釋氏稽古略 3.33

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牛頭山　法融禪師。潤州延陵人也。姓韋氏。年十九學通經史。尋閱大部般若曉達真空。忽一日嘆曰。儒道世典非究竟法。般若正觀出世舟航。遂隱茅山。投師落髮。後入建康牛頭山幽棲寺北巖之石室宴坐觀心。有百鳥獻華之異。虎狼圍所居。四祖攝度之（傳燈錄）。

Mount Niutou. Chan Master Farong was a man from Yanling in Runzhou, with the surname Wei. At the age of nineteen, his learning encompassed the classics and histories. Soon after, he read the Great Prajñā and thoroughly understood ultimate emptiness. Suddenly one day he sighed, saying: "The worldly texts of Confucianism and Daoism are not the ultimate teaching; the correct contemplation of Prajñā is the boat to leave the world." Thereupon he went into seclusion on Mount Mao, submitted to a master, and shaved his hair. Later he went to Mount Niutou in Jiankang and sat in quiet contemplation observing the mind in the stone cave on the northern cliff of Youqi Monastery. There was the anomaly of a hundred birds presenting flowers, and tigers and wolves surrounding his dwelling. The Fourth Patriarch gathered and delivered him (Chuandeng lu).