宋高僧傳 21.42

21.42

釋契此者，不詳氏族，或云四明人也。形裁腲脮，蹙頞皤腹，言語無恒，寢臥隨處。常以杖荷布囊入鄽肆，見物則乞，至于醯醬魚𦵔，纔接入口，分少許入囊，號為長汀子布袋師也。曾於雪中臥，而身上無雪，人以此奇之。有偈云：「彌勒真彌勒，時人皆不識。」等句，人言慈氏垂迹也。又於大橋上立，或問：「和尚在此何為？」曰：「我在此覓人。」常就人乞啜，其店則物售。袋囊中皆百一——供身具也。示人吉凶，必現相表兆。亢陽，即曳高齒木屐，市橋上竪膝而眠；水潦，則係濕草屨。人以此驗知。以天復中終于奉川，鄉邑共埋之。後有他州見此公，亦荷布袋行。江浙之間多圖畫其像焉。

Shi Qici's family and clan are unknown; some say he was a man of Siming. His bodily form was plump and flabby, with a furrowed brow and a protruding belly. His speech was erratic, and he slept wherever he happened to be. He regularly carried a cloth bag on a staff and entered markets and shops; seeing something, he would beg for it, down to vinegar, sauces, fish, and salted fish. The moment it touched his mouth, he would put a little into his bag, and he was known as the "Cloth Bag Master of Changtingzi." He once lay in the snow, yet there was no snow upon his body; people marveled at him for this. He had a verse that ran, "Maitreya, true Maitreya, / contemporary people do not recognize him," among other lines; people said he was a manifestation trace of the Compassionate One. He also stood upon a large bridge, and someone asked, "What are you doing here, Master?" He replied, "I am searching for someone here." Whenever he begged for food and drink from someone, that shop's goods would sell out. Inside his cloth bag were always the "hundred and one" implements that sustain the body. When indicating good or ill fortune to people, he unfailingly displayed omens by his appearances: during droughts, he would drag high-toothed wooden clogs and sleep with raised knees on a market bridge; when it flooded, he would tie on wet straw sandals. People came to know through this verification. In the Tianfu era, he died in Fengchuan, and the villagers buried him together. Later, in another prefecture, this gentleman was seen again, still walking and carrying his cloth bag. Between Jiangnan and Zhejiang, many painted his portrait.