三寶感應要略錄 2.11

2.11

雍州萬年縣康阿祿山。調露二年五月一日。染患遂亡。至五日蘇起。自說彼冥道。誤追在閻羅王。時見東市藥行人阿容師而去。調露元年患死。生時煮鷄子。與七百人。入鑊湯地獄。先識祿山。遂憑囑曰。吾第四子行證。稍有仁慈。君為語之。今寫花嚴經一部。余不相當。若適為寫此。七百人皆得解脫。山往東市賣藥阿家。以容師之言。具告行證。證大悲感。遂於西大原寺。請經令人書寫。初自容師亡後。家人無夢想。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。請大德法藏義學沙門慶經設供。祿山爾日亦在會中。乃見容師等七百鬼徒。並來齊處禮敬三寶。同跪僧前懺悔受戒。事畢曰。我等依經力。改報於天堂。言畢而去。山免備矚冥司。深信罪業矣。

Kang Alushan of Wannian County in Yongzhou contracted an illness and died on the first day of the fifth month of the second year of the Tiaolu era [680]. On the fifth day he revived. He himself said that along that underworld path he had been summoned by mistake before King Yama. At that time, he saw Master Ayong, a medicine merchant of the East Market, passing by. In the first year of the Tiaolu era, Ayong had fallen ill and died; in life he had boiled chicken eggs, and together with seven hundred people had entered the Hell of the Boiling Cauldron. Having known Lushan previously, he entrusted him with a request, saying: 'My fourth son, Xingzheng, possesses some benevolence. Please tell him for me: now copy one set of the Avataṃsaka-sūtra; other deeds will not match it. If he would just copy this for me, seven hundred people will all gain liberation.' Lushan went to the A family of medicine merchants in the East Market and told Xingzheng everything Master Yong had said. Xingzheng was deeply moved with sorrow; thereupon at the Western Great Taiyuan Monastery he requested the sūtra and had people copy it. Earlier, from the time Master Yong died, the family had had no dreams of him. On the evening when the sūtra first began to be copied, the entire family shared the same dream: their father came, joyful without end. By the eighth month of the first year of the Yonglong era [680], the adornment was completed, and they invited the Great Virtue Fazang and scholarly śramaṇas to celebrate the sūtra and offer a vegetarian feast. On that day Lushan was also present in the assembly. He then saw Master Yong and the crowd of seven hundred ghosts all come to the feast place to pay homage to the Three Jewels, kneeling together before the monks to repent and receive the precepts. When the matter was concluded, they said: 'Relying on the power of the sūtra, we have altered our retribution to the heavenly halls.' Having spoken, they departed. Having been spared, Lushan had fully witnessed the underworld tribunal, and deeply believed in karmic transgressions.