yue he inspected the corner, and found three pits over a zhang deep. Hong said in alarm, "Your wealth and honour will last for one lifetime only; your sons will not meet a good end." Yue was frightened and intended to fill them level. Hong said, "Alien soil has no qi and does not connect with the veins of the earth. Just as with sores and wounds on the body, patching them with another's flesh brings no benefit." Afterwards, Yue's sons were all implicated with An Lushan and banished to their deaths, just as he had predicted.