佛祖統紀 26.26

26.26

法師曇順。黃龍人。幼出承訓羅什。講釋群經妙盡色空無著之旨。什歎曰。此子奇器也。後來廬山同修淨業。寧蠻校尉劉遵孝。於江陵立寺要師經始。盛弘念佛三昧之道。宋元嘉二年別眾坐逝。異香滿室。春秋七十九。

Dharma Master Tanshun was a native of Huanglong. He renounced the householder's life at a young age and received instructions from Kumārajīva. In lecturing on and explaining various scriptures, he thoroughly plumbed the profound purport of form and emptiness being without attachment. Kumārajīva sighed in admiration: “This young man is an extraordinary vessel!” Later, he came to Mount Lu to cultivate pure karma together [with the others]. Liu Zunxiao, the Commandant of Pacifying the Southern Barbarians, founded a monastery in Jiangling and invited the Master to oversee its establishment, where he extensively propagated the path of the mindfulness-of-Buddha samādhi. In the second year of the Yuanjia reign era of the Song, he bid farewell to the community and passed away while sitting upright, an extraordinary fragrance filling the room. His age was seventy-nine.