宋高僧傳 18.34

18.34

釋道英，不知何許人也。戒德克全，名振天邑，住寺在布政坊。咸亨中見鬼物，寺主慧簡甞曰：「曉見二人行不踐地，入英院焉。」簡怪而問之，英曰：「向者秦莊襄王使使傳語『飢虛甚久，以師大慈，欲望排食并從者三百人，勿辭勞也。』吾以報云『後日曉具饌，可來專相候耳。』」簡聞之，言以酒助之。及期果來，侍從甚嚴，坐食倉黃，謂英曰：「弟子不食八十年矣。」英問其故，答曰：「吾生來不無故誤，其如滅東周，絕姬祀。或責以功德，吾平日未有佛法可以懺度，唯以赦宥、矜恤、惸獨塞之，終為未補。以福少罪多，受對未畢。今此一飡，更四十年方復得食。」因歷指座上云：「此是白起、王翦，為殺害多，罪報未終。」又云：「此陳軫，以虛詐故。」英曰：「王何不從人索食而甘虛腹，此奚可忍乎？」王曰：「慈心人少，餘人不相見。吾緣貴人，不可妄行祟禍，所以然也。」英指酒曰：「寺主簡公將獻。」深有所愧。垂去謂英曰：「甚感此行傷費饜飫，可知弟子有少物即送相償。城東通化門外尖塚——以其銳上而高大——是吾棲神之所。世人不知，妄云呂不韋墓耳。」英曰：「往遭赤眉開發，何有物來？」曰：「賊取不得。」英曰：「貧道非發丘中郎，是出家人，無用物所，必勿將來。」言訖，長揖而去。英感下趣如此，罔知終畢。

Shi Daoying's place of origin is unknown. Fully endowed with the virtues of moral discipline, his fame resounded in the imperial capital, and he resided in a temple in Buzheng Ward. During the Xianheng era, he saw ghosts. The abbot Huijian once said, "At dawn I saw two people whose feet did not tread on the ground enter Master Ying's courtyard." Jian found it strange and questioned him. Ying said, "Just now King Zhuangxiang of Qin sent an envoy to convey this message: 'I have suffered severe hunger and emptiness for a very long time. Relying on your great compassion, O Master, I wish for food to be prepared for me and my three hundred attendants; pray do not begrudge the labor.' I replied to him, saying: 'At dawn the day after tomorrow I will prepare the feast; you may come and wait especially for it.'" Hearing this, Jian offered to assist with wine. When the appointed day arrived, he indeed came, his retinue exceedingly solemn. Hurriedly sitting down to eat, he said to Ying, "Your disciple has not eaten for eighty years." Ying asked him the reason, and he replied, "Throughout my life I was not without deliberate errors and blunders; for example, I extinguished the Eastern Zhou and cut off the ancestral sacrifices of the Ji clan. Even if I were called to account through merit, in my ordinary days there was no Buddhadharma by which I could repent and be delivered; I only tried to compensate for it through amnesties, clemency, and relieving the orphaned and solitary, yet in the end it was insufficient to make amends. Because my blessings were few and my offenses numerous, my retribution is not yet finished. After this single meal, only after another forty years will I obtain food again." He then pointed in turn at those seated, saying, "These are Bai Qi and Wang Jian; because their killings were many, their retribution for sin is not yet ended." He also said, "This is Chen Zhen, [here] because of his falsehood and deceit." Ying said, "Why did you not beg for food from ordinary people instead of resigning yourself to an empty stomach? How could you endure this?" The king said, "People with compassionate hearts are few, and others do not see us. Because I was a noble person, I cannot act recklessly to cause baleful afflictions; that is why it is so." Ying pointed to the wine and said, "The abbot, the Venerable Jian, offers this." [The king] felt deeply ashamed. When about to leave, he said to Ying, "I am deeply grateful for this visit, which caused you expense and sated me; you should know that your disciple has a few things and will promptly send them in recompense. Outside Tonghua Gate east of the city, there is a pointed mound—named for its sharp top and lofty height—which is where my spirit rests. Worldly people do not know this and falsely call it the tomb of Lü Buwei." Ying said, "In the past it was dug open by the Red Eyebrows; what things could still remain?" He said, "The rebels could not obtain them." Ying said, "This impoverished monk is no grave-robbing commander; I am a renunciant with no use for material goods. You must not bring them." Having spoken, he made a deep bow and departed. Such was Ying's resonance with the lower destinies; his end is not known.