高僧傳 11.110

11.110

釋志道，姓任，河內人。性溫謹。十七出家，止靈曜寺。蔬素少欲，六物之外，略無兼畜。學通三藏，尤長律品。何尚之欽德致禮，請居所造法輪寺。先時魏虜滅佛法，後世嗣興，而戒授多闕。道既誓志弘通，不憚艱苦，乃携同契十有餘人，往至虎牢。集洛、秦、雍、淮、豫五州道士，會於引水寺。講律明戒，更申受法。偽國僧禁獲全，道之力也。後還京邑，王奐出鎮湘州，携與同遊。以永明二年卒於湘土，春秋七十有三。

Shi Zhidao, surnamed Ren, was a native of Henei. By nature he was gentle and prudent. He went forth from the household at the age of seventeen and stayed at Lingyao Temple. He ate vegetarian food and had few desires; apart from the six monastic requisites, he kept almost no extra possessions. His learning spanned the Tripiṭaka, and he was particularly well-versed in the Vinaya rules. He Shangzhi admired his virtue, paid him homage, and invited him to reside at Falun Temple, which He had constructed. Previously, when the northern Wei invaders destroyed the Buddhadharma and the later lineage revived it, the transmission of precepts was largely deficient. Since Dao had vowed to propagate the teachings and did not shrink from hardship, he led more than ten like-minded companions to Hulao. He gathered the monastics of the five provinces of Luo, Qin, Yong, Huai, and Yu, meeting at Yinshui Temple. Lecturing on the Vinaya and clarifying the precepts, he renewed the transmission of the ordinations. That the monastic prohibitions of the illegitimate state were preserved intact was due to Dao's efforts. Later he returned to the capital. When Wang Huan went out to govern Xiangzhou, he took Dao along. He died in Xiangzhou in the second year of Yongming at the age of seventy-three.