佛祖統紀 45.53

45.53

五年。勅錢唐天竺觀音院。歲度一僧以奉香火（上竺紀勝）○七月歐陽永叔自致仕居頴上。日與沙門遊。因自號六一居士。名其文曰居士集（歐公自作傳云。吾家藏書一萬卷。集錄三代以來金石遺文一千卷。有琴一張。有棊一局。而常置酒一壺。以吾一身老此五物）息心危坐屏却酒殽。臨終數日令往近寺。借華嚴經讀至八卷。倏然而逝（見外傳）永叔初登政府苦於多病。嘗夢至一所見十人冠冕列坐。一人曰。參政安得至此。永叔問曰。公等非釋氏所謂冥府十王乎。曰然。因問。世人飯僧造經。果有益否。曰安得無益。既寤病良已。自是益知敬佛（樞密副使吳充撰行狀云。此事得於公之孫曰恕）。

In the fifth year, it was decreed that Tianzhu Guanyin Cloister in Qiantang should ordain one monk each year to maintain incense and lamps (Shangzhu jisheng). / In the seventh month, Ouyang Yingshu, residing in Yingshang after his retirement, associated daily with monks. He thereupon styled himself Retired Scholar Liuyi (Six-One), and named his writings Collected Works of the Retired Scholar (Duke Ouyang's self-composed biography says: 'In my house are stored ten thousand volumes of books, a collection of one thousand volumes of bronze and stone inscriptions from the Three Dynasties onwards, one zither, one chessboard, and I regularly keep one pot of wine; with my single body I grow old among these five things'). Resting his mind and sitting erect, he renounced wine and meat. A few days before his death, he sent someone to a nearby monastery to borrow the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, read up to the eighth roll, and passed away suddenly (seen in unofficial biographies). When Yingshu first entered the government administration, he suffered from frequent illnesses. He once dreamt of coming to a place where he saw ten men sitting in a row wearing caps and robes. One person said, 'How could the Assistant Executive arrive here?' Yingshu asked, 'Are you gentlemen not what the Buddhists call the Ten Kings of the Netherworld?' They said, 'Indeed.' He then asked, 'Does the world's feeding of monks and copying of sūtras really bring benefit?' They replied, 'How could it not bring benefit?' Upon awakening, his illness was completely cured. From then on, he knew all the more to revere the Buddha (Wu Chong, Vice Commissioner of the Bureau of Military Affairs, wrote in the conduct narrative: 'This matter was obtained from the Duke's grandson, named Shu').