宋高僧傳 23.11

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釋定蘭，姓楊氏，成都人也。本闤闠間兇惡屠沽類，天與厥性，悔往前非，誓預六和，化行三蜀。當爾時也，咸歸信焉。造伽藍一，號聖壽歟。其緣未發，乃藏於傭保中耳。而父母早亡，無資可以追往。每遇諱辰，蘭悲哭咽絕，輒裸露入青城山，縱蚊蚋䗈蠅唼咋膚體，且云「捨內財也，用答劬勞。」蜀中有黑白蟆，形如粟，𠯗人口及肉，而少見者。次則刺血寫經，後則煉臂，至于拔耳剜目、餧飼鷙鳥猛獸。既而行步，非扶導而觸物顛躓。後有異人，掌擎物若珠顆然，內空眥中，斯須瞻矚如故。冥告曰：「南天王還師眼珠矣。」遠近驚駭。常謂人曰：「吾聞《善戒經》中名為無上施——吾願勤行，速要上果矣。」大中三年，宣宗詔入內供養，仰其感應之故，以優禮奉之。弟子有緣，恒執事左右。六年二月中，又願焚然肩膊。帝累勸勉，年耆且務久長修煉。蘭不奉詔，遂焚焉而絕。有緣表請易名建塔，勅諡覺性也，塔號悟真也。蜀都止呼定蘭塔院，于今香火不絕云。

Śramaṇa Dinglan, surnamed Yang, was a native of Chengdu. Originally from the rough class of marketplace butchers and wine-merchants, his nature was endowed by Heaven with repentance for past misdeeds; he vowed to join the Six Harmonies (the monastic saṅgha) and extend his transformation across the Three Shu regions. At that time, everyone placed their trust in him. He built a monastery named Shengshou. Before his monastic conditions had ripened, he concealed himself among hired servants. His parents died early, leaving him without means to perform posthumous memorial rites for them. Whenever their death anniversaries arrived, Lan would weep and choke with grief until he lost his breath, and would then strip naked and enter Mount Qingcheng, letting mosquitoes, gnats, gadflies, and blowflies bite and feed upon his flesh, saying: "This is the relinquishing of internal wealth to repay their laborious toil." In Shu there are black-and-white toads, tiny as millet grains, which bite people's mouths and flesh, yet are rarely seen. Next, he pricked his blood to copy sūtras, and later burned his arms, to the extent of plucking out his ears, gouging out his eyes, and feeding birds of prey and wild beasts. Thereafter, when walking, if he was not supported and guided, he would bump into things and stumble. Later, a strange man appeared holding an object like a pearl in his palm and placed it inside the empty eye sockets; in an instant, his sight was restored as before. A voice from the unseen realm announced: "The Southern Heavenly King has returned the master's eyeballs." Those near and far were astonished and awestruck. He often said to people: "I have heard that in the *Bodhisattva-bhūmi Sūtra* (*Shan jie jing*) this is called the supreme giving—I vow to practice it diligently so as to attain the supreme fruit swiftly." In the third year of the Dazhong era [849 CE], Emperor Xuanzong summoned him to the palace to receive offerings; revering his supernatural resonance, the Emperor treated him with exceptional courtesy. His disciple Youyuan constantly attended him on his left and right. In the second month of the sixth year [852 CE], he again vowed to burn his shoulders. The Emperor repeatedly urged him against it, noting that he was advanced in years and should focus on long-term cultivation. Lan did not obey the imperial command, and thereupon burned them and expired. Youyuan memorialized the throne requesting a change of name and the erection of a stūpa; an imperial decree bestowed the posthumous title "Juexing" (Enlightened Nature) and named the stūpa "Wuzhen" (Realizing the Truth). In the capital of Shu, it is simply called the Dinglan Stūpa Cloister, where the incense and lamps have continued unbroken down to the present day.