法苑珠林 95.56

95.56

唐鋒州南孤山陷泉寺沙門徹禪師。曾行遇癩人在穴中。徹引出山中為鑿穴給食。令誦法華經。素不識字。加又頑鄙。句句授之。終不辭倦。誦經向半。夢有教者。自後稍聰。得五六卷瘡漸覺愈。一部既了鬚眉平復。膚色如常。故經云。病之良藥。斯言驗矣（右一驗出冥報拾遺）。

During the Tang dynasty, Chan Master Che of Xianquan Temple on Mount Nangu in Fengzhou once encountered a leper living in a cave while traveling. Che brought him out into the mountains, excavated a cave for him, and provided him with food, having him recite the Lotus Sūtra. He was completely illiterate and, moreover, crude and obstinate; [Che] taught him sentence by sentence, never showing weariness. When the recitation of the scripture was half completed, he dreamt that someone was instructing him, and from then on, he gradually became intelligent. By the time he reached the fifth or sixth fascicle, his sores gradually began to heal. When he had finished the entire scripture, his beard and eyebrows were restored, and his skin color became normal. Therefore, the scripture says: "It is an excellent medicine for illnesses." These words are indeed verified. (The preceding verification is from the Mingbao shiyi.)