法苑珠林 89.124

89.124

夏侯均者。冀州阜城人也。顯慶二年病。經四十餘日昏亂殆死。自云。被配作牛頻經苦訴。訴云。甞三度於隱師處受戒懺悔。自省無過。何忍遣作牛身受苦如是。均已被配磨坊。經二十日。苦使後為勘當受戒。是實不虛。始得免罪。此人生平甚有膂力。酗酒好鬪。今現斷酒肉。清信賢者。為隱師弟子齋戒不絕（右一驗出冥祥拾遺）。

Xiahou Jun was a native of Fucheng in Jizhou. In the second year of Xianqing, he fell ill, and after more than forty days he became delirious and was on the verge of death. He himself said that he had been sentenced to be a ox, and had repeatedly made bitter appeals, pleading: 'I once received the precepts and performed deśanā three times before Master Yin. Reflecting on myself, I have no fault; how can you bear to send me to assume an ox's body and endure suffering like this?' Jun had already been assigned to the millhouse. After twenty days of hard labor, they checked whether his receiving the precepts was true and not false, and only then was he spared the punishment. In ordinary life, this man had great physical strength, drank heavily, and loved to fight. Now he has abstained from alcohol and meat, becoming a pure and faithful worthy, remaining a disciple of Master Yin with unbroken observance of the fasts and precepts. (The above one proof is from the Mingxiang Shiyi.)