景德傳燈錄 8.61

8.61

居士將入滅。令女靈照出視日早晚及午以報。女遽報曰。日已中矣。而有蝕也。居士出戶觀次。靈照即登父座合掌坐亡居士笑曰。我女鋒捷矣。於是更延七日。州牧于公問疾次。居士謂曰。但願空諸所有。慎勿實諸所無。好住世間皆如影響。言訖枕公膝而化。遺命焚棄。江湖緇白傷悼。謂禪門龐居士即毘耶淨名矣。有詩偈三百餘篇傳於世。

When the upāsaka was about to enter extinction, he had his daughter Lingzhao go outside to observe the time of day and report when it was noon. The daughter hastily reported, saying, "The sun has already reached the zenith, but there is an eclipse." While the upāsaka stepped outside the door to look, Lingzhao straightaway ascended her father's seat, joined her palms, and passed away sitting. The upāsaka smiled and said, "My daughter was sharp and swift!" Thereupon he prolonged [his life] for seven more days. When Governor Yu of the prefecture came to inquire after his illness, the upāsaka told him, "I ask only that you empty all that exists; beware of treating as real anything that does not exist. Farewell; all things in the world are like shadows and echoes." Having spoken, he rested his head on the governor's knee and passed away. His final instruction was that his remains be cremated and discarded. Monastics and laypeople throughout the rivers and lakes mourned in grief, saying that the Chan Gate's Upāsaka Pang was indeed the Pure Name of Vaiśālī. Over three hundred poems and verses of his are transmitted in the world.