佛祖歷代通載 6.96

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（十九）　天竺佛圖澄至洛。自言百餘歲。常服氣自養。能積日不食。善誦呪役使鬼神。腹旁有孔以綿塞之。夜讀書則拔綿出光照室。又每臨溪從孔中出腸胃洗濯還納腹中。能聽鈴音言吉凶。莫不奇驗。會洛陽寇亂潛伏草野以觀時變。時石勒屯葛陂多殘殺。澄杖錫謁勒。勒命試以道術。澄取滿鉢水呪之。俄青蓮花生鉢中。光色耀目。勒由此神敬。延之軍中。未幾劉曜求戰以決雌雄。左右以為未可。勒以訪澄。澄曰。相輪鈴音云。秀支替戾岡僕谷劬禿當。此羯語也。秀支軍也。替戾岡出也。僕谷劉曜胡位也。劬禿當捉也。言軍出捉得劉曜。又令童子潔齋三日。取麻油合臙脂。躬自塗於掌中。舉手示童子。燦然有輝。童子驚曰。有軍馬。一人白皙以朱絲縛肘。澄曰。此即曜也。勒遂出戰。果生擒劉曜。勒稱趙王行皇帝事。敬澄彌篤。每舉事必咨而後行。勒殂。弟季龍襲其位。徙都鄴城。尤傾心事澄。下令衣以綾錦乘雕輦。朝會引見。常侍御史悉助舉輿升殿。太子諸公扶翼而前。主者唱大和尚。坐者皆起。勅司空季農朝夕問候。時支道林聞之曰。澄公其以季龍為鷗鳥耶。及晉軍侵淮泗。季龍怒曰。吾奉佛供僧返更致寇。佛無神矣。澄入見曰。陛下前身為商人。經罽賓寺設大會。會有六應真。吾其一也。有聖者曰。此檀越報盡為雞乃王晉地。今陛下為天子。豈非奉佛供僧而致耶。疆場侵噬有國之常。何為怨謗三寶興毒念乎。季龍悔謝。因問曰。佛法不殺。朕為天下掌生殺。恐違佛戒。澄曰。帝王事佛在恭儉慈忍。顯讚法道不為暴虐不害無辜。民有為惡化之不悛者。其可不罰乎。但殺不可濫。刑不可不恤耳。尚書張離家富事佛。而所為不法。澄曰。事佛在清淨無欲。君雖崇飾寺塔。而貪冒不已無益也。及將去世詣辭季龍。驚曰。大和尚遽棄我。國有難乎。澄曰。出生入死道之常也。修短分定無由增損。但道貴行全德貴不怠。苟德行無玷雖死如生。咸無焉千歲尚何益哉。然有可恨者。國家存心佛理建寺度僧。當蒙祉福而布政猛虐賞罰交濫。特違聖教致國祚不延也。季龍號慟嗚咽。澄安坐而逝。後有沙門自雍州來。見澄入關以聞季龍。命發塜視之。唯塊石存焉。季龍大惡之歎曰。石吾姓也。大和尚埋我而去。其能久乎。未幾石氏果滅。澄度弟子數千萬人。凡居其所。國人無敢向之涕唾。每相戒曰。莫起惡心。大和尚知汝。其道化感物如此。自大教東來。至澄而盛。

(19) Fotudeng from Tianzhu arrived in Luoyang. He claimed to be over one hundred years old. He regularly practiced breath cultivation to nourish himself, and could go many days without eating. He was adept at chanting spells to command ghosts and spirits. In his side there was an aperture plugged with cotton; when reading at night, he pulled out the cotton, and light shone forth to illuminate the room. Moreover, whenever he approached a stream, he would draw out his intestines and stomach through the aperture, wash them, and put them back into his abdomen. He could listen to the sound of bells and foretell good and bad fortune, which never failed to be extraordinarily accurate. Encountering the bandit rebellions in Luoyang, he lay concealed in the countryside to observe the changes of the times. At that time, Shi Le was garrisoned at Gebei and engaged in much slaughter. Deng, holding his tin staff, went to see Shi Le. Shi Le ordered him to demonstrate his spiritual arts. Deng took a bowl full of water and chanted over it; in a short moment, blue lotus flowers bloomed within the bowl, their dazzling colors radiant. Shi Le was filled with divine reverence from this and invited him into the army. Before long, Liu Yao sought battle to decide the contest. Shi Le's attendants thought it inadvisable, so Shi Le consulted Deng. Deng said, "The bells upon the wheel-spires of the stupa say: 'Xiuzhitilǐgang pugugutudang.' This is the Jie language. 'Xiuzhi' means the army; 'tilǐgang' means to go out; 'pugu' is Liu Yao's barbarian title; 'gutudang' means to capture. It means that when the army goes out, it will capture Liu Yao." He also ordered a young boy to purify himself and fast for three days, took sesame oil mixed with rouge, personally smeared it onto his own palm, and raised his hand to show it to the boy, which shone brightly. The boy said in alarm, "There are soldiers and horses! A fair-skinned man has his elbows bound with red silk." Deng said, "This is indeed Yao." Shi Le thereupon set forth for battle and indeed captured Liu Yao alive. Shi Le assumed the title of King of Zhao and performed the duties of emperor; he revered Deng all the more devotedly, and whenever he undertook an affair, he always consulted him before acting. When Shi Le passed away, his brother Jilong succeeded to the throne, moved the capital to Yecheng, and was even more devoted to serving Deng. He issued an order that Deng be clothed in damask and brocade and ride in an engraved carriage. When he was granted audience at court assemblies, the regular attendants and imperial censors all assisted in carrying his palanquin up to the hall, and the crown prince and noble lords supported him by the