弘贊法華傳 8.34

8.34

比丘尼。失其名。住蘇州混山縣界。少小入道。常誦法華經。每日兩遍。二十餘載。比尼容貌妍詳。見者思戀。至永昌元年。縣錄事姓朱。遂起惡心。橫加非望。尼雅志貞確。意不從之。朱乃惱亂寺眾。破損常住。尼等不知何計得免斯苦。持經尼云。此法華經。何無靈驗。即著淨衣。入佛殿。燒香發願。其後。錄事假託別由。而來寄宿。心懷異意。方欲向尼房去。少選之間。忽覺半體酸疼。男根遂落。遍身流汗。即發癩瘡。眉毛鬢鬚。一時俱墮。錄事悲悔百方。竟不痊損。

There was a bhikṣuṇī whose name has been lost. She lived within the borders of Kunshan County in Suzhou. Having entered the Way in her youth, she constantly recited the Lotus Sūtra twice each day for over twenty years. Her appearance was graceful and composed, so that all who saw her felt affection and longing for her. In the first year of the Yongchang reign era, the county recording officer, surnamed Zhu, conceived evil thoughts and made unseemly demands upon her. The nun's noble resolve was steadfast and upright, and she refused to yield to him. Zhu then harassed and disrupted the monastic assembly, damaging the permanent property of the temple. The nuns did not know by what means they might escape this misery. The sūtra-reciting nun said, "How could this Lotus Sūtra be without miraculous efficacy?" She immediately put on clean clothes, entered the Buddha hall, burned incense, and made a vow. After this, the recording officer, using another matter as a pretext, came to lodge overnight with illicit intentions, intending just then to head toward the nun's quarters. In a brief moment, he suddenly felt aching pain in half of his body, whereupon his male organ fell off. Sweat poured over his entire body, and leprosy sores immediately erupted; his eyebrows, beard, and sideburns all fell out at once. The recording officer grieved and repented in a hundred ways, but in the end he was never cured.