高僧傳 10.10

10.10

安慧則，未詳氏族。少無恒性，卓越異人，而工正書，善談吐。晉永嘉中，天下疫病，則晝夜祈誠，願天神降藥以愈萬民。一日出寺門，見兩石形如甕，則疑是異物。取看之，果有神水在內。病者飲服，莫不皆愈。後止洛陽大市寺，手自細書黃縑，寫《大品經》一部，合為一卷。字如小豆，而分明可識，凡十餘本。以一本與汝南周仲智妻胡母氏供養。胡母過江，齎經自隨，後為災火所延，倉卒不暇取經，悲泣懊惱。火息後，乃於灰中得之。首軸顏色，一無虧損。于時同見聞者，莫不迴邪改信。此經今在京師簡靖寺首尼處。

An Huize's clan is unknown. In his youth he had no fixed habits and stood out as an extraordinary person, being skilled in regular script and fine conversation. During the Yongjia era of the Jin, epidemics spread across the realm; Ze prayed day and night with sincerity, wishing that the heavenly deities would bestow medicine to heal the myriad people. One day, going out of the temple gate, he saw two stones shaped like jars. Ze suspected they were extraordinary objects, so he took them and inspected them; inside there was indeed divine water. Any sick person who drank it was healed. Later he stayed at the Dashi Temple in Luoyang, where he copied a complete copy of the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra in fine calligraphy on yellow silk by hand, condensing it into a single scroll. The characters were as small as little beans, yet distinct and legible; in all there were over ten copies. He gave one copy to the wife of Zhou Zhongzhi of Runan, Lady Humu, for worship. When Lady Humu crossed the Yangtze River, she carried the sūtra with her. Later, caught in a conflagration, she was unable to retrieve the sūtra in the panic, and wept with grief and distress. After the fire was extinguished, she found it amid the ashes; the front roller and the colors were completely undamaged. Those who saw and heard of this at the time all turned from heterodoxy and took up faith. This sūtra is now kept by the head nun of the Jianjing Convent in the capital.