宋高僧傳 16.23

16.23

釋法相，姓俞氏，吳長水人也。天寶中誕育，為孾兒卓異，七歲投師，受經法三浹旬，誦通《法華》全部。弱冠往長安安國寺，得滿足戒，即大曆中也。便於上京習毘尼道，諸部同異，無不該綜，涉十一載，蔚成其業。傳法東歸，請學者如林。吳郡太守奏於開元寺置戒壇，相預臨壇之選。尋充依止，兼眾推為寺綱管，恒施二眾歸戒。行佩漉囊，器不畜長。每有鳥棲于座側，馳斥不去。會昌元年二月十日午時三刻，告弟子清濬、清高：「吾當滅矣。」儼然累足右脇而逝。時眾晝聞管絃清亮，乃天樂也；夕覩異光。春秋八十九，僧臘六十九。四月遷塔于來蘇鄉之原，白塔是也。後弟子率義州刺史曹信、大理司直吳方重修塔，發之，見相遺骨若銅色，舌相不壞若芙蓉焉，齒全四十二。香湯沐之，重葬，蓋景福二年癸丑歲五月二十二日也。高弟子公靜，靜弟子行蘊，蘊弟子仁表，表弟子玄杲，杲本清白之僧也，同鴻啟重修靈光一寺，為兵革殘毀之後也。杲公、啟公後偕隱天台習禪觀，相次終于山，焚之皆獲舍利焉。

Shi Faxiang, surname Yu, was a native of Changshui in Wu. Born during the Tianbao era, he was an extraordinary infant; at the age of seven he went to a master, and within three ten-day periods of receiving the scriptural teachings, he had chanted and mastered the entire Lotus Sūtra. At the age of twenty he went to Anguo Temple in Chang'an and received the full ordination, which was during the Dali era. He then studied the path of the vinaya in the imperial capital, comprehensively mastering the agreements and differences among the various schools; over the course of eleven years, he achieved great eminence in his vocation. Transmitting the Dharma, he returned east, where those requesting instruction gathered like a forest. The prefect of Wujun memorialized to establish an ordination platform at Kaiyuan Temple, and Xiang was selected to oversee the platform. Soon he served as an upādhyāya, and was concurrently elected by the community as monastery administrator, constantly administering the refuges and precepts to the two assemblies. On his travels he wore a water-strainer, and his vessels did not exceed what was permitted. Birds would constantly perch beside his seat, remaining without flying off even when driven away. On the tenth day of the second month of the first year of the Huichang era, at the third quarter of the hour of the horse, he told his disciples Qingjun and Qinggao: 'I am about to pass into extinction.' Dignified, crossing his legs and resting on his right side, he passed away. At that time, the assembly heard the clear and resonant sound of string and wind instruments during the day, which was heavenly music; at night they saw an extraordinary light. His age was eighty-nine, and his saṅgha age was sixty-nine. In the fourth month, his stupa was relocated to the plains of Laisu Township, which is the White Pagoda. Later, his disciples led Cao Xin, prefect of Yizhou, and Wu Fang, judicial investigator of the Court of Judicial Review, to renovate the stupa; upon opening it, they saw that Xiang's remaining bones were of a bronze color, his tongue was undamaged like a lotus blossom, and all forty-two teeth were intact. Washing them with fragrant water, they reinterred them on the twenty-second day of the fifth month of the second year of the Jingfu era, the guichou year. Gao's disciple was Gongjing; Jing's disciple was Xingyun; Yun's disciple was Renbiao; Biao's disciple was Xuan'gao. Gao was originally a pure and upright monk; together with Hongqi, he rebuilt the entire Lingguang Temple after it had been ruined by warfare. Master Gao and Master Qi later withdrew together into Mount Tiantai to practice dhyāna contemplation, and passed away in the mountains one after the other; when their bodies were cremated, śarīras were obtained from both.