宋高僧傳 27.36

27.36

釋智廣，姓崔氏，不知何許人也。德瓶素完，道根惟固，化行洪雅，特顯奇蹤。凡百病者造之，則以片竹為杖，指其痛端，或一撲之，無不立愈。至有𤼣者則起，跛者則奔，其他小疾，何足言哉！乾寧初，王氏始定成都，雅郡守羅（亡名）罷任，携廣來謁。蜀主王氏素知奇術，唯呼為聖師焉！先是咸通中南蠻王及坦綽來圍，成都府幾陷。時天王現沙門形，高五丈許，眼射流光，蠻兵即退。故蜀人於城北寶曆寺立五丈僧相。後為牛尚書預毀次，兵火相仍，唯懼毘沙門之頹圮耳。王氏乃語廣曰：「師之異術，道德動人，乘此可料理天王否？往吳尚書行魯曾夢令『修吾像』，方事經營，除書忽到。請法力成之。」廣唯其命，徙就天王閣下，居一隅，小榻而已。翌日，病者填噎其門，日收所施二十萬至三十萬錢。又發言勸人出材木，浹旬皆運至堆積，令三綱掌管焉。初廣在雅郡本寺羯帝神堂內，居其半室，低門苫蓐，不許女人到門。唯有一竹箜子。每齋，受嚫二十文，必投箜內。滿則置之佛殿，聲鐘集眾，自他平等分之。常日俗家請齋，亦體廣意，止施二十文，淨飯菜豉汁，此外不許一物，嚫多不取，食畢而去，亦無辭告。其後益加神驗，或遇病者，一摑一叱皆起。或令燒紙緡，掇散飲食。或遇甚痛惱者，捩紙蘸水，貼之亦差。光化元年修天王閣，向畢，乃循江瀆池，呪食飼魚。經夜，其魚二尺已上萬億許，皆浮水面而殞。聊躡流水，救十千魚生忉利同也。

Śramaṇa Zhiguang, whose surname was Cui, was of unknown origin. The vessel of his virtue was inherently complete, and the roots of his Dao were firm; his teaching flourished in Hongya, and he manifested extraordinary traces. Whenever people suffering from any of the hundred illnesses came to him, he would take a piece of bamboo as a staff and point to the source of their pain, or give it a strike, and none failed to be immediately cured. It went so far that paralytics stood up and the lame ran; as for other minor ailments, how were they even worth mentioning! In the beginning of the Qianning era, when the Wang clan first pacified Chengdu, the prefect of Yajun, Luo (given name lost), was relieved of his post and brought Guang to pay respects [to the ruler]. The Shu ruler of the Wang clan had long known of his extraordinary arts, and called him only the "Holy Master"! Before this, during the Xiantong era, the Southern Barbarian King and Tanchuo came to besiege Chengdu, and the prefecture nearly fell. At that time, a Heavenly King manifested in the form of a śramaṇa, about fifty feet tall, his eyes shooting beams of light, and the barbarian army immediately retreated. Therefore, the people of Shu erected a fifty-foot monk statue at Baoli Temple north of the city. Later, when Minister Niu was preparing to demolish it, warfare and arson followed in succession, and there was only fear that [the statue of] Vaiśravaṇa would collapse. Wang then said to Guang: "Master, your extraordinary arts and moral virtue move people. Taking advantage of this, could you look after the Heavenly King? Formerly, Minister Wu Xinglu dreamed that he was ordered, 'Repair my image'; just as he was undertaking the management, his letter of dismissal suddenly arrived. I request your Dharma power to accomplish it." Guang simply followed his orders, moving to the base of the Heavenly King pavilion, where he lived in a corner with nothing more than a small couch. The next day, sick people clogged his gate, and each day he collected two to three hundred thousand cash in donations. He also spoke out urging people to provide timber, and within ten days it was all transported and piled up, which he had the three temple officers oversee. Earlier, when Guang was in the Jiadi Spirit Hall of his home temple in Yajun, he lived in half of the room, with a low gate and a rush mat, not permitting women to approach the gate. He had only a single bamboo basket. At every vegetarian feast, whenever he received an alms-gift of twenty coins, he would certainly throw them into the basket. When it was full, he placed it in the Buddha hall, sounded the bell to assemble the community, and distributed it equally among himself and others. On ordinary days, when lay families invited him to a feast, they also accommodated Guang's wishes, offering only twenty coins, pure rice, vegetables, and fermented-soybean broth; beyond this, not a single item was permitted. If the alms-gift was larger, he would not take it; when he finished eating he would depart without even offering words of farewell. Thereafter, his supernatural efficacy grew even greater: sometimes when he met a sick person, with a single slap and a shout they would immediately rise. Sometimes he had people burn paper money or offer and scatter food and drink. Or when he encountered someone in severe pain, he would twist paper, dip it in water, and stick it on them, and they would also recover. In the first year of Guanghua, the renovation of the Heavenly King pavilion was nearing completion; he then walked along the Jiangdu Pool, chanting incantations over food to feed the fish. After one night, fish measuring two feet or more, numbering hundreds of billions, all floated on the water's surface and expired. This was just like Jalavāhana saving the ten thousand fish, who were all reborn together in Trāyastriṃśa.