集神州三寶感通錄 3.10

3.10

高齊文宣在晉陽。使人騎白駱駝。向我寺取經函去。使問。不知何寺。帝曰。但任駝行。自知寺處。日晚出城駝行至急奄然如睡。忽至一山名為冥寂。山半有寺。群沙彌曰。高洋馲駝來也。便引入寺。見一老僧。拜已問曰。高洋作天子何似。答曰。聖明。問曰。爾來何為。曰令取經函。僧曰。洋在寺嬾讀經。今北行東頭是其房。可取函與之。即乘駝而返。如睡如夢奄至晉陽。以函返命。不久帝行至谷口木井寺。有捨身癡人。不解語。忽語帝曰。我先去爾後可來。帝然之。是夜癡人死。不久帝於晉陽不豫。使劉桃枝負行鼻血淋瀝。是夜帝崩。

Emperor Wenxuan of the Northern Qi was in Jinyang. He sent a man riding a white camel, saying, "Go to my monastery and fetch the sūtra case." The emissary asked, "I do not know which monastery." The Emperor said, "Simply let the camel go; it knows where the monastery is on its own." Leaving the city late in the day, the camel traveled with extreme haste; [the rider] was suddenly as if asleep. Suddenly he arrived at a mountain named Mingji. Halfway up the mountain there was a monastery. A crowd of novices said, "Gao Yang's camel has come!" They then led him into the monastery, where he saw an old monk. Having bowed, [the monk] asked, "How is Gao Yang doing as Son of Heaven?" He answered, "Sage and luminous." [The monk] asked, "Why have you come?" He said, "I was ordered to fetch a sūtra case." The monk said, "When Yang was in the monastery, he was lazy about reading sūtras. Now, the eastern end of the northern row is his room; you may take the case and give it to him." He immediately mounted the camel and returned. As if in sleep and as if in a dream, he suddenly arrived in Jinyang, and returned his commission with the case. Not long after, the Emperor traveled to Mujing Temple at Gukou. There was a foolish man who was ready to sacrifice his body and could not speak intelligible words. He suddenly said to the Emperor, "I will go first; you may come later." The Emperor agreed. That night the foolish man died. Not long after, the Emperor fell ill in Jinyang. He had Liu Taozhi carry him as he walked, his nose dripping and streaming blood. That night the Emperor passed away.