華嚴經傳記 5.10

5.10

雍州萬年縣人。康阿祿山。以調露二年五月一日。染患遂亡。至五日將殯載至墓所。未及下車。聞棺中有聲。親里疑其重活。剖棺視之。祿山果蘇。起載至家中。自說被冥道誤追。在閻羅王前。總有三十五人。共作一行。其中有新豐果毅并祿山等十五人。先有戒行。同於王所。披訴得還。甞時見東市藥行人阿容師。師去調露元年患死。為生時煮鷄子。與七百人。入鑊湯地獄。先識祿山。遂憑屬曰。吾第四子行證。稍有仁慈。君為我語之。令寫華嚴經一部。餘不相當。若得為寫。此七百人。皆得解脫矣。山後休健。往新豐。尋覓果毅。相見悲喜。猶若故交。各說所由。暗相符會。又往東市賣藥阿家。以容師之言。具告行證。證大悲感。遂於西大原寺法藏師處。請華嚴經。令人書寫。初自容師亡後。家人寂無夢想。至初寫經之夕。合家同夢。其父來喜暢無已。到永隆元年八月。莊嚴周畢。請大德沙門慶經設供。祿山爾日亦在會中。乃見容師等七百鬼徒。并來齋處。禮敬三寶。同跪僧前。懺悔受戒。事畢而去。山既備矚冥司深信罪業。遂屏絕人事。永棄俗緣。入太白終南。專務栖隱。後不知所終。

Kang Alushan was a man of Wannian County in Yongzhou. On the first day of the fifth month of the second year of Tiaolu, he contracted an illness and subsequently died. On the fifth day, as they were about to conduct his funeral and carried him to the grave site, before he could be lowered from the carriage, a sound was heard from within the coffin. His relatives suspected that he had come back to life, so they pried open the coffin to inspect it; Alushan had indeed revived. He got up and was carried home, where he personally recounted that he had been mistakenly summoned by the underworld. Before King Yama, there were thirty-five people in all, standing together in a single row. Among them were the Xinfeng [Subprefecture] Guoyi officer and Alushan, fifteen men in all, who had previously observed the precepts; together at the King's seat, they presented their petition and were permitted to return. At that time, he had seen Master Rong, a pharmacist from the East Market. Master Rong had fallen ill and died in the first year of Tiaolu; because he had boiled chicken eggs during his life, he was cast into the cauldron of boiling water hell along with seven hundred people. Knowing Alushan from before, he thereupon entrusted him with a message, saying: 'My fourth son, Xingzheng, has some slight benevolence and compassion. Please tell him on my behalf to have one copy of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra copied. Nothing else can match it. If he would have it copied for me, all seven hundred of these people will attain liberation.' Afterward, when [Alu]shan had recovered his health, he went to Xinfeng to search for the Guoyi officer; when they met, their sorrow and joy were just like that of old friends, and as each related the reasons, their stories coincided exactly. He also went to the medicine-seller A's family in the East Market, and fully reported Rong's words to Xingzheng. Xingzheng was deeply moved and saddened; he thereupon requested the Avataṃsaka Sūtra from Master Fazang at the West Dayuansi, and had someone copy it. At first, after Master Rong had died, the family had no dreams of him whatsoever. But on the evening when the sūtra first began to be copied, the entire family shared the same dream, in which his father came, filled with boundless joy. By the eighth month of the first year of Yonglong, the adornment [of the scrolls] was complete, and they invited an eminent monk to celebrate the sūtra and provide offerings. On that day, Alushan was also in the assembly; he then saw Master Rong and the seven hundred ghost followers all coming to the vegetarian feast, revering the Three Jewels, kneeling together before the monks, repenting, and receiving the precepts. When the matter was finished, they departed. Having fully witnessed the underworld tribunal, [Alu]shan came to deeply believe in sinful karma; he thereupon cut off human affairs, permanently abandoned worldly ties, entered Mounts Taibai and Zhongnan, and devoted himself exclusively to seclusion. Afterward, his end was unknown.