弘贊法華傳 8.18

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釋僧徹。未詳何人。住絳州南孤山陷泉寺。曾行遇癩者。徹引至山中。為𮢶穴給食。令誦法華。癩者。素不識字。加又頑鄙。句句授之。終不辭倦。誦經向半。夢有教者。自後稍聰。得五六卷。瘡漸覺愈。一部既了。鬢眉平復。膚色如常。故經云。病之良藥。斯誠驗矣。

Śramaṇa Sengche's origins are unknown. He lived at Xianquan Monastery on Mount Nangu in Jiangzhou. Once while traveling, he encountered a leper. Che led him into the mountains, dug a cave for him, supplied him with food, and had him recite the Lotus Sūtra. The leper was illiterate and, moreover, obstinate and crude, yet Che taught him sentence by sentence without ever tiring. When he had recited nearly half the scripture, he dreamed of someone instructing him, and thereafter he grew somewhat sharper, mastering five or six fascicles, while his sores gradually showed signs of healing. Once the entire work was completed, his eyebrows and hair were fully restored and his skin color returned to normal. Thus the scripture says that it is an "excellent medicine for illnesses"—this is truly verified.