arms as he advanced. The master of ceremonies would call out, "The Great Monk!" and all who were seated stood up. He ordered Sikong Ji Nong to pay respects morning and evening. At that time, Zhi Daolin heard of it and said, "Does Master Deng consider Jilong to be like an ordinary seagull?" When the Jin army invaded Huai and Si, Jilong said angrily, "I venerated the Buddha and made offerings to the Saṃgha, yet on the contrary this has brought about bandits. The Buddha has no divine power!" Deng entered and had an audience with him, saying, "Your Majesty in a past life was a merchant; passing by a monastery in Jibin, you held a great assembly. Present at the assembly were six arhats, of whom I was one. An enlightened holy one said: 'When this donor's karmic retribution ends, he will become a rooster, and then will be king in the land of Jin.' Now that Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, is it not the result of having venerated the Buddha and made offerings to the Saṃgha? Boundary encroachments are common to any state; why resent and slander the Three Jewels and give rise to venomous thoughts?" Jilong repented and apologized, and then asked, "The Buddha-Dharma forbids killing. I hold power over life and death for the realm; I fear I am violating the Buddhist precepts." Deng said, "An emperor serves the Buddha through respect, frugality, benevolence, and endurance; manifestly exalting the path of the Dharma, not committing cruelty, and not harming the innocent. If there are people who do evil and do not repent after transformation, how can they not be punished? It is only that killing must not be indiscriminate and punishments must not be applied without pity." Minister of the Secretariat Zhang Li was wealthy and served the Buddha, yet his conduct was unlawful. Deng said, "Serving the Buddha lies in purity and freedom from desires. Although you lavishly adorn temples and pagodas, being relentlessly greedy brings no benefit." When he was about to pass away, he went to take leave of Jilong. Jilong said in shock, "The Great Monk is suddenly abandoning me; will calamity befall the state?" Deng said, "Coming into life and departing into death is the regular law of the Way. Length of life is fixed by destiny and cannot be increased or diminished. However, in the Way, perfection of practice is valued, and in virtue, diligence is valued. If virtuous practice is unblemished, though one dies, it is as if one lives; if entirely lacking these, what benefit is there even in living a thousand years? Yet there is something regrettable: the state set its mind on Buddhist principles, building monasteries and ordaining monks, and ought to have received blessings; yet governance has been harsh and cruel, and rewards and punishments have been utterly disordered, running specifically counter to the holy teaching, which has caused the state's mandate not to be prolonged." Jilong wailed and sobbed. Deng sat peacefully and passed away. Later, a śramaṇa came from Yongzhou and saw Deng entering the pass; he reported this to Jilong. Jilong ordered Deng's tomb opened to inspect it, and only a stone was found inside. Jilong was deeply troubled and sighed, "Shi is my surname. The Great Monk buried me and left; how could I last long?" Before long, the Shi clan was indeed destroyed. Deng ordained millions of disciples. Wherever he stayed, no one in the country dared to spit in his direction, and people frequently admonished one another, saying, "Do not harbor evil thoughts; the Great Monk knows you." His moral transformation moved living beings in this manner. From the time the Great Teaching arrived in the East, it flourished greatest with Deng.