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He himself recounted: "At first, several men arrested me and led me into the main gate of an official office. I saw over a hundred prisoners, all standing facing north in multiple rows, six rows in total. Those in the front row were plump, fair, and finely dressed, like noble persons. Those in the rear rows grew progressively emaciated and wretched; some wore cangues and fetters, while others only had their caps and sashes removed, all standing with sleeves tied together, heavily guarded by soldiers. When Shibian arrived, he was assigned to stand as the third person on the east end of the third row, also with his cap and sash removed and sleeves tied together. Shibian was anxious and terrified, and single-mindedly recollected the Buddha. Suddenly, he saw a monk he had known in life enter inside the cordon of soldiers, and none of the soldiers stopped him. He approached Shibian and said, 'In your life you did not cultivate merit; what can be done now?' Shibian begged piteously for rescue. The monk said, 'I will save you now. If you can get out, will you keep the precepts?' Shibian promised. In a moment, the clerks led the prisoners before the magistrate to interrogate them in turn. When he came outside the gate, \[the monk\] conferred the five precepts upon him, poured water from a vase onto his forehead, and said to him, 'You will revive when the sun reaches the west.' He also gave a yellow cloak to Shibian, saying, 'Drape this over yourself until you reach home, and place it in a pure place at home.' He then showed him the way back. Shibian draped it over himself, returned home, folded the cloak, and placed it on the corner of the bed. Soon after, his eyes opened and his body moved. His family scattered in fright, thinking that a corpse was rising; only his mother did not leave, and asked, 'Are you alive?' Shibian said, 'I was supposed to revive when the sun reaches the west.' Shibian suspected it was midday and asked his mother; his mother said, 'It is midnight.' Only then did he realize that life and death run contrary, and day and night are reversed. When the sun reached the west, he was able to eat and recovered. He could still see the cloak at the head of the bed, and by the time Shibian could get up, the form of the cloak gradually faded, though it still gave off light, which completely vanished only after seven days. Shibian thereupon maintained the five precepts. Several years later, a friend urged him to eat pork; Shibian had no choice but to eat a single piece. That night he dreamed that he had transformed into a rākṣasa, whose claws and teeth were several feet long, seizing live pigs and eating them. When he woke at dawn, he felt his mouth sour and spat blood; when he had someone look, his mouth was completely full of clotted blood. Shibian was terrified and dared not eat meat again. Several years later he took a wife, and his wife's family pressured him to eat \[meat\]; thereafter there were no further omens. However, for the past five or six years, Shibian's body has smelled foul, and he constantly has large ulcers that are festering and rotting, so that his body cannot heal. Some fear this is because he broke the precepts." \[Tang\] Lin formerly served on the same watch with Shibian in the Eastern Palace and witnessed him recount this himself (the above five verifications are taken from the Mingbao ji). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 94.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.94.14) - [Next: 94.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.94.16) - [Up: 94](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.94) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.94.15) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.94.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.94.15) · Pramāṇa