佛祖歷代通載 20.77

20.77

金國。詔請留仕翰林承旨。對越談論。多引儒書證成釋理。累贈金帛。受以給貧。囊無挑藥。金朝儀禮皆公定制。壽一百八歲。無疾跏趺援筆朗吟而往。詞曰。去國匇匇幾度年。公私無事兩忻然。當時議論何能固。今日機關別有緣。萬事已從前世訂。英名留付好人傳。孤身不作往來計。須信胸中別有天。

The Jin state issued an edict requesting him to remain and serve as Hanlin Academician Recipient of Edicts. When in discussions, he frequently cited Confucian texts to corroborate Buddhist principles. Repeatedly bestowed gold and silk, he accepted them only to give to the poor, keeping no medicine in his pouch. The court rituals of the Jin dynasty were all established by him. At the age of one hundred and eight, without illness, he sat cross-legged, took up his brush, chanted aloud, and passed away. His verse read: 'Leaving my country in haste, how many years have passed? / Free of public and private affairs, I am pleased in both. / How could discussions of those days remain fixed? / Today’s workings hold another affinity. / Ten thousand affairs were already settled in a former life; / A heroic name is left to be transmitted by good men. / A solitary body makes no plans of coming and going; / One must believe that within the chest there is another heaven.'