高僧傳 11.126

11.126

開善智藏、法音慧廓，皆崇其德，素請事師禮。梁臨川王宕、南平王偉、儀同陳郡袁昂、永康定公主、貴嬪丁氏，並崇其戒範，盡師資之敬。凡白黑門徒，一萬一千餘人。以天監十七年五月二十六日卒于建初寺，春秋七十有四。因窆于開善路西，定林之舊墓也。弟子正度立碑頌德，東莞劉勰製文。

Zhizang of Kaishan and Huikuo of Fayin both revered his virtue and habitually treated him with the etiquette due a teacher. King Dang of Linchuan and King Wei of Nanping of the Liang, Yuan Ang of Chen Commandery who held the rank of Specially Advanced, Princess Ding of Yongkang, and the Noble Consort Madame Ding, all respected his precept model and paid him the utmost deference as a master. In all, his lay and monastic disciples numbered over eleven thousand. On the twenty-sixth day of the fifth month of the seventeenth year of the Tianjian era (518 CE), he died at Jianchu Temple, at seventy-four years of age. He was accordingly buried to the west of the Kaishan road, at the old cemetery of Dinglin. His disciple Zhengdu erected a stele eulogizing his virtue, and Liu Xie of Dongguan composed the text.