佛祖統紀 26.31

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法師道敬。瑯邪王氏。祖凝之刺江州。遂從遠公出家。年十七博通經論日記萬言。每歎戒律終身難全。願淨六根但稟一戒。以為得度之要。遠公知其堅正許之。篤志念佛蚤夜勿替。遠公歸寂。乃入若邪山。宋永初元年謂眾曰。先師見命吾其行矣。即端坐唱佛而化。眾見光明滿室。彌時方滅。春秋五十二。

Dharma Master Daojing came from the Wang family of Langye. His grandfather, Wang Ningzhi, served as the Regional Inspector of Jiangzhou, so he renounced the householder's life under Master Yuan. At the age of seventeen, he was broadly versed in scriptures and treatises, memorizing ten thousand words a day. He often lamented that it was difficult to maintain the precepts entirely for one's whole life, and vowed to purify the six sense faculties by observing merely a single precept, considering this the key to obtaining deliverance. Master Yuan recognized his firm rectitude and permitted it. He was devoted to reciting the Buddha's name day and night without interruption. When Master Yuan entered nirvāṇa, he entered Mount Ruoye. In the first year of the Yongchu reign era of the Song, he said to the assembly: “My late master summons me; I shall be on my way.” He then sat upright, chanted the Buddha's name, and transformed. The assembly saw a bright light fill the room, which dissipated only after a long while. His age was fifty-two.