法苑珠林 97.59

97.59

晉雒陽有釋訶羅竭者。本襄陽人。少出家誦經二百萬言。性虛玄守戒節。善舉厝美容色。多行頭陀獨宿山野。晉武帝太康九年。暫至雒陽。時疫疾甚流。呪者皆愈。至晉慧帝元康元年。迺入止婁至山石室中坐禪。此室去水既遠。時人欲為開㵎。竭曰。不假相勞。乃自起以左脚蹍室西石壁。壁陷沒指。既拔足已水從中出。清香濡美。四時不絕。來飲者。皆止飢渴除疾病。至元康八年。端坐從化。弟子依國法闍維之。焚燎累日而屍猶坐火中。永不灰燼。乃移還室內。後西域人竺定字安世。晉咸和中往其國。親自觀視見屍。儼然平坐。亡已三十餘年。定後至京。傳之道俗。

In the Jin dynasty, in Luoyang, there was Shi Heluojie, originally a native of Xiangyang. Having left home [for the monastic life] in his youth, he could recite two million words of the scriptures. He was by nature unattached and profound, observant of the precepts and moral discipline, graceful in his conduct, and of handsome appearance. He practiced dhūta austerities extensively, sleeping alone in mountains and wilderness. In the ninth year of the Taikang reign period of Emperor Wu of the Jin, he made a brief visit to Luoyang. At that time an epidemic was raging severely; everyone he incanted over was cured. In the first year of the Yuankang reign period of Emperor Hui of the Jin, he entered and dwelt in a stone chamber on Mount Louzhi to practice dhyāna. Because this chamber was far from water, the people of that time wanted to excavate a mountain stream for him. Heluojie said: 'There is no need to trouble yourselves.' He then rose, and with his left foot stomped against the western stone wall of the chamber; the wall sank in, submerging his toes. Once he pulled his foot out, water issued forth from within, pure, fragrant, sweet, and delicious, never failing through the four seasons. All who came to drink from it had their hunger and thirst stopped and their diseases eliminated. In the eighth year of the Yuankang reign period, he sat upright and passed away. His disciples cremated him according to the customs of the realm. Though the pyre burned for several days, his corpse still sat amid the flames, never turning to ash. Thereupon they moved it back inside the chamber. Later, a man from the Western Regions named Zhu Ding, styled Anshi, traveled to that land during the Xianhe reign period of the Jin, and went in person to look, seeing the corpse sitting upright and composed, though he had passed away more than thirty years earlier. Ding later arrived at the capital and transmitted this to the monastics and the laity.