大明高僧傳 2.29

2.29

釋普喜號吉祥。山東人也。身偉面黑而瘠脫類梵僧。早歲懇父母出家。父母責以無後為大。因娶育二子。已而始得為沙門。精究慈恩相宗研習唯識師地因明等論。元至元二十五年薛禪皇帝剏立江淮御講之所。普照居其一也。詔師主之。升座外日誦華嚴大經。以十卷為常課。而素與雲南端無念相善。端為唯識之巨魁。天下無出其右。每與師論辯理趣。或有少失師以正言救之。端亦為誠服而稱之。入滅荼毘舍利甚夥。其門人留其靈骨。貯以髹函奉藏二十餘年。始建塔于丹徒雩山。逮入塔之際啟視之。但見舍利霑綴函袱若蜂屯蟻聚。觸之熠熠然也。鎮江之民多有圖像。隨處祠之。稱為吉祥佛云。

Shi Puxi had the style name Jixiang. He was a native of Shandong. He was tall in stature, with a dark complexion, and was so lean and emaciated as to resemble an Indian monk. In his early years, he earnestly pleaded with his parents to allow him to leave household life. His parents reproached him, saying that having no descendants was the greatest [filial failure]. Consequently, he married and raised two sons, after which he was finally able to become a śramaṇa. He thoroughly investigated the Ci'en Characteristics school, studying treatises such as the Vijñaptimātra, Yogācārabhūmi, and Hetuvidyā. In the twenty-fifth year of the Zhiyuan reign period of the Yuan, Emperor Setsen (Kublai) founded imperial lecture seats in Jiang-Huai. Puzhao was one of them. An edict ordered the master to preside over it. Beyond ascending the seat, he daily chanted the Great Avataṃsaka Sūtra, taking ten fascicles as his daily practice. He was consistently on good terms with Duan Wunian of Yunnan. Duan was a giant leader of Vijñaptimātra; none in the world surpassed him. Whenever he debated principles with the master, if Duan made a slight slip, the master corrected him with upright words; Duan also genuinely submitted and praised him. When he entered extinction and underwent jhāpita, the relics were very abundant. His disciples kept his holy bones and stored them in a lacquered box, enshrining them for more than twenty years before first constructing a stupa at Mount Yu in Dantu. When it was time to place them into the stupa, they opened it to inspect them, and saw only relics clinging to the box and wrapping cloth like swarming bees and gathering ants; when touched, they sparkled brilliantly. Many among the people of Zhenjiang had portraits of him, worshipping him everywhere and calling him 'Jixiang Buddha'.