宋高僧傳 18.20

18.20

釋萬迴，俗姓張氏，虢州閿鄉人也。年尚弱齡，白癡不語，父母哀其濁氣。為隣里兒童所侮，終無相競之態。然口自呼「萬迴」，因爾字焉。且不言寒暑，見貧賤不加其慢，富貴不足其恭，東西狂走，終日不息。或笑或哭，略無定容，口角恒滴涎沫，人皆異之。不好華侈，尤少言語，言必讖記，事過乃知。年始十歲，兄戍遼陽——一云安西——久無消息，母憂之甚，乃為設齋祈福。迴倏白母曰：「兄安極易知耳，奚用憂為？」因裹齋餘，出門徑去，際晚而歸，執其兄書云：「平善。」問其所由，默而無對，去來萬里。後時兄歸云：「此日與迴言，適從家來，因授餅餌共啗而返。」舉家驚喜。自爾人皆改觀，聲聞朝廷，中宗孝和皇帝詔見崇重。神龍二年，勅別度迴一人而已。自高宗末，天后時常詔入內道場，賜錦繡衣裳，宮人供事。先為兒時，於閿鄉興國寺累瓦石為佛塔。入內之後，其塔遂放光明，因建大閣而覆之。然其施作，皆不可輒量，出言則必有其故。勅賜號為法雲公，外人莫可得見。先是天后朝任酷吏行羅織事，官稍高隆者日別妻子。博陵崔玄暐位望俱極，其母廬氏賢，而憂之曰：「汝可一日迎萬迴，此僧寶誌之流，可以觀其舉止，知其禍福也。」乃召到家，母垂泣作禮，兼施中金匕筯一雙。迴忽下階擲其匕筯向堂屋上，掉臂而去。一家謂為不祥。經數日，令升屋取之，匕筯下得書一卷，觀之，乃讖緯書也，遽令焚之。數日，有司忽來其家，大索圖讖，不獲，得雪。時酷吏多令盜投蠱道物及偽造祕讖，用以誣人，還令誣告得實，屠戮籍沒其家者多。崔氏非聖人擲匕筯，何由知其偽圖讖也？中宗末，甞罵韋后為「反悖逆，斫爾頭去！」尋而誅死。太平公主為造宅於懷遠坊中，與主宅前後爾。又孝和親送金城公主出降吐蕃，幸始平，迴出迎駕。時崔日用、武平一、宋之問、沈佺期、岑羲、薛稷皆肅揖，鄭重問訊。諸公曰：「各欲求聖人一言以定吉凶。」撫沈背曰：「汝真才子。」沈不勝其喜曰：「聖人與我受記，諸子不可更爭。」又謂武曰：「與汝作名佛童，當無憂也。」目羲、稷有不善之色。岑以馬避之，目稷云：「此多是野狐，其言何足懼也？」乃顧云：「汝亦不免。」及羲、稷之誅，人益貴重。同時有僧伽，化迹不恒。中宗問迴曰：「此何人也？」迴曰。「觀音之化身也。」貞觀中，三藏奘師西歸，云天竺有石藏寺。奘入時見一空房，有胡床錫杖而已。因問此房大德，咸曰：「此僧緣闕法事，罰在東方，國名震旦，地號閿鄉，于茲萬迴矣。」奘歸求見迴，便設禮。問西域，宛如目矚。奘將訪其家，迴謂母曰：「有客至，請備蔬食。」俄而奘至。神異之迹，多此類也。正諫大夫明崇儼者，道術之士，謂人曰：「萬迴，神僧也。」玄宗潛龍時，與門人張暐等同謁。迴見帝甚至褻黷，將漆杖呼且逐之，同往者皆被驅出。曳帝入，反扃其戶，悉如常人，更無他，重撫背曰：「五十年天子自愛，已後即不知也。」張公等門外歷歷聞其言，故傾心翼戴焉。五十年後，蓋指祿山之禍也。睿宗在邸時，或遊行人間。迴於聚落街衢中高聲曰：「天子來。」或曰：「聖人來。」其處信宿閒，帝必經過徘徊也。惠莊太子，乃睿宗第二子也，天后曾抱示迴，曰：「此兒是西域大樹精，養之宜兄弟也。」安樂公主——玄宗之季妹——附會韋后，熱可炙手，道路懼焉。迴望車騎，連唾之曰：「腥，腥，不可近也。」不旋踵而禍滅及之。帝愈知迴非常人也，出二宮人，日夕侍奉之，特勅於集賢院圖形焉。暨迴垂卒，而大呼遣求本鄉河水，門人徒侶求覓無所。迴曰：「堂前即是河水，何不取耶？」眾於階下掘井，河水湧出，飲畢而終。迴宅坊中井皆醎苦，唯此井甘美。後有假託，或稱「小萬迴」，以惑市里，多至誅死焉。至于終後，右常侍徐彥伯為碑，立閿鄉玉㵎西路矣。

Śramaṇa Wanhui, whose secular surname was Zhang, was a native of Wenxiang in Guozhou. In his youth he appeared foolish and mute, and his parents pitied his dull disposition. When insulted by neighborhood children, he never displayed any attitude of contention. Yet his mouth would call itself 'Wanhui' (Ten Thousand Returns), hence this became his style name. Moreover, he took no notice of cold or heat; seeing the poor and humble he did not treat them with contempt, and seeing the rich and noble he did not show them deference; he ran wildly east and west, not resting all day long. Sometimes laughing, sometimes weeping, he had no fixed expression, and saliva constantly dribbled from the corners of his mouth, so everyone thought him strange. He had no love for luxury and was especially sparing of words; whenever he spoke, it was always a prophetic utterance, understood only after the event had passed. When he was just ten years of age, his elder brother was garrisoned at Liaoyang—another version says Anxi—and for a long time there was no news from him; his mother was exceedingly worried and arranged a vegetarian feast to pray for blessings. Wanhui suddenly said to his mother: 'Brother's safety is extremely easy to know; why worry?' He then wrapped up the leftovers of the feast, walked straight out the door, and returned toward evening, holding a letter from his brother that said, 'Safe and well.' When asked how this happened, he remained silent without answering, having traveled ten thousand li there and back. Later, when the brother returned, he said: 'On that day I spoke with Wanhui, who had just arrived from home; he then gave me cakes and pastries, which we ate together, and then he returned.' The whole household was astonished and delighted. From then on everyone viewed him differently, and his reputation reached the imperial court. Emperor Xiaohuadi (Zhongzong) summoned him to audience and honored him with profound respect. In the second year of the Shenlong era, an imperial decree ordered that Wanhui alone be ordained by special permission. From the late reign