[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [神僧傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064) › 9.11 # 神僧傳 9.11 神僧傳 9.11 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [9.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.9.11) 釋懷濬者。不知何許人也。憨而且狂。乃逆知未來之事。其應如神。乾寧中無何至巴東。且能草書筆法天然。或於寺觀店肆壁書佛經道法。以至歌詩鄙俚之詞。靡不集其筆端矣。與之語阿唯而已。里人以神聖待之。刺史于公患其惑眾。繫獄詰之。乃以詩通狀。辭意在閩川之西東。然章句靡麗。州將異而釋之。又詳其旨疑在海中。疑為杯渡之流。行旅經過必維舟而謁。辨其上下峽之吉凶貿易經求物之利鈍。客子懇祈。惟書三五行終不明言。事後多驗。時荊南大校周崇賓謁之。書遺曰。付皇都勘爾。後入貢因王師南討。遂縶南府終就戮也。押牙孫道能謁之。書字付竹林寺。其年物故。營葬於古竹林寺基也。皇甫鉉知州。乃畫一人荷校一女子在傍。尋為娶民家女遭訟錮身入府矣。有穆昭嗣者。波斯種也。幼好藥術。隨父謁之。乃畫道士乘雲提一匏壺。書云。指揮使高某牒衙。推穆生後以醫術有效。南平王高從誨令其去道從儒。簡攝府衙。推屬王師伐荊州。濬乃為詩上南平王曰。馬頭漸入揚州路。親眷應須洗眼看。是年高氏輸誠於淮海遂解重圍。其他異迹多此類也。嘗一日題庭前芭蕉葉云。今日還債業。州縣無更勘窮往來多見殊不介意。忽為人所害身首異處。刺史為其茶毘焉。 > Śramaṇa Huaijun was of unknown origin. He was foolish and eccentric, yet he had foreknowledge of future events, his predictions proving true as if by divine power. During the Qianning era, for no apparent reason, he arrived in Badong. He was skilled in cursive calligraphy, his brushwork being natural and spontaneous. Sometimes on the walls of monasteries, Daoist abbeys, inns, and shops, he would write Buddhist scriptures, Daoist teachings, and even song lyrics and vulgar vernacular verses; nothing failed to flow from the tip of his brush. When someone spoke to him, he would only answer with 'a' and 'wei'. The local people treated him as a divine sage. Prefect Yu was distressed by his deluding the masses, threw him into prison, and interrogated him. \[Huaijun\] then submitted an official petition in the form of a poem. The meaning of its lines pointed to the west and east of the Min River, yet the phrasing was ornate and beautiful. The prefect marveled at it and released him. When he further examined its meaning, he suspected \[the monk\] was in the midst of the sea, and wondered whether he belonged to the lineage of Master Beidu. When travelers passed by, they would always moor their boats and pay him a visit, seeking to ascertain the auspiciousness or misfortune of traveling through the upper and lower Gorges, or the profit and loss in trade and commercial goods. When travelers earnestly prayed, he would merely write three to five lines, never speaking clearly, yet after the events, they were mostly verified. At that time, the senior officer of Jingnan, Zhou Chongbin, visited him. \[Huaijun\] wrote and left him \[the words\]: 'Handed over to the imperial capital for your interrogation.' Later, when entering to present tribute, due to the imperial army's southern expedition, \[Zhou\] was arrested by the Southern Office and ultimately executed. The military attendant Sun Daoneng visited him, and he wrote characters giving them to 'Zhulin Monastery'. That year, \[Sun\] passed away, and his burial was arranged at the old foundation of Zhulin Monastery. When Huangfu Xuan was prefect, \[Huaijun\] drew a person bearing a cangue with a woman beside him; soon after, \[Huangfu\] married a girl from a common family, suffered a lawsuit, and was imprisoned and brought to the prefecture. There was a certain Mu Zhaosi, who was of Persian descent. In his youth, he was fond of medical arts; accompanying his father, he went to visit him. \[Huaijun\] drew a Daoist riding the clouds holding a calabash gourd, and wrote: 'Commander Gao sends an official communication to the prefecture to promote Student Mu.' Later, because Mu's medical skills were effective, King Gaoconghui of Nanping ordered him to abandon Daoism and pursue Confucianism, temporarily appointing him to oversee the prefectural administration. When it happened that the imperial army attacked Jingzhou, Jun composed a poem and presented it to the King of Nanping, saying: / 'The horse's head gradually enters the road to Yangzhou; / Your relatives ought to wash their eyes and watch!' / That year, the Gao clan pledged allegiance to Huaihai, and the heavy siege was lifted. Other extraordinary traces of his were mostly of this kind. One day, he wrote on a plantain leaf in the courtyard: 'Today I repay my debt of karma; the prefecture and county need not investigate further.' Many passersby saw it but paid it no heed. Suddenly he was murdered by someone, his head and body severed in different places. The prefect cremated him. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 9.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.9.10) - [Next: 9.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.9.12) - [Up: 9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.9) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064~en-mt.9.11) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.9.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2064.9.11) · Pramāṇa