法苑珠林 31.24

31.24

齊荊州有釋僧慧。姓劉。不知何許人。在荊州數十年。南陽劉虬在陟𡵆寺。請以屈之。時人見之已五六十年。終亦不老。舉止趣爾無甚威儀。往至病人家。若瞋必死。喜者必差。時咸以此為讖。凡未相識者。並悉其親表存亡之意。慧甞至江邊告津吏求度。吏迫以舟小未及過之。須臾已見慧在彼岸。諸人咸歎神異中山甄恬。南平車曇。同日請慧。慧皆赴之。後兩家驗覆方知分身。齊永明中。文慧要下京行過保誌。誌撫背曰赤龍子。他無所言。慧後還荊遇見鎮西長史劉景蕤。忽泣慟而投之。數日蕤果為刺史所害。後至湘州城南。忽云。地中有碑。眾人試掘。果得二枚。慧後不知所終。或云。永元中卒於江陵長沙寺。

During the Qi, in Jingzhou, there was the monk Senghui, surnamed Liu, though it is not known where he was from. He resided in Jingzhou for several decades. Liu Qiu of Nanyang, who was at Zhiqi Temple, invited him to come. People of the time had seen him for fifty or sixty years, yet in the end he did not age. His manner was casual, without much dignified deportment. Whenever he visited the home of a sick person, if he showed anger, the person would surely die; if he was pleased, the person would surely recover. People of the time all took this as an omen. As for those he had not yet met, he knew the state of life or death of their relatives. Hui once went to the riverbank and told the ferry warden that he sought to cross. Because the boat was small, the warden was pressed and had not yet crossed him over. In an instant, people already saw Hui on the opposite bank. Everyone marveled at this divine anomaly. Zhen Tian of Zhongshan and Che Tan of Nanping invited Hui on the same day, and Hui attended both. Later, when the two families verified and compared notes, they realized he had divided his body. During the Yongming era of the Qi, the Wenhui [Crown Prince] summoned him down to the capital. While traveling, he passed Baozhi. Zhi patted his back and said: "Son of the Red Dragon." He said nothing else. Later, when Hui returned to Jing[zhou], he encountered the Senior Clerk of the Pacification of the West, Liu Jingrui, and suddenly wept bitterly and threw himself upon him. A few days later, Rui was indeed killed by the regional inspector. Later, when he went south of the city of Xiangzhou, he suddenly said: "There are steles in the earth." The crowd tried digging, and indeed found two of them. Later, no one knew where Hui ended his days. Some say he died at Changsha Temple in Jiangling during the Yongyuan era.