of Gaozong and throughout the Empress Dowager's era, he was frequently summoned to the inner chapel, bestowed embroidered brocade robes, and attended by palace women. Earlier in his childhood, he had piled up tiles and stones at Xingguo Temple in Wenxiang to make a Buddhist stūpa. After he entered the palace, this stūpa radiated light, and so a great pavilion was built to cover it. Yet his actions could never be easily calculated, and whenever he uttered words, there was always a reason. By imperial decree he was granted the title of Duke Fayun (Cloud of the Dharma), and outsiders were unable to see him. Prior to this, during the Empress Dowager's reign, when cruel officials were employed to weave false charges, officials of somewhat high rank parted from their wives and children each day. Cui Xuanwei of Boling had reached the zenith of both position and renown; his mother, Lady Lu, was wise and worried about him, saying: 'One day you should invite Wanhui; this monk is of the ilk of Baozhi, and by observing his actions one can know fortune and misfortune.' He then invited him to their house; the mother wept and bowed in homage, and presented a pair of gold chopsticks and spoon. Wanhui suddenly stepped down the stairs, hurled the chopsticks and spoon onto the roof of the hall, swung his arms, and walked away. The whole family considered this inauspicious. After several days, Cui ordered someone to climb onto the roof to retrieve them; beneath the chopsticks and spoon they found a scroll of writing, and examining it, found it to be a book of prophetic apocrypha; they hurriedly had it burned. Several days later, officials suddenly came to his home to conduct a thorough search for prophetic charts, but found nothing, so he was exonerated. At that time, cruel officials frequently ordered thieves to plant sorcery objects and forge secret prophecies to frame people, which would then be verified as true through false accusations, leading to the slaughter and confiscation of many households. Had the holy man not thrown the chopsticks and spoon, how could the Cui family have known of the forged prophetic chart? At the end of Zhongzong's reign, he once cursed Empress Wei, saying: 'You rebellious and contrary wretch, I will cut off your head!' Soon afterward she was executed. Princess Taiping built a residence for him in Huaiyuan Ward, just adjacent to her own residence. Furthermore, when Xiaohua (Emperor Zhongzong) personally saw off Princess Jincheng on her marriage to Tibet and visited Shiping, Wanhui came out to welcome the imperial carriage. At that time, Cui Riyong, Wu Pingyi, Song Zhiwen, Shen Quanqi, Cen Xi, and Xue Ji all bowed respectfully and solemnly inquired after him. The gentlemen said: 'Each of us wishes to seek a single word from the holy man to determine our fortune or misfortune.' Stroking Shen's back, he said: 'You are a true man of talent.' Shen was overjoyed beyond measure and said: 'The holy man has conferred a prediction upon me; you gentlemen need not dispute it any further.' He also said to Wu: 'I give you the name Fotong (Buddha Child); you shall have no worries.' He looked at Xi and Ji with an ill-favored expression. Cen avoided him on his horse and said to Ji: 'This man is mostly a wild fox; why should his words be feared?' Wanhui then looked back and said: 'You too will not escape.' When Xi and Ji were executed, people esteemed him even more. At the same time there was Saṅgha, whose transformative traces were unconstrained. Zhongzong asked Wanhui: 'Who is this man?' Wanhui said: 'He is an incarnation