華嚴經傳記 3.6

3.6

釋慧眺。姓莊氏。少出家以小乘為業。馳譽江漢。承象王哲公在龍泉講三論。心生不忍曰。三論明空。講者著空。言訖舌出三尺。鼻眼兩耳竝皆流血。七日不語。有伏法師。聞之曰。汝大癡也。一言毀經。罪過五逆。可信大乘方得免耳。乃令懺悔。舌還故入。便舉往哲所。唯聽大乘。哲之云。亡為建七處八會方廣齊。百日既滿。即往香山神足寺。足不踰閫。常習大乘。四時每講華嚴經。用陳懺謝。貞觀十一年四月。在松林坐禪。見有三人形服都雅。請受菩薩戒。受訖白曰。禪師大利根。若不改心信大乘者。千佛出世。猶在地獄。房此重厲。涕血交流。大哭還寺。在講者房前。宛轉嗚咽不得能言。以水灑醒。乃更大哭。繞佛懺悔。用此為常。又懃化士俗。造華嚴大品等各一百部。至十三年三月。佛前禮懺。安然坐化。因此而終。春秋八十餘矣。終後七日。林樹白色。過此方復焉。斯亦知過能改。誠可嘉也。寺去城五十里。從受歸戒七千餘人。填赴山河。為建大齋。於墓所三十法師。各開一經。用津靈造。

Shi Huitiao, whose secular surname was Zhuang, left home at an early age and took Hīnayāna as his practice, winning renown along the Yangzi and Han rivers. Hearing that Master Xiangwang Zhe was lecturing on the Three Treatises at Longquan, he felt unbearable indignation in his heart and said: 'The Three Treatises elucidate emptiness; the lecturer is attached to emptiness.' No sooner had he spoken than his tongue protruded three feet, and blood flowed from his nose, eyes, and both ears; for seven days he could not speak. A Dharma Master Fu, hearing of this, said: 'You are utterly foolish! Slandering the scripture with a single word incurs a sin exceeding the five heinous offenses. Only by having faith in the Mahāyāna can you escape it.' He then had him repent, whereupon his tongue withdrew to its original place. He was then brought to Master Zhe's dwelling to listen solely to the Mahāyāna. When Zhe passed away, Huitiao established a Vaipulya retreat of the seven places and eight assemblies for him. When the hundred days were completed, he went directly to Shenzusi on Mount Xiang. His feet did not cross the threshold; he constantly practiced Mahāyāna, lecturing on the Avataṃsaka Sūtra through the four seasons to express his repentance. In the fourth month of the eleventh year of Zhenguan, while sitting in meditation in a pine grove, he saw three persons of refined appearance and attire requesting to receive the bodhisattva precepts. After receiving them, they said: 'Chan Master, you have sharp faculties. Had you not changed your mind and believed in the Mahāyāna, even with the appearance of a thousand Buddhas, you would still be in hell.' Appalled by this stern admonition, with tears and blood flowing together, he wept bitterly and returned to the monastery. In front of the lecturer's room, rolling on the ground and sobbing, he could not speak. Sprinkled with water to revive him, he wept even more bitterly, circumambulating the Buddha and repenting, making this his regular practice. He also diligently converted gentry and laypeople, copying one hundred copies each of the Avataṃsaka and the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā. In the third month of the thirteenth year, bowing in repentance before the Buddha, he serenely passed away while seated. He was over eighty years of age. For seven days after his passing, the forest trees turned white, returning to normal only after that. This shows that knowing one's error and being able to correct it is truly commendable. The monastery was fifty li from the city; more than seven thousand people who had received the refuges and precepts from him filled the mountains and rivers, establishing a great vegetarian feast for him. At the burial site, thirty Dharma Masters each expounded one scripture to ferry his spirit across.