弘贊法華傳 6.10

6.10

釋普明。姓張。臨渭人。少出家。稟性清純。視不過步。蔬食布衣。以懺誦為業。三衣繩床。未甞遠體。若欲消息。坐而假寐。誦法華維摩二經。及諷誦之時。有別衣別座。未甞穢雜。每至勸發品。輒見普賢乘象。立在其前。誦維摩經。亦聞空中唱樂。又善神呪。所救皆愈。有鄉人王道真。妻病。請明來呪。明入門。婦便悶絕。俄見一物如狸。長數尺許。從狗竇出。因此而愈。明甞行水旁祠。巫覡自云。神見之。皆奔走。後遇疾。正坐燒香。不覺便逝。即宋孝建中卒。春秋八十五矣。

Shi Puming had the surname Zhang and was a native of Linwei. He went forth from the household in his youth; by nature pure and genuine, his gaze never exceeded his steps. Eating vegetarian food and wearing coarse cloth, he made repentance and recitation his endeavor. His three robes and rope-bed were never far from his body. If he wished to rest, he would sit and take a nap. He recited the two sūtras, the Lotus and the Vimalakīrti; when chanting, he had special robes and a special seat, never allowing any impurity. Whenever he reached the Chapter on Encouragement [of Samantabhadra], he would regularly see Samantabhadra riding an elephant, standing before him. Reciting the Vimalakīrti Sūtra, he would also hear singing and music in the sky. He was also skilled in divine dhāraṇīs; whomever he treated was healed. There was a fellow townsman named Wang Daozhen whose wife was ill; he invited Ming to come and chant mantras. When Ming entered the gate, the wife immediately fainted. Soon, a creature resembling a wildcat, several feet long, was seen emerging from the doghole; because of this, she recovered. Ming once walked by a shrine beside the water, and the shamans said of themselves that when the spirits saw him, they all fled. Later, falling ill, he sat upright and burned incense, and passed away without anyone noticing. He died during the Xiaojian era of the Song at the age of eighty-five.