集神州三寶感通錄 3.49

3.49

蒲州仁壽寺僧道遜者。即延之學士。講涅槃將百遍。有弘護正法心。四方所歸。無問客主將給之富。無有過者。貞觀四年崔義直為虞鄉令。遣人請遜講經及發題訖泣曰。去聖滋遠微言隱絕。庸鄙所傳不足師範。但以信心希向自發誠悟。今講止於師子品。日時既促願存心聽。既至其品無疾而終。道俗哀慟。義直徒跣扶柩送之南山。于時隆冬十一月。土地氷嚴。下屍於地。地生蓮花而小頭及手足各一。義直奇之令守。不覺盜折。明旦視之周身有花總五百莖。七日乃萎。

The monk Daoxun of Renshou Temple in Pu Prefecture was an academic disciple of Yan. He had lectured on the Nirvāṇa Sūtra nearly a hundred times and possessed a resolve to propagate and protect the true Dharma. People from the four quarters turned to him; without distinguishing between guest and host, the richness of his provisions was unsurpassed. In the fourth year of Zhenguan, Cui Yizhi served as magistrate of Yuxiang; he sent someone to invite Xun to lecture on the sūtra. After stating the title, Xun wept and said: 'The Holy One is ever more distant, and the subtle words have vanished. What an ordinary and base person transmits is unworthy to serve as a model; it is only through faith and aspiration that one spontaneously gives rise to sincere awakening. Today's lecture will end at the Lion Chapter; the time is short, so pray listen attentively.' When he reached that chapter, he died without illness. Monks and laypeople grieved and wept; Yizhi, walking barefoot, accompanied the coffin to the southern mountains. It was then the depths of winter, in the eleventh month, and the ground was frozen solid with ice. When they lowered the corpse to the ground, small lotus blossoms sprang from the earth—one each at his head, hands, and feet. Yizhi marveled at this and ordered it guarded, but unaware, someone snapped them off and stole them. The next morning, when they looked, blossoms surrounded his entire body, five hundred stems in all; they withered only after seven days.