宋高僧傳 22.11

22.11

釋行遵，福州閩王王氏之仲子。後唐莊宗即位，入洛進方物，因留京邸。同光末，會明宗將入，兵亂相仍，乃自剪飾，變服為僧，竄身巴蜀。逮晉開運中狀貌若七十餘，然壯力不衰。或詢其年臘，則必杜默。於閬中寓光國禪院，院徒以律法住持，人不之知遵之能否。有李氏子家命齋，飲噉之次，欻起出門呌噪，若有所責。謂李曰：「今夜有火，自東南至于西北街，隣居咸令備之。」是夕果然煨燼無遺。眾聚問其故，曰：「昨一婦女衣紅秉炬而過，老僧恨追不及耳。」又於趙法曹家，指桃樹下云：「有如許錢。」不言其數，趙乃召人發之，畚鍤方興，適遇客至，為家僮所取。喧喧之際，盡化為青泥，人各爭得百餘，後圬墁之。門壁壞，往往而有焉。遵或經人塚墓，知其家吉凶。至於風角鳥獸，聞見之間，預言災福，後必契合，故州閭遠近，咸以預言用為口實。終于晉安玉山，緇徒為其茶毘焉。

Śramaṇa Xingzun was the second son of the Wang family, the Princes of Min in Fuzhou. When Emperor Zhuangzong of the Later Tang ascended the throne, Xingzun entered Luoyang to present local products and consequently remained at the capital residence. At the end of the Tongguang era, when Emperor Mingzong was about to enter and military upheavals ensued continuously, he cut his hair, changed his garments to become a monk, and fled to Ba-Shu. By the Kaiyun era of the Later Jin, his appearance was like that of a man in his seventies, yet his physical strength had not waned. When someone asked about his age and monastic years, he would remain strictly silent. In Langzhong he lodged at the Guangguo Chan Cloister; the cloister's assembly maintained the monastery through vinaya rules, and no one knew whether Zun possessed ability or not. A son of the Li family invited him for a vegetarian meal; while eating and drinking, he suddenly rose, went out the door, and shouted loudly as if rebuking something. He said to Li, "Tonight there will be a fire, spreading from the southeast to the northwest street; let all neighbours prepare for it." That evening it indeed burned everything to ashes. The crowd gathered and asked the reason; he said, "Yesterday a woman wearing red and holding a torch passed by; this old monk only regrets not catching up with her." Furthermore, at the house of Legal Officer Zhao, he pointed beneath a peach tree and said, "There is this much coin." He did not specify the amount. Zhao then summoned people to dig it up; just as the baskets and spades were set in motion, a guest arrived, and the coins were snatched by the house servants. In the midst of the clamour, the coins all turned into blue mud; people each scrambled and got a hundred or so, and later plastered them on walls. When the gates and walls crumbled, they were frequently found there. When Zun passed by people's tombs, he knew the auspiciousness or misfortune of their families. Even regarding wind-reading and the calls of birds and beasts, from what he heard and saw he predicted disasters and blessings, which were invariably verified afterwards; thus near and far throughout the prefecture and villages, all took his prophecies as popular sayings. He passed away at Mount Yu in Jin'an, and the monastic assembly cremated him.