[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [宋高僧傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061) › 22.20 # 宋高僧傳 22.20 宋高僧傳 22.20 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [22.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061.22.20) 釋師簡，姓趙氏，丹丘人也。弗循戒範，放肆恬然，擁破納衣，多誦詞偈，好懸記杭、越間災福。初無信者，驗猶合符。於一行、景淳山經地理別得徑門，常言：昔泰山道辯相塜得術，餘無取焉。喜為人遷山相塚，吉凶如其言。居無定所，多遊族姓家，言腹飢，便求雞肉餐。此外得美酒，啜數杯而去。初無言謝，然長於勒書——大字題牌、寺觀門額，書成相之，吉凶隨言，久近驗之。始居杭西湖旁院，無疾而終。後有行客自長沙市中見，携手話舊，寄言與崇壽院主：「汝先負錢若干，今放汝。我眠床芻薦下層，有紙裹肉脯屑，必應腐敗，為棄之。」院僧依言，果然見之，因寫貌供養。簡曾言「尖頭屋已後火化去。」及州南塔戊午歲被天火爇之，應言無爽矣。 > Shi Shijian's surname was Zhao; he was a native of Danqiu. He did not abide by the vinaya precepts and standards, being unrestrained and untroubled. Wearing a tattered patch-robe, he mostly chanted verse and gāthās, and was fond of prophesying fortunes and misfortunes between Hangzhou and Yuezhou. At first no one believed him, but his predictions matched reality like tallies fitting together. In the mountain-reading and geomancy methods of Yixing and Jingchun, he had attained a distinct path, and often said: 'In the past, Daobian of Mount Tai attained the art of tomb geomancy; aside from that, there is nothing worth adopting.' He enjoyed relocating graves and reading tomb sites for people, and the auspiciousness or misfortune turned out exactly as he said. He had no fixed dwelling, mostly wandering among prominent families; saying that his belly was hungry, he would immediately ask for chicken meat to eat. Beyond this, if he obtained fine wine, he would sip several cups and depart. From the start he gave no words of thanks, yet he excelled at calligraphy—inscribing placards with large characters and signboards for temple and abbey gates. Once the calligraphy was complete, he would read their fortune, and good or bad fortune followed his words, being verified sooner or later. At first he dwelt in a cloister beside the West Lake in Hangzhou, and died without illness. Later, a traveler saw him in the marketplace of Changsha; holding hands and talking over old times, \[Shijian\] sent a message to the master of Chongshou Cloister: 'You previously owed me a certain amount of cash; I now release you from it. In the lower layer of the straw matting of my sleeping couch, there are dried meat scraps wrapped in paper, which must have rotted by now; discard them for me.' The cloister monks followed his words and indeed found them, whereupon they painted his portrait and made offerings to it. Jian had once said, 'The pointed-roof building will later be transformed by fire.' When the southern pagoda of the prefecture was burned by celestial fire in the wuwu year, it matched his words without error. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 22.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061.22.19) - [Next: 22.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061.22.21) - [Up: 22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061.22) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061~en-mt.22.20) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061.22.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2061.22.20) · Pramāṇa