法苑珠林 31.20

31.20

宋高昌有釋法朗。高昌人。幼而執行精苦多諸徵瑞。韜光蘊德人莫測其所階。朗師釋法進亦高行沙門。進嘗閉戶獨坐。忽見朗在前。問從何處來。答云。從戶鑰中入。云與遠僧俱至。日既將中願為設食進即為設食。唯聞匙鉢之聲竟不見人。昔廬山慧遠甞以一袈裟遺進。進即以為䞋。朗云眾僧已去。別日當取之。後見執爨者就進取衣。進即與之。訪常執爨者。皆云不取。方知是先聖人權迹取也。至魏虜毀滅佛法。朗西適龜茲。龜茲王與彼國大禪師結約。若有得道者至當為我說。我當供養。及朗至乃以白王。王待以聖禮。後終於龜茲。焚屍之日兩肩涌泉直上于天。眾歎希有。收骨起塔。後西域人來此土具傳此事。

During the Song, in Gaochang, there was the monk Falang, a native of Gaochang. From childhood his religious practice was refined and rigorous, and he displayed many auspicious omens. Concealing his radiance and holding his virtue within, none could fathom the level he had attained. Lang's master, the monk Fajin, was also an eminent and virtuous monk. Once, Jin had shut his door and was sitting alone, when suddenly he saw Lang before him. He asked where he had come from, and [Lang] replied: "I entered through the door's keyhole." He said that he had arrived together with monks from afar, and that since midday was approaching, he wished that food be provided for them. Jin immediately laid out food for them. He heard only the clatter of spoons and bowls, yet never saw a soul. Formerly, Huiyuan of Mount Lu had once given a kāṣāya to Jin, and Jin now offered it as a religious gift. Lang said: "The assembly of monks has already departed. You may collect it on another day." Later, he saw one of the kitchen workers come to Jin to take the robe, and Jin gave it to him. When he asked the regular kitchen workers, all said they had not taken it. Only then was it known that an ancient sage had taken it through a provisional manifestation. When the Wei caitiffs destroyed the Buddhist Dharma, Lang went west to Kucha. The king of Kucha had made a pact with the great meditation master of that realm: "If one who has attained the Way arrives, you must speak of it to me, and I shall make offerings to him." When Lang arrived, [the master] reported it to the king, and the king received him with the courtesies due a sage. Later, he died in Kucha. On the day his corpse was cremated, springs gushed forth from his two shoulders, soaring straight up to heaven. The multitude marveled at this as a rare occurrence. They gathered his bones and erected a stūpa. Later, men from the Western Regions came to this land and related this matter in full detail.