高僧傳 10.12

10.12

涉公者，西域人也。虛靖服氣，不食五穀，日能行五百里。言未然之事，驗若指掌。以苻堅建元十二年至長安。能以祕呪呪下神龍，每旱，堅常請之呪龍，俄而龍下鉢中，天輒大雨。堅及群臣親就鉢中觀之，咸歎其異。堅奉為國神，士庶皆投身接足，自是無復炎旱之憂。至十六年十二月無疾而化，堅哭之甚慟。卒後七日，堅以其神異，試開棺視之，不見尸骸所在，唯有殮被存焉。至十七年，自正月不雨，至于六月。堅減膳撤懸，以迎和氣，至七月降雨。堅謂中書朱肜曰：「涉公若在，朕豈燋心於雲漢若是哉？此公其大聖乎！」肜曰：「斯術幽遠，實亦曠古之奇也。」

Master She was a native of the Western Regions. With an empty and quiet mind, he practiced breath ingestion, abstained from the five grains, and could walk five hundred li a day. When he spoke of future events, his predictions were as clear as pointing to the palm of one's hand. In the twelfth year of the Jianyuan era of Fu Jian, he arrived in Chang'an. He was able to summon divine dragons using secret incantations. Whenever there was a drought, Jian would often ask him to conjure dragons; shortly thereafter, a dragon would descend into his bowl, and torrential rain would fall from the sky. Jian and his ministers went in person to the bowl to view it, and all marveled at its wondrousness. Jian venerated him as the protector spirit of the state, and both scholars and commoners threw themselves down to touch his feet; from then on there was no longer any worry of scorching drought. In the twelfth month of the sixteenth year, he died without illness, and Jian wept for him with deep sorrow. Seven days after his death, Jian, mindful of his miraculous powers, tried opening the coffin to look, but found no sign of his corpse; only the shrouding coverlet remained. In the seventeenth year, no rain fell from the first month until the sixth month. Jian reduced his meals and removed musical suspensions to invite harmonious qi, and rain fell in the seventh month. Jian said to the Palace Secretariat Zhu Rong: "Had Master She been here, would We have scorched our heart gazing at the Milky Way like this? Was this master not a great sage?" Rong said: "His arts were deep and mysterious, truly a marvel unprecedented in ancient times."