集神州三寶感通錄 3.68

3.68

魏廢帝。甘露五年。沙門朱士行者。講小品經。恨章句未盡。以此年往西域尋求獲之。彼有留難。不許東返。士行執經王庭曰。必大法不傳當從火化。便以葉經投火。一無所損。舉國敬異。便達東夏。即放光經是也。年八十亡。依法火焚而經日不壞。道俗異之。乃具呪曰。若真得道法應毀壞。便應聲摧碎。遂收而起塔云。

In the fifth year of the Ganlu era of the Deposed Emperor of Wei, the śramaṇa Zhu Shixing was lecturing on the Astasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā Sūtra, lamenting that its chapters and verses were incomplete. In this year he went to the Western Regions to search for it, and obtained it. People there made difficulties and would not allow it to return east. Shixing held the scriptures in the royal court and said, 'If the Great Dharma is truly not to be transmitted, let it be committed to fire!' He then threw the leaf scriptures into the fire, and not a single part was damaged. The entire country revered this marvel, and [the text] then reached the Eastern Xia; this was the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā Sūtra. At eighty years of age he died. When cremated according to the Dharma, after a whole day the body was not consumed. Monastics and laity marveled at it, and then formulated an incantation, saying, 'If you truly attained the Way, according to the Dharma your body ought to disintegrate.' Thereupon, responding to the words, it broke into pieces. They then gathered [the relics] and erected a stūpa, so it is said.