法苑珠林 33.80

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唐京師弘福寺釋慧雲。姓王。太原人也。遠祖避地止于九江。弱年樂道投匡山大林寺。時年二十五。有達禪師。江淮內外所在興造。雲為寺廟毀壞故。邀達營造得周。至隋季末年中表咸亂。有林士弘者。結眾務章偽稱楚帝。有尚書令鄱陽胡秀才。親領士眾臨據九江。因感發心欲寫廬山東林寺文殊瑞像。以雲有出眾之奇令鑒鑪錘。光儀乃具。唯頸及脇兩處有孔。時眾未寤。其年秀才偽勅所追。有像色金百二十兩。盛以竹筒。雲以賊徒蜂起。無方守護並用付才。又以念誦銅珠一貫遺才為信。行營亭軍士乞福。才得便風舉帆前引。於江中路遭浪船沒。財物蕩盡唯人達岸諸無所恨。但恨失像色金。煩冤江畔呼嗟未絕。誓願不成深為業也。須臾金筒隨浪逆流。并遺銅珠前後相繼。汎汎隱隱向岸就才。既獲像金舉眾大噭。欣慶無量。計被沒處。至所出岸三十餘里。重而能浮逆波相授。軍民通怪驚異靈感。及才遇害刃開頸脇恰符像焉。初才之欲擊賊。以金用委叔父。擔以避難。不免為賊所奪。既失像金。取求無計。尋有賊中來盜金投。曉俱不知是金擔也。曉得本金委雲成就。光相超挺。今在山閣。初鑄像時有李五戒。私發願曰。若鎔金日誓然一臂。雲為摸樣早成遂前。成日李氏不知。已鑄像了。乃夢像曰。汝先願燒臂如何違信耶。李氏夢寤因始知之。即往像前以刀解臂。蠟布纏骨燒而供養。天香垂下像放光照。異種奇瑞不可述盡。雲以貞觀年初因事入京。值首律師伏膺律業宰貴覩其德高。請奏令住弘福。至貞觀二十年。思慕本鄉。還歸九江本寺。身今現在。

Shi Huiyun of Hongfu Temple in the capital during the Tang was surnamed Wang, a native of Taiyuan. His distant ancestors avoided turmoil and settled in Jiujiang. In his youth he delighted in the Path, and entered Dalin Temple on Mount Kuang. At that time he was twenty-five. There was Chan Master Da, who was undertaking constructions everywhere across the Jiang and Huai regions. Because the temple was dilapidated, Yun invited Da to carry out the construction to completion. At the end of the Sui dynasty, the central and outer realms were all in chaos. There was Lin Shihong, who gathered a multitude in Wuzhang and falsely proclaimed himself Emperor of Chu. There was Hu Xiucai, the Secretariat Director of Poyang, who personally led soldiers and took control of Jiujiang. Because he was moved to generate the mind [for enlightenment], he wished to replicate the auspicious Mañjuśrī image of Donglin Temple on Mount Lu. Because Yun possessed an extraordinary talent surpassing others, he ordered him to oversee the furnace and hammer. The radiant form was thereby completed, yet there were holes in two places: the neck and the flank. The assembly at the time did not understand. In that year, Xiucai was pursued by an illegitimate imperial edict. He had one hundred and twenty liang of image-colored gold, stored in a bamboo cylinder. Because the rebels swarmed like bees and there was no way to protect it, Yun entrusted it all to Cai. He also gave Cai a string of bronze recitation beads as a token of faith, that the soldiers in the military outpost might pray for blessing. Cai caught a favorable wind, hoisted the sail, and sailed forward. Midway in the river, the boat sank in the waves; all the wealth and goods were washed away, and only the people reached the shore. Regretting nothing else, he only regretted losing the image-colored gold; crying out in distress on the riverbank, his weeping did not cease, grieving deeply that his vow was unfulfilled as an obstacle of karma. In an instant, the gold cylinder followed the waves against the current, and together with the bronze beads, one after another, floating and appearing faintly, approached the shore toward Cai. Having retrieved the image-gold, the entire assembly shouted aloud, rejoicing without measure. Calculating from where it was submerged to the shore where it emerged was over thirty li; heavy yet able to float, borne against the waves to be handed over, the soldiers and populace all marveled at this miraculous resonance. When Cai later met with death, the blade opened his neck and flank, precisely matching the image. Earlier, when Cai was about to attack the rebels, he had entrusted the gold to his uncle, who carried it on a shoulder pole to flee the danger, but could not avoid having it seized by the rebels. Having lost the image-gold, they had no means to search for it. Soon, a person came from among the rebels having stolen the gold, and turned to Xiao; neither knew it was the load of gold. Xiao obtained the original gold and entrusted it to Yun to complete it. The radiant form was supremely prominent, and is now in the mountain pavilion. When the image was first cast, there was Li Wujie, who privately made a vow: 'On the day the gold is melted, I vow to burn an arm.' Because Yun completed the mold early, the casting was moved forward. On the day of completion, Li was unaware that the image had already been cast. He then dreamed that the image said: 'You previously vowed to burn an arm; why have you broken your word?' Waking from the dream, Li only then learned of it. He immediately went before the image, severed his arm with a knife, wrapped the bone in waxed cloth, and burned it as an offering. Heavenly incense drifted down, the image emitted illuminating light, and the various wondrous portents could not be fully recounted. At the beginning of the Zhenguan reign, Yun entered the capital on some business. He met Vinaya Master Shou, submitted his mind to the Vinaya discipline, and ministers and nobles, seeing his high virtue, submitted a memorial requesting that he reside at Hongfu. In the twentieth year of the Zhenguan reign, longing for his home region, he returned to his home temple in Jiujiang, where he is living at present.