宋高僧傳 14.16

14.16

釋真表者，百濟人也。家在金山，世為弋獵。表多蹻捷，弓矢最便。當開元中，逐獸之餘，憩於田畎間，折柳條貫蝦蟇成串，置於水中，擬為食調。遂入山網捕。因逐鹿，由山北路歸家，全忘取貫蟇歟。至明年春，獵次，聞蟇鳴。就水，見去載所貫三十許蝦蟇猶活。表於時歎惋，自責曰：「苦哉？何為口腹，令彼經年受苦？」乃絕柳條，徐輕放縱。因發意出家，自思惟曰：「我若堂下辭親，室中割愛，難離慾海，莫揭愚籠。」由是逃入深山，以刀截髮，苦到懺悔，舉身撲地，志求戒法，誓願要期彌勒菩薩授我戒法也。夜倍日功，遶旋叩搕，心心無間，念念翹勤，經於七宵。詰旦，見地藏菩薩手搖金錫，為表策發，教發戒緣，作受前方便。感斯瑞應，歎喜遍身，勇猛過前。二七日滿，有大鬼現可怖相，而推表墜於巖下，身無所傷。匍匐就登石壇上，加復魔相未休，百端千緒。至第三七日質明，有吉祥鳥鳴曰：「菩薩來也。」乃見白雲若浸粉然，更無高下，山川平滿，成銀色世界，兜率天主逶迤自在，儀衛陸離，圍遶石壇，香風華雨，且非凡世之景物焉。爾時慈氏徐步而行，至於壇所，垂手摩表頂曰：「善哉！大丈夫求戒如是，至於再，至於三，蘇迷盧可手攘而却，爾心終不退。」乃為授法，表身心和悅，猶如三禪意識與樂根相應也。四萬二千福河，常流一切功德，尋發天眼焉。慈氏躬授三法衣、瓦鉢，復賜名曰真表。又於膝下出二物，非牙非玉，乃籤檢之制也，一題曰「九者」，一題曰「八者」，各二字，付度表云：「若人求戒，當先悔罪。罪福則持犯，性也。」更加一百八籤，籤上署百八煩惱名目，「如來戒人，或九十日，或四十日，或三七日行懺，苦到精進，期滿限終，將九、八二籤參合百八者，佛前望空而擲。其籤墮地，以驗罪滅、不滅之相。若百八籤飛逗四畔，唯八、九二籤卓然壇心而立者，即得上上品戒焉；若眾籤雖遠，或一二來觸九、八籤，拈觀是何煩惱名，抑令前人重覆懺悔已。正將重悔煩惱籤和九、八者，擲其煩惱籤，去者名中品戒焉。若眾籤埋覆九、八者，則罪不滅，不得戒也。設加懺悔過九十日，得下品戒焉。」慈氏重告誨云：「八者新熏也，九者本有焉。」囑累已，天仗既迴，山川雲霽。於是持天衣，執天鉢——猶如五夏比丘——，徇道下山。草木為其低垂覆路，殊無溪谷高下之別。飛禽鷙獸，馴伏步前。又聞空中唱告村落聚邑，言菩薩出山來，何不迎接？時則人民男女布髮掩泥者、脫衣覆路者、氈罽𣰽毺承足者、華絪美褥填坑者，表咸曲副人情，一一迪踐。有女子提半端白㲲覆於途中，表似驚忙之色，迴避別行。女子怪其不平等，表曰：「吾非無慈不均也，適觀㲲縷間皆是狶子，吾慮傷生，避其誤犯耳。」原其女子，本屠家販買得此布也。自爾常有二虎左右隨行，表語之曰：「吾不入郛郭，汝可導引至可修行處。」則乃緩步而行三十來里，就一山坡，蹲跽於前。時則挂錫樹枝，敷草端坐。四望信士，不勸自來，同造伽藍，號金山寺焉。後人求戒，年年懺罪者絕多，今影堂中道具存焉。

