高僧傳 12.42

12.42

釋普明，姓張，臨淄人。少出家，稟性清純，蔬食布衣，以懺誦為業。誦《法華》、《維摩》二經。及誦之時，有別衣別座，未嘗穢雜。每誦至〈勸發品〉，輒見普賢乘象，立在其前。誦《維摩經》，亦聞空中唱樂。又善神呪，所救皆愈。有鄉人王道真妻病，請明來呪。明入門，婦便悶絕。俄見一物如狸，長數尺許，從狗竇出，因此而愈。明嘗行水傍祠，巫覡自云：「神見之，皆奔走。」以宋孝建中卒，春秋八十有五。

Shi Puming, whose lay surname was Zhang, was a native of Linzi. He left household life in his youth, was pure and uncorrupted by nature, ate vegetables, wore coarse cloth, and took repentance and recitation as his practice. He recited the two sūtras, the Lotus and the Vimalakīrti. When reciting them, he had separate robes and a separate seat, never allowing any defilement or impurity. Whenever he recited up to the chapter "Encouragement [of Bodhisattva Samantabhadra]," he would always see Samantabhadra riding an elephant, standing before him. Reciting the Vimalakīrti-sūtra, he would also hear heavenly music in the air. Furthermore, he was skilled in divine dhāraṇīs, and all whom he treated were healed. The wife of his fellow townsman Wang Daozhen fell ill, and invited Puming to chant spells. When Puming entered the gate, the woman fainted. Soon a creature like a leopard cat, several feet long, was seen emerging from the doghole, and she was cured as a result. Puming once walked past a shrine by the water, and the spirit medium said, "When the spirits saw him, they all fled." He died during the Xiaojian reign period of the Song, at the age of eighty-five.