宋高僧傳 23.13

23.13

釋鴻休，不知何許人也。神宇標挺，玄機斡運，居閩黃蘗山寺，叢萃毳客。示教之外，侃然怡樂。恒言：「宿債須償，償盡則何憂何懼？物我俱逍遙矣。」人皆不喻其旨。及廣明之際，巢寇充斥，休出寺外，脫納衣於松下磬石之上，言曰：「誓不污清淨之地。」而安詳引頸待刃，刃下無血，賊飜驚異，羅拜懺悔焉。門弟子景先闍維其屍，收舍利七顆，囊而寶之。有篤信者以菽粒如數易之，追之靡及，遂往筮焉，占之曰：「死生貴賤，罔分吾卦。在靡在之，失寧失矣。孰知其然也？」洎獲，寘之于塔，分之七粒，緘于瑠璃器中，瑩然光色。時僧清豁著文作頌紀德焉。

Śramaṇa Hongxiu: it is not known where he was born. His bearing was outstanding and noble, his subtle functioning nimble and free. He dwelt at the temple on Mount Huangbo in Min, where patch-robed monks gathered like clouds. Apart from teaching and guiding, he was candid and joyous. He constantly said: "Past debts must be repaid; once they are fully repaid, what worry or fear can there be? Both other and self will be completely free." No one understood his meaning. During the Guangming era [880–881 CE], when the rebels under Huang Chao swarmed everywhere, Xiu walked outside the temple, took off his patched robe, placed it upon a flat stone under a pine tree, and said: "I vow not to defile pure ground." Composed and calm, he stretched out his neck to await the blade. Beneath the blade there was no blood; the rebels were instead amazed and awestruck, lining up to bow and repent. His disciple Jingxian cremated (jhāpita) his corpse and gathered seven śarīra, pouching and treasuring them. A person of deep faith secretly swapped them for an equal number of beans; unable to catch him in pursuit, they went to divine the matter with yarrow stalks. The divination said: "Life and death, noble and base, my hexagrams make no distinction between them. Being where it is not, a loss is not truly a loss. Who can know how it is?" When they were subsequently recovered, they were placed in a stūpa, the seven grains distributed and sealed within a lapis lazuli vessel, luminous with radiant light. At that time, the monk Qinghuo composed a text and eulogy to record his virtues.