佛祖統紀 37.29

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二年。帝幸同泰寺設無礙大會（礙礙同出梵典）是年凡三設大會○華陽真人陶弘景告化。香氣積日不散。諡貞白先生。所撰書曰真誥。有云。清虛裴真人弟子三十四人。其十八人學佛道。餘學仙道。紫陽周真人弟子十五人。四人解佛法。桐柏真人王子喬弟子二十五人。八人學佛法。對會稽東去岸七萬里。其西小方諸山。多有奉佛道。有浮圖高百丈。金玉鏤之（雖奉佛道不作比丘形）○柏闓為陶隱居。執役十餘年。一旦有青童白鶴自天而下曰。太上召柏先生。隱居問何道致此。君曰。修默朝之道積年矣。即昇天而去。三日密降隱居之室曰。君之陰功著矣。所修本草。以虻蟲水蛭輩為藥害於物命。一紀之後但解形去世。為蓬萊都水監耳。隱居乃以草木藥可代物命者。著別行本草三卷以贖過。

In the second year, the Emperor went to Tongtai Monastery and established a great unobstructed assembly. (In this year, great assemblies were held three times in total.) The Perfected One of Huayang, Tao Hongjing, passed away. The fragrance did not disperse for days. He was posthumously named Master Zhenbai. The book he wrote was titled *Declarations of the Perfected* (Zhen’gao), in which it is said: 'Of the thirty-four disciples of the Perfected One of Pure Emptiness, Pei, eighteen studied the Buddha’s Way, and the rest studied the Immortals’ Way. Of the fifteen disciples of the Perfected One of Purple Yang, Zhou, four understood the Buddha Dharma. Of the twenty-five disciples of the Perfected One of Tongbai, Prince Qiao, eight studied the Buddha Dharma. Seventy thousand li east from the coast of Kuaiji, to the west of Little Fangzhu Mountain, there are many who uphold the Buddha’s Way; there is a stupa a hundred zhang high, carved with gold and jade.' (Although they upheld the Buddha’s Way, they did not take the form of bhikṣus.) Bai Kai served Tao the Recluse for more than ten years. One day, a green lad and a white crane descended from the sky, saying: 'The Supreme One summons Master Bai.' The Recluse asked what Way led to this. Bai said: 'I have cultivated the Way of the Silent Audience for years.' Thereupon he ascended to heaven and departed. Three days later, he secretly descended to the Recluse’s chamber and said: 'Your hidden merit is prominent, but the pharmacopoeia you edited used horseflies and leeches as medicine, which harmed living creatures. One twelve-year cycle after this, you will merely shed your form to leave the world and become the Director of Waters on Penglai.' The Recluse thereupon compiled three scrolls of an *Independent Pharmacopoeia* (Biexing Bencao), substituting botanical medicines for animal lives in order to redeem his fault.