高僧傳 10.42

10.42

釋法朗，高昌人。幼而執行精苦，多諸徵瑞，韜光蘊德，人莫測其所階。朗師釋法進亦高行沙門。進嘗閉戶獨坐，忽見朗在前，問從何處來？答云：「從戶鑰中入。」云：「與遠僧俱至，日既將中，願為設食。」進即為設食，唯聞匕鉢之聲，竟不見人。昔廬山慧遠嘗以一袈裟遺進，進即以為䞋。朗云：「眾僧已去，別日當取之。」後見執爨者就進取衣，進即與之。訪常執爨者，皆云不取，方知是先聖人權迹取也。至魏虜毀滅佛法，朗西適龜茲。龜茲王與彼國大禪師結約：「若有得道者至，當為我說，我當供養。」及朗至，乃以白王，王待以聖禮。後終於龜茲。焚屍之日，兩眉涌泉直上于天。眾歎希有，收骨起塔。後西域人來北土，具傳此事。

Shi Falang was a man of Gaochang. From his youth, his ascetic practices were rigorous and arduous, and there were many auspicious omens; he concealed his brilliance and stored up virtue, so that no one could fathom the stage he had reached. Lang's master, Shi Fajin, was also an eminent śramaṇa. Jin once sat alone behind closed doors when he suddenly saw Lang before him and asked where he had come from. Lang replied, "I entered through the keyhole." He said, "I have arrived together with monks from afar; as noon approaches, please prepare a meal for them." Jin immediately prepared a meal for them; he heard only the sound of spoons and bowls, but never saw anyone. Formerly, Huiyuan of Mount Lu had given Jin a kāṣāya, which Jin now offered as a donation. Lang said, "The assembly of monks has already departed; they will take it another day." Later, someone tending the kitchen came to Jin to fetch the robe, and Jin gave it to him. When he asked the regular kitchen attendants, they all said they had not taken it; only then did he realize that a holy being of old had manifested an expedient form to take it. When the Wei caitiffs destroyed the Buddhadharma, Lang went west to Kucha. The king of Kucha made a pact with the great dhyāna master of that country: "If one who has attained the Way arrives, you must tell me, and I will make offerings to him." When Lang arrived, the master informed the king, and the king received him with the courtesies due a holy man. Later he died in Kucha. On the day his corpse was cremated, springs gushed forth from his two eyebrows, shooting straight up into the sky. The multitude marveled at this rare occurrence, collected his bones, and erected a stūpa. Later, people from the Western Regions came to the northern lands and fully recounted this matter.