Śramaṇa Jinpyo was a native of Baekje. His family lived at Geumsan and had been hunters for generations. Jinpyo was very agile and exceptionally skilled with bow and arrow. During the Kaiyuan era, while resting in the field furrows after chasing game, he broke a willow twig, strung together a cluster of frogs, and placed them in the water intending to prepare them for food. He then entered the mountains to hunt with nets. Because he chased a deer, he returned home by the northern mountain trail, completely forgetting to retrieve the strung frogs. In the spring of the following year, while out hunting again, he heard frogs croaking. Approaching the water, he saw that the thirty or so frogs he had strung up the previous year were still alive. Jinpyo sighed in sorrow and reproached himself, saying: "How bitter! Why, for the sake of mouth and belly, did I make them suffer for a whole year?" He then severed the willow twig and gently set them free. He thereupon resolved to renounce household life, reflecting to himself: "If I bid farewell to my parents in the hall and sever affections within the home, it will still be difficult to depart from the ocean of desire, and impossible to tear away the cage of ignorance." Because of this, he fled into the deep mountains, cut off his hair with a knife, engaged in bitter and earnest repentance, throwing his entire body to the ground, aspiring to seek the precepts, and vowing that Bodhisattva Maitreya himself would confer the precepts upon him. At night he doubled his daytime efforts, circumambulating, prostrating, and knocking his head, mind after mind unbroken, thought after thought zealous and diligent, for seven nights. At dawn, he saw Bodhisattva Kṣitigarbha, who with golden staff shaking in hand, came to inspire and encourage Jinpyo, teaching him the conditions for generating the precepts and serving as the expedient preparation prior to receiving them. Deeply moved by this auspicious response, joy surged throughout his entire body, and his vigor surpassed what it had been before. When the second seven days were complete, a great demon manifested a terrifying form and pushed Jinpyo off the cliff, yet his body suffered no injury. Crawling on hands and knees, he ascended the stone platform; furthermore, demonic manifestations did not cease, arising in a hundred forms and a thousand threads. At dawn on the third seventh day, an auspicious bird called out, saying: "The Bodhisattva has come!" He then saw white clouds as if washed in chalk; there were no longer high or low places, the mountains and streams were level and full, forming a silvery world. The Lord of Tuṣita Heaven walked gracefully and at ease, his guards of honor resplendent, surrounding the stone platform; fragrant breezes and flower rains fell, scenery by no means belonging to the mundane world. At that time the Merciful One walked slowly forward until he reached the platform, lowered his hand, stroked Jinpyo's crown, and said: "Excellent! Great man, your seeking of the precepts like this—once, twice, thrice—even Mount Sumeru could be pushed away by hand, yet your mind would never retreat!" He then conferred the Dharma upon him. Jinpyo's body and mind were harmonious and joyful, just like the mental consciousness in the third dhyāna corresponding with the faculty of pleasure. Forty-two thousand rivers of blessings constantly flowed with all merits, and he soon attained the divine eye. The Merciful One personally conferred upon him the three Dharma robes and an earthenware bowl, and further bestowed upon him the name Jinpyo. From beneath his knees he also produced two items, neither ivory nor jade, but fashioned as tallies: one inscribed "Nine" and the other "Eight," two characters each, which he transmitted to Jinpyo, saying: "If someone seeks the precepts, they must first repent of their sins. Sins and blessings, then, are keeping and violating, by nature." He additionally gave him one hundred and eight tallies, inscribed with the names of the one hundred and eight afflictions, [saying]: "When the Tathāgata regulates people, they practice repentance for ninety days, forty days, or three times seven days. Diligent and striving to the utmost, when the term is reached and the limit ends, one takes the two tallies of Nine and Eight, combines them with the one hundred and eight, and casts them into the air before the Buddha. When the tallies fall to the ground, this verifies the marks of whether sins have been extinguished or not. If the one hundred and eight tallies fly and scatter all around, and only the two tallies of Eight and Nine stand prominently in the center of the platform, then one attains the highest-grade precepts. If the numerous tallies are far off, but one or two touch the Nine or Eight tallies, pick them up and examine which affliction names they bear, and instruct the person to repent anew. Then take the tallies of the afflictions repented anew, mix them with the Nine and Eight, and cast them again: if the affliction tallies fly away, this is called the middle-grade precepts. If the numerous tallies bury and cover the Nine and Eight, then the sins are not extinguished, and one does not attain the precepts. If, adding repentance, it exceeds ninety days, one attains the lowest-grade precepts." The Merciful One instructed him again, saying: "The Eight is newly cultivated, and the Nine is innately possessed." Having given these admonitions and entrustments, the heavenly retinue returned, and the mountains and rivers cleared of clouds. Thereupon, holding the heavenly robes and carrying the heavenly bowl—like a monk of five summer retreats—he followed the road down the mountain. The trees and grasses drooped low to cover the path for him, and there was no distinction between high and low in the streams and valleys. Birds and ferocious beasts walked tamely before him. In the sky a voice was also heard proclaiming to villages and settlements: "The Bodhisattva has come out of the mountain; why do you not welcome him?" At that time, men and women spread their hair to cover the mud, took off their clothes to cover the road, used carpets and rugs to support his feet, and filled pits with flowered mattresses and fine cushions; Jinpyo complied with everyone's goodwill and stepped across each of them. There was a woman who held out half a bolt of white fine cloth to spread across the path; Jinpyo showed a startled and alarmed expression, turning aside to take another path. The woman wondered at his lack of impartiality. Jinpyo said: "It is not that I lack equal compassion; just now I observed that within the threads of the cloth there were all lice eggs; fearing to harm life, I avoided accidentally stepping on them." Investigating this woman, [it turned out] she had originally purchased this cloth from a butcher's household. From then on, two tigers constantly accompanied him on his left and right. Jinpyo said to them: "I will not enter the walled cities; you may guide me to a place suitable for cultivation." They then strode slowly for some thirty leagues, reached a mountain slope, and squatted down before him. He then hung his tin staff on a tree branch, spread grass, and sat upright. Faithful laypeople from the four directions arrived on their own without being summoned, and together they built a monastery, named Geumsan Temple. Later on, those who sought the precepts and repented of their sins year after year were exceedingly numerous; today, his implements of practice are still preserved in the portrait hall.