宋高僧傳 25.21

25.21

釋法照，不知何許人也。立行多輕率，遊方不恒。長慶元年，入逆旅避雨，逡巡轉甚泥淖，過中時乞食不得。乃咄遣童子買彘肉，煮夾胡餅數枚，麁食略盡，且無恥愧，旁若無人。客皆詬罵，少年有欲敺者。照殊不答。至夜，念《金剛經》，本無脂燭，一室盡明，異香充滿。凡二十一客皆來禮拜謝過，各施衣物。照踞坐若無所覩。後不知終所。

Śramaṇa Fazhao's origin is unknown. In conduct he was mostly rash and reckless, and his wandering was without constancy. In the first year of the Changqing era, he entered an inn to shelter from the rain. In a short while, the rain worsened and the ground grew muddy; noon passed, and he had failed to obtain food by begging. Thereupon he scolded a boy and sent him to buy pork, boiled it, and stuffed it into several pieces of sesame flatbread. He ate up the coarse food almost entirely, with neither shame nor remorse, behaving as if no one else were present. The guests all cursed and reviled him, and among the youths were some who wished to beat him. Fazhao did not answer at all. When night came, he recited the Diamond Sūtra. Though there were originally neither grease lamps nor candles, the whole room became brilliantly lit, filled with an extraordinary fragrance. All twenty-one guests came to bow, apologize, and offer clothing and goods. Fazhao sat cross-legged as though he saw nothing. His end was not known afterward.