of Avalokiteśvara.' During the Zhenguan era, when Tripiṭaka Master Xuanzang returned from the west, he recounted that in India there was the Stone Treasury Temple (Aśmagarbha-vihāra). When Xuanzang entered it, he saw an empty room containing only a folding stool and a monk's staff. When he asked the venerable elders about this room, they all said: 'Because this monk was remiss in Dharma services, he was punished to be in the Eastern Land, in the country named Cīna, at the place called Wenxiang; he has made ten thousand returns up to now.' When Xuanzang returned, he sought out Wanhui and bowed in homage. When he questioned him about the Western Regions, Wanhui answered as though he were seeing them with his own eyes. When Xuanzang was about to visit his home, Wanhui said to his mother: 'A guest is coming; please prepare vegetarian food.' Soon Xuanzang arrived. His supernatural and miraculous traces were mostly of this sort. Grand Master of Remonstrance Ming Chongyan, a practitioner of Daoist arts, said to people: 'Wanhui is a divine monk.' When Xuanzong was still in hiding, he went with his retainers Zhang Wei and others to pay him a visit. Seeing the emperor, Wanhui treated him with extreme familiarity and insolence, took a lacquered stick, and shouting, drove them out; those who came along were all expelled. He dragged the emperor inside, latched the door behind them, and became entirely like a normal person, showing no strangeness at all; patting him repeatedly on the back, he said: 'Son of Heaven for fifty years, take care of yourself; after that, I know not.' Zhang and the others outside the door clearly heard his words, and so they devoted their hearts to supporting him. The fifty years later referred to the disaster of An Lushan. When Ruizong was still in his prince's mansion, he sometimes wandered incognito among the people. Wanhui would shout loudly in the villages and streets: 'The Son of Heaven is coming!' or 'The holy man is coming!' Within a couple of days of his doing so, the emperor would inevitably pass through that place and linger there. Prince Huizhuang was Ruizong's second son; the Empress Dowager once held him up to show Wanhui, who said: 'This boy is the spirit of a great tree from the Western Regions; raising him will be beneficial to his brothers.' Princess Anle—Xuanzong's youngest sister—allied herself with Empress Wei, her power hot enough to scorch the hand, striking fear into the roads. Wanhui looked toward her carriage and horses, spat repeatedly, and said: 'Rancid, rancid! One must not go near!' Before she could turn on her heel, disaster and ruin overtook her. The emperor knew even more clearly that Wanhui was no ordinary man; he sent out two palace women to wait upon him day and night, and specially decreed that his likeness be painted in the Jixian Academy. When Wanhui was near death, he cried out loudly, sending someone to seek water from the river in his home village, but his disciples and followers could find none. Wanhui said: 'Right in front of the hall is river water; why not draw it?' The crowd dug a well beneath the steps, and river water surged forth; after drinking it, he expired. The wells in the ward of Wanhui's residence were all salty and bitter; only this well was sweet and delicious. Later there were impostors, some calling themselves 'Little Wanhui' to deceive the marketplace, most of whom were executed. After his demise, Vice Director of the Right Xu Yanbo composed an inscription for his stele, which was erected on the western road of the Yujian River in Wenxiang.