法華傳記 4.16

4.16

釋普明。姓張。臨淄人。少出家。稟性清純。蔬食布衣。以懺誦為業。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。有卿人王道真。妻病請明來呪。明入門婦便悶絕。俄見一物如狸。身長數尺許。從狗竇出。因此而愈。明甞行水傍祠。巫覡自云。神見之皆奔走。八十有五卒。

Śramaṇa Puming, whose secular surname was Zhang, was a native of Linzi. He left household life at an early age. His nature was pure and simple. Eating vegetarian food and wearing hempen robes, he took repentance and recitation as his practice, reciting the two sūtras, the Lotus Sūtra and the Vimalakīrti. Whenever it was time for chanting and recitation, he had separate clothes and a separate seat, and was never sullied by any impurity. Whenever he came to the 'Encouragement [of Samantabhadra]' chapter, he would invariably see Samantabhadra riding an elephant and standing before him. When reciting the Vimalakīrti-sūtra, he also heard heavenly music sounding in the air. Moreover, he was skilled in divine dhāraṇīs; whomever he sought to save was healed. Wang Daozhen, a fellow countryman, had an ailing wife and invited Ming to come and chant spells. As Ming entered the gate, the woman fell unconscious. Shortly after, a creature resembling a wildcat, several feet in length, was seen coming out from a dog hole. She was healed because of this. Once, Ming was passing by a riverside shrine; the spirit mediums and shamans said among themselves that when the spirits saw him, they all fled in disarray. He died at the age of eighty-five.