集神州三寶感通錄 1.19

1.19

岐州岐山縣華陽鄉王莊村𠗦玄嗣者。先來麁獷殊不信向。母兄承舍利從東都來。將欲藏掩。嗣不許往。母兄不用其語。至舍利所禮拜訖還家。玄嗣怒曰。此有何功德。若舍利有功德。家中佛像亦有功德。即取像燒之。有何靈驗。母兄救之已燒下半。玄嗣即時忽倒。後醒曰。忽到一處似是地獄。大鳥飛來啄睛噉肉。入大火坑燒烙困苦。以手摩面眉鬢墮落。目看天地全無精光。親屬傍看曰。汝自造罪無可代者。玄嗣神識不與人對。但曰。火燒我心東西馳走。又被打拍之狀摧慟號哭。又稱懺悔懺悔而晝夜唯走不曾得住。至二月十三日。親屬將至塔所。于時京邑大德行虔法師等百餘僧。為眾說法。裴尚官比丘尼等數百俗士五六千人。咸見玄嗣五體投地對舍利前。號哭懺悔不信之罪。又懺犯尼淨行。打罵眾僧盜食僧果。自懺已後眠夢稍安云。其佛頂骨國用珍寶贖之計寶約估評絹直四千疋。遂依其數以蕃練酬之。頂骨今仍在內云。

At Wangzhuang Village in Huayang Township, Qishan County, Qi Prefecture, there was a man named Tuo Xuansi. He was by nature coarse and unruly, lacking all faith. When his mother and elder brother heard that the śarīra had arrived from the Eastern Capital and was about to be entombed and sealed, Xuansi would not allow them to go. His mother and brother disregarded his words; they went to the site of the śarīra, paid reverence, and returned home. Xuansi said angrily: "What merit can there be in this? If the śarīra has merit, the Buddha image in our home must also have merit." He immediately took the image to burn it, [saying]: "What numinous efficacy does it have?" His mother and brother rushed to save it, but the lower half had already burned. At that very moment, Xuansi collapsed. When he later awoke, he said: "I suddenly came to a place resembling hell; large birds flew down to peck out my eyes and eat my flesh, and I fell into a great fire pit, suffering agonizing burns. When I stroked my face with my hand, my eyebrows and whiskers fell off; when I looked at heaven and earth, there was no brightness at all." His relatives watching by his side said: "You committed this sin yourself; no one can take your place." Xuansi's consciousness could not respond to others; he only said: "Fire is burning my heart!" and ran wildly to and fro. He also appeared as if being beaten, weeping in anguish and distress, and kept crying: "I repent! I repent!" running day and night without ever being able to stop. On the thirteenth day of the second month, his relatives brought him to the stūpa site. At that time, more than a hundred monks, including the Great Worthy Dharma Master Xingqian of the capital, were preaching the Dharma to the assembly. Palace Attendant Pei, several hundred bhikṣuṇīs, and five to six thousand laypeople all saw Xuansi cast his five limbs to the ground before the śarīra, weeping and lamenting to repent for his sin of disbelief, as well as repenting for violating nuns' pure conduct, beating and cursing monks, and stealing and eating monastic fruit. After he repented, his sleep and dreams gradually became peaceful, so it is said. As for that Buddha uṣṇīṣa bone, the state ransomed it with precious treasures, calculating the treasures at an estimated value of four thousand bolts of silk; they then paid for it in raw silk matching that amount. The uṣṇīṣa bone is said to remain inside the palace to this day.