神僧傳 7.38

7.38

釋無相。新羅國人也。是彼土王第三子。玄宗召見隸於禪定寺號無相。遂入深溪谷巖下坐禪。有黑犢二交角盤礴於座下。近身甚急。毛手入其袖。其冷如氷。捫摸至腹。相殊不傾動。每入定多是五日為度。忽雪深有二猛獸來。相自洗拭裸臥其前。願以身施其食。二獸從頭至足嗅匝而去。往往夜間坐床下搦虎鬚毛。既而山居稍久衣破髮長。獵者疑是異獸將射之復止。復構精舍於亂墓間。成都縣令楊翌。疑其幻惑。乃追至。命徒二十餘人曳之。徒近相身一皆戰慄心神俱失。頃之大風卒起。沙石飛颺直入廳事。飄簾捲幕。楊翌叩頭拜伏喘不敢語。懺畢風止。奉送舊所。相至成都也。忽有一力士稱捨力伐柴供僧厨用。相之弟本國新為王矣。懼其却迴其國危殆。將遣刺客來屠之。相已冥知矣。忽曰。供柴賢者暫來謂之曰。今夜有客曰灼然。又曰。莫傷佛子。至夜薪者持刀挾席。坐禪座之側。逡巡覺壁上似有物下。遂躍起揮刀。巨胡身首分於地矣。後門素有巨坑。乃曳去瘞之。復以土拌滅其跡而去。質明相令召伐柴者謝之。已不見矣。甞指其浮圖前柏曰。此樹與塔齊。塔當毀矣。至會昌廢毀正與塔齊。又言。寺前二小池。左羹右飯。齋施時少則令淘浚之。果來供設。其神異多此類也。以至德元年卒。壽七十七。

Śramaṇa Wuxiang was a native of the kingdom of Silla. He was the third son of the king of that land. Xuanzong granted him an audience and registered him at the Chanding Monastery, bestowing the name Wuxiang. He then entered deep stream valleys to sit in dhyāna beneath the crags. Two black calves crossed horns and romped beneath his seat, pressing very close to his body; a hairy hand entered his sleeve, cold as ice, groping all the way to his belly, but Wuxiang remained completely unmoved. Each time he entered samādhi, it was usually for a span of five days. Suddenly, amid deep snow, two fierce beasts arrived; Wuxiang washed and wiped himself, lay naked before them, and vowed to offer his body as their food; the two beasts sniffed him all over from head to foot and left. Often at night he sat under his bench and pulled the whiskers and hairs of tigers. After living in the mountains for some time, his robes were tattered and his hair long, so hunters suspected he was a strange beast and were about to shoot him, but stopped. He then built a vihāra among scattered graves. Yang Yi, the magistrate of Chengdu County, suspected him of delusion and deceit, and sent for him, ordering more than twenty men to drag him away. When the men drew near Wuxiang's person, they all trembled, their wits and spirits utterly lost. Soon after, a great wind suddenly arose, blowing sand and stones straight into the hall, fluttering the blinds and rolling up the curtains. Yang Yi knocked his head, bowed, lay prostrate, and gasped, not daring to speak. When his repentance was done, the wind ceased, and he escorted the master back to his former place. When Wuxiang arrived in Chengdu, there was suddenly a strongman who offered to donate his strength to chop firewood for the monks' kitchen. Wuxiang's younger brother, newly made king in their native land, feared that Wuxiang's return would endanger his throne, and was about to dispatch assassins to slaughter him. Wuxiang already knew this in secret. He suddenly said, "Let the virtuous firewood supplier come for a moment," and told him, "Tonight there will be a guest." The man said, "Certainly." Wuxiang added, "Do not harm the disciple of the Buddha." When night came, the woodcutter held a knife, carried a mat under his arm, and sat beside the dhyāna seat. After a short while, he sensed something descending from the wall; he sprang up, brandished his knife, and the head and body of a giant barbarian were severed on the ground. Behind the gate was an existing large pit; he dragged the body away, buried it, smoothed over the ground with earth to eliminate all traces, and departed. At daybreak, Wuxiang sent for the woodcutter to thank him, but he was already nowhere to be seen. Wuxiang once pointed to the cypress in front of the stupa and said, "When this tree equals the stupa in height, the stupa will be destroyed." When the Huichang persecution and destruction came, the tree was exactly the height of the stupa. He also said, "Before the monastery are two small ponds, soup on the left and rice on the right; when the meals offered by donors are few, dredge and clear them." And indeed, offerings would come. His divine wonders were mostly of this kind. He died in the first year of the Zhide era, at the age of seventy-seven.