神僧傳 2.12

2.12

釋法曠。姓皐氏。下邳人。寓居吳興早失二親。事後母以孝聞。及母亡行喪盡禮。服闋出家事沙門竺曇印為師。印嘗疾病危篤。曠乃七日七夜祈誠禮懺。至第七日忽見光明照印房戶。印如覺有人以手掁（除更切）之。所苦遂愈。後辭師遠遊。廣尋經要。還止於潛青山石室。晉簡文皇帝遣堂邑太守曲安。遠詔問起居。并諮以妖星。請曠為力。曠乃與弟子齋懺。有頃災滅。東土百姓多遇疫疾。祈之即愈。有見鬼者言曠之行住常有鬼神數十衛其前後。時人咸歎異之。元興元年卒。春秋七十有六僧臘五十二。

Shi Fakuang's surname was Gao. He was a native of Xiapi. Residing in Wuxing, he lost both parents at an early age. He served his stepmother and was renowned for his filial piety. When his stepmother died, he performed the mourning rites fully according to proper ritual. After the mourning period ended, he renounced household life and served the śramaṇa Zhu Tanyin as his teacher. Yin once fell gravely ill, and Kuang prayed with sincerity and practiced repentance day and night for seven days. On the seventh day, a radiant light was suddenly seen illuminating the doors of Yin's room. Yin felt as if someone were striking him with a hand, and his suffering was thereupon cured. Later, Kuang took leave of his teacher to travel far and wide, broadly seeking the essentials of the sūtras. Returning, he stayed in a stone cave on Mount Qingshan in Yuqian. Emperor Jianwen of the Jin dynasty dispatched Qu An, the Grand Administrator of Tangyi, to convey an imperial edict from afar inquiring after his health, and also to consult him about an inauspicious star, requesting Kuang to apply his spiritual effort. Kuang thereupon undertook fasting and repentance together with his disciples, and after a short time the calamity was extinguished. Many common people of the eastern region contracted pestilence, and whenever they prayed to him, they were immediately cured. One who could see ghosts said that wherever Kuang went or stayed, there were constantly several tens of ghosts and spirits guarding him before and behind. People of the time all marveled at this. In the first year of Yuanxing, he died at the age of seventy-six, with fifty-two monastic years.