廣弘明集 10.7

10.7

于時員置百二十人監護。吏力各有差。並選釋李門人有名當世者。著衣冠笏履。名通道觀學士。有前沙門京兆樊普曠者。彭亨譎詭調笑動人。帝頗重之。召入通道。雖被抑退。常翦髮留鬚。帝問何事去留。曠曰。臣學陛下。二教雖除猶存通道。鬚為俗飾故留。髮非俗教故遣。帝曰。俗有留髮上加以冠。何言非教。曠曰。無髮之士豈是教乎。臣預除之。加冠何損。帝笑之。自爾常淨剃髮著冠纓領。人有問者曰。我患熱也。云云。

At that time, an establishment of one hundred and twenty overseers was appointed, with varied staff and labor allotments. Both Buddhist and Daoist disciples who were famous in their day were selected; they wore caps, robes, held tablets, and wore shoes, and were titled Academicians of the Abbey of Universal Dao. There was a former śramaṇa of the capital district named Fan Pukuang, whose belly was swollen and whose demeanor was eccentric, who moved people with his jesting. The Emperor respected him considerably and summoned him to enter the Universal Dao [Abbey]. Although demoted [from the sangha], he always clipped his hair and kept his beard. The Emperor asked him why he shaved one and kept the other. Pukuang said: ‘Your subject emulates Your Majesty: although the two teachings have been abolished, the Universal Dao is still preserved. The beard is a worldly adornment, hence I kept it; the hair is not of worldly teaching, hence I discarded it.’ The Emperor said: ‘In worldly custom, one keeps the hair and tops it with a cap. How can you say it is not of the teaching?’ Pukuang said: ‘Can hairless gentlemen be part of the teaching? Since your subject removed it beforehand, what harm is there in adding a cap?’ The Emperor laughed at this. From then on he kept his head cleanly shaven while wearing a cap, tassels, and collar. When people asked him about it, he said: ‘I suffer from the heat,’ and so forth.