續高僧傳 25.139

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釋慧因。姓張。清河武城人。昔依賢法師。後以雅志卓然眾所推伏。欲屈知寺任。遂巡於蜀川詢求禪律。訪無夷險必往參請。唐運大通。自蜀而返。于時州別一寺。但三十僧。因即其一。持維志節終始無忘。後為開聖本寺。去荊五十餘里。山藪曠逈阻絕風烟。乃獨止此山草菴蘭若。二十餘載。四遠咸依。昔智者遺言。今宛符會。貞觀十九年大旱。而寺石泉獨無有竭。乃自負水外給。飛走由斯獲濟。江陵令盧行餘。承聞往之。索水飲馬。因負而給之。行餘謂少。頗出恚言。便遣馬就寺。俄值群猪來。路人無敢犯。後有二人。寺北竊食辛肉。虎來擁遶哮吼。將噉其人。得急逃竄無方。因聞往救。虎乃潛退。斯戒德慈明為若此也。法華一部。毘尼戒本。行往常誦。未忘心口。年七十五。卒於本寺。

Shi Huiyin was surnamed Zhang and was a native of Wucheng in Qinghe. Formerly, he relied on Master Xian; later, because his noble aspirations were eminent and all the assembly submitted in deference to him, they wished to constrain him into the duty of directing the monastery. Thereupon he traveled through the Sichuan plains to inquire into and seek out dhyāna and the Vinaya; he visited without regard to level terrain or danger, unfailingly going to consult them. When the fortunes of the Tang opened broadly, he returned from Shu. At that time, each prefecture was limited to one monastery with only thirty monks; Yin was one of them. Upholding his discipline and moral aspirations, he never forgot them from beginning to end. Later, he founded the Kaisheng Mother Monastery, more than fifty li from Jingzhou; the mountain marshes were vast and distant, cutting off all secular dust and smoke. He thus stayed alone in a grass hut araṇya on this mountain for over twenty years, and people from the four directions all relied upon him. The former dying words of Master Zhizhe now coincided exactly. In the nineteenth year of Zhenguan [645], there was a severe drought, yet the stone spring of the monastery alone never dried up; he personally carried water to supply those outside, and flying and walking creatures were saved thereby. The Magistrate of Jiangling, Lu Xingyu, went there upon hearing of it and demanded water to water his horses. Yin carried it and supplied him. Xingyu considered it too little and uttered rather resentful words; he then dispatched the horses toward the monastery. Presently, they encountered a herd of pigs coming along, and none of the travelers dared disturb them. Later, there were two men who secretly ate pungent roots and meat to the north of the monastery; a tiger came and encircled them, roaring, about to devour the men. In panic, they had no way to flee. Hearing this, Yin went to rescue them, and the tiger then slunk away. His moral virtue and compassionate clarity were like this. The entire Lotus Sūtra and the Vinaya Prātimokṣa he constantly recited while walking or staying, never forgetting them in mind or mouth. At the age of seventy-five, he passed away at his home monastery.