續高僧傳 25.123

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釋童進。姓李。綿州人。昔周出家。不拘禮度。唯樂飲酒。謂人曰。此可以灌等身也。來去酣醉。遺尿臭穢。眾共非之。有遠識者曰。此賢愚難識。會周武東征。云須毒藥。勅瀘州營造。置監吏力科。獠採藥蝮頭鐵猩𩰿根大蜂野葛鴆羽等數十種。釀以鐵瓮。藥成。著皮衣。琉璃障眼。方得近之。不爾氣衝成瘡致死。藥著人畜肉穿便死。童進聞之。往彼監所。官人弄曰。能飲一盃豈非酒士。進曰。得一升解酲亦要。官曰。任飲多少。何論一升。便取鐵杓。於藥瓮中取一杓飲之。言謔自若。都不為患。道士等聞皆來看。進又舉一杓以勸之。皆遠走避。或曰。此乃故殺人。何得無罪。進曰。無所苦藥。進自飲有誰相勸。乃噫曰。今日得一醉臥方石上。俄爾遺尿所著石皆碎。良久睡覺。精爽如常。爾後飲酒更多。食亦逾倍。隋初得度。配等行寺。抱疾月餘而終。年九十餘。弟子檀越等。終後檢校衣服。床褥皆香。絕無酒氣。

Śramaṇa Tongjin was surnamed Li and was a native of Mianzhou. In the former Zhou dynasty he had renounced household life, but did not adhere to ritual etiquette, delighting only in drinking wine. He would say to people, "This can water my life-size body." He came and went dead drunk, discharging foul-smelling urine. The multitude condemned him together. Those with far-reaching insight said, "It is difficult to discern between the worthy and the foolish in him." It coincided with Emperor Wu of the Zhou launching an eastern expedition, where it was said that poison was needed; an edict ordered Luzhou to manufacture it. Officers and corvée laborers were appointed to supervise, and indigenous tribesmen gathered several dozen kinds of ingredients: viper heads, iron scorpions, aconite roots, giant hornets, wild kudzu, and gelsemium feathers. These were brewed in iron vats. When the poison was finished, one had to wear leather garments and shield the eyes with crystal to approach it; otherwise, the fumes would cause sores and lead to death. If the poison touched the flesh of humans or beasts, it would pierce through and cause immediate death. Hearing of this, Tongjin went to the supervisory office. An official teased him, saying, "If you can drink a cup, are you not truly a man of wine?" Jin said, "To get a sheng to sober up is also needed." The official said, "Drink as much as you wish; why talk of just one sheng?" Tongjin then took an iron ladle, scooped a ladle from the vat of poison, and drank it. He joked and laughed as if nothing had happened, entirely unharmed. Daoists and others, hearing of this, all came to watch. Jin then raised a ladle to offer it to them, but they all fled far away. Someone said, "This is an intentional attempt to kill people; how can you go unpunished?" Jin said, "This medicine causes no distress. I, Jin, drank it of my own accord; who urged me to do so?" Then he sighed and said, "Today I have gotten drunk!" and lay down on a square stone. Soon, his discharged urine shattered the stone where it touched. After a long sleep he woke up, his spirit as bright as usual. Thereafter, he drank even more wine, and his eating also doubled. In the early Sui, he was ordained and assigned to Dengxing Monastery. He suffered from an illness for over a month and passed away at the age of over ninety. After his death, his disciples and dānapatis inspected his clothes, bed, and mattress; all were fragrant, entirely without any smell of wine.