Master Fache: Teaching the Sutra Line by Line, the Leper's Skin Made Whole
Person：Fache
Period：Tang dynasty (Puzhou)
A Jiangzhou man who settled on the lone hill of Puzhou; the Chiyan ji files him under the Tang.
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事見《法華經持驗記》卷一唐朝「唐蒲州釋法徹」條。《顯應錄》未收此條。以下白話譯註依《持驗記》。
故事
法徹法師，絳州人。少時勤苦，通達《法華經》，一生常以此經誘導教化眾生。
蒲州境內有座孤山。法徹依山結業，在那裡初創一處蘭若。此地本來高峻險阻，斷絕水源；法徹積年崇奉道法，一日之間，清泉忽然從地下迸湧而出。刺史房仁裕為此申請朝廷賜下寺額，就以「陷泉」為寺名。
一次，法徹在路上遇到一個患癩病的人。他把病人引到山中，為他鑿了一個石窟居住，供給飲食，又教他誦《法華經》。
癩者向來不識字，加以生性頑鈍，法徹便一句一句地教授，始終不辭疲倦。
誦到第六卷時，癩病漸漸痊癒。整部經誦完，眉毛鬍鬚重新生出，皮膚已恢復如初。
編者省思
本則的重心不在泉湧（那是蘭若獲得官方承認的「基建奇蹟」），而在那一句「句句授之，終不辭倦」。不識字、又頑鈍的癩者，從第一句到第七卷末，每一句都是法徹親口教的——這是感應錄文獻中罕見的「教學現場」記錄。
經典、病者與教學者三者的關係也值得深思：痊癒的進度表與誦經的進度表同步（第六卷漸愈、全卷終而膚故），這種「量化」的敘事，正是古代宗教文獻建立可信度的方式。至於其是否為現代醫學意義上的治癒記載，本站依免責聲明的立場，作宗教文獻如實呈現，不作醫療主張。
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