景德傳燈錄 26.65

26.65

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.