宋高僧傳 24.41

24.41

釋亡名，滎陽人也。居止洛中廣愛寺，以精習毘尼，慎防戒法，避其譏醜，罕有缺然。上元中東歸寧省，路及滎陽道，宿于逆旅。方解囊脫屨，欲漉水盥塵次，有僧至，頗見貌剛而率略，與律師並房安置。其後到僧謂主人曰：「貧道遠來，疲頓餒乏。主人有美酒酤滿罌，粱肉買半肩，物至酬直，無至遲也。」主人遽依請辦，僧飲啖之，都無孑遺。其律師呵之曰：「身披法服，對俗士恣行飲啖，不知慚赧？」其僧不答，初夜索水盥漱，端身趺坐，緩發梵音，誦《華嚴經》，初舉題目，次言「如是我聞」已下。其僧口角兩發金色光，聞者垂泣，見者歎嗟。律師亦生羨慕，竊自念言「彼酒肉僧，乃能誦斯大經！」比至三更，猶聞誦經，聲聲不絕，四帙欲滿，口中光明轉更增熾，遍於庭宇，透於窓隙，照明兩房。律師初不知是光，而云「彼客何不息燈，損主人油燼？」律師因起如廁，方窺見金色光明自僧之口兩角而出。誦至五帙已上，其光漸收，却入僧口。夜將五更，誦終六帙，僧乃却臥。須臾天明，律師涕泣而來，五體投地，求哀懺過「輕謗賢聖」之罪。律師喜遇異人，後加勤苦，卒成高名，莫知終地。

Shi Wangming was a native of Xingyang. He resided at Guang'ai Temple in Luoyang. Through rigorous study of the vinaya and cautious safeguarding of the monastic rules to avoid criticism and disgrace, he rarely had any flaw. During the Shangyuan era, he traveled east to visit his parents. Reaching the road in Xingyang, he lodged at an inn. Just as he was untying his sack, removing his shoes, and preparing to strain water to wash away the dust, a monk arrived whose appearance seemed rather rough and coarse, and who was lodged in the same room with the Vinaya master. The newly arrived monk said to the innkeeper, "This poor monk has come from afar, exhausted, starving, and weak. Innkeeper, fill an earthen jar with good wine and buy half a shoulder of meat and fine grain; when the food arrives, I will pay the cost, so do not be slow." The innkeeper immediately complied and prepared everything. The monk ate and drank with nothing left over. The Vinaya master scolded him, saying, "Clad in the Dharma robes, you indulge in food and drink before laypeople; do you feel no shame?" The monk did not reply. In the first watch of the night, he called for water to wash his mouth, straightened his body, sat cross-legged, and slowly chanting in the Sanskrit tone, recited the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, beginning with the title and proceeding to "Thus have I heard" and so forth. Golden light emanated from both corners of the monk's mouth; those who heard him wept, and those who saw him gasped in wonder. The Vinaya master also felt admiration, thinking to himself: "That wine-and-meat monk is actually capable of reciting such a great scripture!" By the third watch, he could still be heard reciting the sūtra without interruption. As four cases of scrolls were almost completed, the radiance from his mouth grew increasingly fierce, pervading the courtyard and penetrating through the window lattices, illuminating both rooms. At first the Vinaya master did not know it was light and thought, "Why does that traveler not put out the lamp instead of wasting the innkeeper's oil?" When the Vinaya master arose to go to the latrine, he then peeked and saw the golden light emerging from the two corners of the monk's mouth. When reciting past the fifth case, the light gradually gathered back and returned into the monk's mouth. As the fifth watch approached, finishing the recitation of the sixth case, the monk lay down to sleep. Shortly thereafter, at daybreak, the Vinaya master came weeping, cast his whole body to the ground, and begged with grief to repent for his sin of "disparaging and slandering a sage." The Vinaya master rejoiced at encountering an extraordinary person, afterwards exerted himself with even greater diligence, and ultimately achieved high renown; the place of his death is unknown.