神僧傳 5.20

5.20

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.