高僧傳 10.44

10.44

邵碩者，本姓邵名碩，始康人。居無常所，怳忽如狂，為人大口，眉目醜拙。小兒好追而弄之。或入酒肆同人酣飲。而性好佛法，每見形像，無不禮拜贊，歎悲感流淚。碩本有三男二女，大男惠生者亦出家。碩以宋初亦出家入道，自稱碩公。出入行往，不擇晝夜。遊歷益部諸縣，及往蠻中，皆因事言謔，協以勸善。至人家眠地者，人家必有死。就人乞細席，必有小兒亡，時人咸以此為讖。至四月八日，成都行像，碩於眾中匍匐作師子形。爾日郡縣亦言見碩作師子形，乃悟其分身也。

Shao Shuo had the original surname Shao and the personal name Shuo, and was a native of Shikang. He had no fixed dwelling and was bewildered as if mad, having a large mouth and coarse, unsightly facial features. Young children liked to pursue and tease him. Sometimes he entered taverns and drank deeply with others. Yet by nature he loved the Buddhadharma; whenever he saw images, he never failed to bow in veneration, utter praises, and weep with poignant emotion. Shuo originally had three sons and two daughters; his eldest son, Huisheng, had also renounced the household. At the beginning of the Song dynasty, Shuo also renounced the household to enter the path, calling himself Master Shuo. When coming and going, he did not distinguish day from night. Traveling through the various counties of the Yi region and going among the Man tribes, he made jokes according to circumstance, adapting them to encourage good deeds. When he went to someone's house and slept on the ground, someone in that house was sure to die. When he begged someone for a fine mat, a young child was sure to perish; the people of the time all took these as omens. On the eighth day of the fourth month, when images were paraded in Chengdu, Shuo crawled on the ground in the crowd imitating the shape of a lion. That day, other commanderies and counties also reported seeing Shuo assume the shape of a lion, and they then realized he was bilocating.