法苑珠林 61.13

61.13

言竟各去。爾後月日不復見此二人。傳者云。將僧寤共之南岳不反。張奴與杯度相見。甚有所敘。人所不解。度猶停都少時游止無定。請召或往不往。時南州有陳家。頗有衣食。度往其家甚見料理。聞都下復有一杯度。陳父子五人咸不信。故下都看之。果如其家杯度。形相一種。陳為設一合蜜薑。及刀子熏陸香手巾等。度即食蜜薑都盡。餘物宛然在膝前。其父子五人恐是其家杯度。即留二弟。停都寺視。餘三人還家。家中杯度如舊。膝前亦有香刀子等。但不噉蜜薑為異。乃語陳云。刀子鈍可為磨之。二弟都還云。彼度已移靈鷲寺。其家度忽求黃紙兩幅作書。書不成字。合同其背。陳問上人作何券書。度不答。竟莫測其然。遂絕迹矣。都下杯度猶去來山邑。多行神呪。時庾常婢偷物而叛。四追不擒。乃問度。度云。已死。在金城江邊空塜中。往看果如所言。孔寧子時為黃門侍郎。在廨患痢。遣信請度。度呪竟云難差。見有四鬼皆被傷截。寧子泣曰。昔孫恩作亂。家為軍人所破。二親及叔皆被痛酷。寧子果死。又有齊諧妻母胡氏病。眾治不愈。後諧請僧設齋齋坐。有僧聰道人。勸迎杯度。度既至一呪病者即愈。齊諧伏事為師。因為作傳記。其從來神異大略與上同也。至元嘉三年九月。辭諧入東。留一萬錢物寄諧倩為營齋。於是別去。行至赤山湖。患痢而死。諧即為營齋。并接屍還葬建鄴之覆舟山。至四年有吳興邵信者。甚奉法遇傷寒病。無人敢看。乃悲泣念觀音。忽見一僧來云。是杯度弟子。語云莫憂。家師尋來相看。答云。度練已死。何容得來。道人云。來復何難。便衣帶頭出一合許散與服之。病即差。又有杜僧哀者。住在南岡下。昔經伏事杯度。兒病甚篤。乃思念。恨不得度練神呪。明日忽見度來言語如常。即為呪病者便愈。至五年三月八日度復來齊諧家。呂道慧聞人怛之祚天期水丘熙等。並共見皆大驚即起禮拜。度語眾人言。年當大凶。可勤修福業。法意道人甚有德。可往就其修立故寺以禳災禍也。須臾門上有一僧喚度。度便辭去。云貧道當向交廣之間不復來也。齊諧等拜送殷勤。於是絕迹。傾世亦言。時有見者。既未的其事。故無可傳也。

Having finished speaking, each departed. From then on, for months and days, these two men were not seen again. Traditional accounts say that he took the monk Wuchan with him to the Southern Peak and never returned. When Zhang Nu and Beidu met, they conversed at great length, yet other people could not understand them. Beidu still lingered in the capital for a short while, wandering without fixed abode; when invited, he might go or might not go. At that time in Nanzhou there was a Chen family of comfortable means; when Beidu went to their house, he was treated with great hospitality. Hearing that there was another Beidu in the capital, the five men of the Chen family—father and sons—none of them believed it, and so went down to the capital to look. He indeed was just like the Beidu in their home, identical in appearance and form. Chen set out for him a container of honey-preserved ginger, along with a knife, frankincense, hand towels, and other items. Beidu at once ate all of the honey-preserved ginger, while the other items remained as before in front of his knees. Fearing that this might be the Beidu from their own home, the father and sons left the two younger brothers behind to remain at the capital temple and watch, while the other three returned home. The Beidu at home was there as before, and in front of his knees were also the incense, knife, and other items, with the sole difference that he had not eaten the honey-preserved ginger. He then said to Chen, "The knife is blunt; you may sharpen it for me." The two younger brothers returned from the capital and said, "That Beidu has already moved to Lingjiu Temple." The Beidu at their home suddenly asked for two sheets of yellow paper to write a letter. The writing did not form characters, and the reverse sides were sealed together. Chen asked, "What kind of contract or deed is the Venerable making?" Beidu did not reply, and in the end none could fathom the reason; he thereupon vanished without a trace. The Beidu in the capital still went back and forth between mountains and towns, performing many divine spells. At that time, a maidservant of Yu Chang stole goods and fled. Though pursued on four sides, she could not be captured. They then asked Beidu. Beidu said, "She is already dead, inside an empty grave beside the river at Jincheng." When they went to look, it was indeed as he had said. When Kong Ningzi was serving as Gentleman of the Yellow Gate, he fell ill with dysentery while in his office and sent a messenger to invite Beidu. After performing his spell, Beidu said that it would be difficult to cure: "I see four ghosts, all wounded and mutilated." Ningzi wept and said, "In the past, during Sun En's rebellion, my family was ruined by soldiers; my parents and uncle all suffered cruel and agonizing ends." Ningzi indeed died. Furthermore, the mother-in-law of Qi Xie, née Hu, fell ill, and treatments by many failed to cure her. Later, Xie invited monks to hold a vegetarian feast; among those seated at the feast was the monk Cong, who urged him to welcome Beidu. Once Beidu arrived, with a single spell the sick woman was at once cured. Qi Xie served him with devotion as his master and consequently wrote a biographical record about him; the divine anomalies from throughout his life were in broad outline the same as described above. In the ninth month of the third year of the Yuanjia reign era, he bid farewell to Xie to travel east, leaving behind ten thousand coins and goods with Xie, asking him to hold a vegetarian feast on his behalf, and then departed. Reaching Lake Chishan, he fell ill with dysentery and died. Xie immediately held the feast for him and received his corpse to return and bury it at Mount Fuzhou in Jianye. In the fourth year, Shao Xin of Wuxing, who was very devoted to the Dharma, contracted typhoid fever, and no one dared care for him. Weeping with sorrow, he was mindful of Avalokiteśvara, when suddenly he saw a monk arrive who said he was a disciple of Beidu. He told him, "Do not worry; my master will soon come to visit you." [Shao] replied, "Master Du has already died; how could he possibly come?" The monk said, "What difficulty is there in his coming?" He then drew from the corner of his sash about a containerful of medicinal powder and gave it to him to take, and the illness was immediately cured. There was also Du Seng'ai, who lived beneath Nangang; he had previously served Beidu. His son became critically ill, and he thought of him with regret, lamenting that he could not obtain Master Du's divine spell. The next day he suddenly saw Beidu arrive, speaking as usual, who at once performed a spell for the sick person, and he was cured. On the eighth day of the third month of the fifth year, Beidu again came to Qi Xie's home. Lü Daohui, Wenren Danzhi, Zuo Tianqi, Shuiqiu Xi, and others all saw him together; exceedingly astonished, they at once stood up and bowed. Beidu said to the crowd, "This year will see a great disaster; you should diligently cultivate meritorious karma. The Daoist Daoyi possesses great virtue; you should go to him to repair and establish the ancient temple, so as to avert calamities and misfortunes." Shortly after, a monk at the gate called for Beidu. Beidu then took his leave, saying, "This poor monk will be going to the regions of Jiao and Guang, and will not return again." Qi Xie and the others bowed and saw him off with deep devotion, and thereupon he vanished without a trace. In later generations people also said that at times someone saw him; yet because the facts could not be verified, there was nothing to transmit.