景德傳燈錄 26.65

26.65

太平興國四年例試僧經業。山門老宿各寫法名。唯師不閑書札。時通判李憲問禪師。世尊還解書也無。師曰。天下人知。至淳化初不疾命侍僧開浴。浴訖垂誡徒眾安坐而逝。塔于本山。三年後門人遷塔。發龕覩師全身不散。容儀儼若髭髮仍長。迎入新塔。

In the fourth year of the Taiping Xingguo era, there was an official examination of monks on the scriptures. The senior elders of the monasteries all wrote down their Dharma names; the Master alone was unversed in writing. At the time, the Controller General Li Xian asked the Chan Master, "Does the World-Honoured One understand writing or not?" The Master said, "Everyone in the realm knows." At the beginning of the Chunhua era, without illness, he ordered his attendant monk to prepare a bath. After bathing, he bequeathed admonitions to his disciples, sat peacefully, and passed away. A stūpa was erected on his home mountain. Three years later, his disciples moved the stūpa; opening the shrine, they saw that the Master's entire body was intact, his appearance dignified, and his beard and hair had grown longer. They welcomed him into the new stūpa.