神僧傳 5.20

5.20

釋慧偘。曲阿人也。住蔣州大歸善寺。靈通幽顯世莫識之。而翹敬尊像事同真佛。每見立像不敢輒坐。勸人造像唯作坐者。後往嶺南修禪法。大有悟解。住栖霞時嘗往揚都謁偲法師。偲異禮接之。將還山偲請現神力。偘即從窓中出臂解齊熙寺佛殿上額。因語偲云。世人無遠識見多驚異。故吾所不為耳。大業元年終於大歸善寺。初偘終日以三衣還眾僧。吾今死去。徒眾好住。便還房內。大眾驚起追之。乃見房中白骨一具跏坐床上。撼之鏘然不散。

Shi Huikan was a native of Qu'e. He resided at the Daguan Shan Monastery in Jiangzhou. His spiritual penetrations reached into the unseen and the visible, yet the world did not recognize him. He showed profound reverence to revered images, treating them as if they were the true Buddha. Whenever he saw a standing image, he dared not sit. He exhorted people to make only seated images when fashioning statues. Later, he went to Lingnan to cultivate dhyāna practices and achieved great awakening. While residing at Qixia, he once went to Yangzhou to visit Dharma Master Cai. Cai received him with extraordinary courtesy. When he was about to return to the mountain, Cai requested him to manifest divine powers. Kan thereupon reached his arm out through the window and took down the lintel placard from the Buddha hall of Qixi Monastery. He then said to Cai, "Worldly people lack farsighted vision and are easily startled by what they see; that is why I do not usually do such things." In the first year of the Daye era, he passed away at Daguan Shan Monastery. At the beginning of the day of his passing, he returned the three robes to the sangha, saying, "I will die today. May the disciples abide in peace." He then returned to his room. The great assembly arose in alarm and pursued him, only to find in his room a set of white bones sitting cross-legged upon the bed; when shaken, they clattered without falling apart.