釋鑑稽古略續集 2.154

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壬申洪武二十五年。試經給僧度牒　勅僧錄司。行移天下僧司。造僧籍冊。刊布寺院。互相周知。名為周知板冊　四月二十五日皇太子薨。諡懿文　九月立嫡長孫允文為皇太子。以方孝孺為漢中教授。孝孺台州寧海人。聰頴絕倫。雙眸烱烱如電。讀書一目十行俱下。鄉人呼為小韓子。宋濂謂曰。子之文非當世之文也。太祖謂皇太子曰。此莊士也。又曰異人也。後建文末狥忠　冬上患熱病危甚。諸御醫進藥皆無效。俄有赤脚僧。詣闕下云。天眼尊者及周顛仙。遣進藥視其藥。一曰溫涼藥。一曰溫涼石一磈。其方用盆盛石磨藥。注之沈香醆以服。上服之。服在未時間。至點燈時遍體抽掣。藥之効也。其藥味香如菖蒲。而醆底凝硃。紅彩逈異。是夜病愈。精神日強　十二月初六日。僧錄司左善世夷簡等。於奉天門欽奉聖旨。各處有通佛法性理高僧。訪問得幾人。取將來善世寺。住欽此　十二月二十一日。欽依關領清教錄一百四十五本。發與各處僧綱司。依本刊板印造。俵散所屬寺院僧人。

In the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, the year Renshen (1392), sūtra examinations were held to grant ordination certificates to monks. An edict ordered the Central Buddhist Registry to issue instructions to Buddhist registries across the realm to compile monastic registers, carve and print them, and distribute them to monasteries so that they might know one another, called the 'Universal Knowledge Board Registers' (zhouzhi bance). On the twenty-fifth day of the fourth month, the Crown Prince died and was given the posthumous title Yiwen. In the ninth month, the eldest legitimate grandson Yunwen was installed as Crown Prince, and Fang Xiaoru was appointed Instructor of Hanzhong. Xiaoru was a native of Ninghai in Taizhou, extraordinarily intelligent, with eyes gleaming like lightning; he could read ten lines of text at a single glance. Locals called him 'Little Hanzi'. Song Lian said of him: 'Your writings are not mere writings of this generation.' Taizu said to the Crown Prince: 'This is a serious man,' and also: 'An extraordinary man.' Later, at the end of the Jianwen era, he died for his loyalty. In winter, the Emperor suffered a severe fever and was critically ill. The imperial physicians administered medicines without effect. Suddenly, a barefoot monk came before the palace gates, saying that the Venerable of Heavenly Eyes and the Mad Immortal Zhou had sent him to present medicine. Looking at the medicine, one was called 'Warm-and-Cool Medicine', and the other was a piece of 'Warm-and-Cool Stone'. The prescription directed holding the stone in a basin to grind the medicine, pouring it into an eaglewood cup to drink. The Emperor took it; he ingested it during the wei hour (1–3 p.m.), and by the time lamps were lit, his entire body suffered spasms, which was the efficacy of the medicine. The medicine tasted as fragrant as sweet flag, and at the bottom of the cup, cinnabar condensed with extraordinary bright red color. That night his illness was cured, and his vitality grew stronger day by day. On the sixth day of the twelfth month, Yijian, Left Exalter of the World of the Central Buddhist Registry, and others reverently received the Imperial Edict at Fengtian Gate: 'How many eminent monks versed in the Buddha's Dharma and nature-principle have been found by inquiry in the various localities? Bring them to reside at Shanshi Monastery. Respect this.' On the twenty-first day of the twelfth month, following imperial approval, one hundred and forty-five copies of the Qingjiao lu (Record of Purifying the Teachings) were received and issued to the Prefectural Buddhist Registries in various localities, to be carved on printing blocks according to the text, printed, and distributed to the monasteries and monks under their jurisdiction.