高僧傳 11.68

11.68

釋僧審，姓王，太原祁人。晉驃騎沈之後也，祖世寓居譙郡。審少出家，止壽春石㵎寺，誦《法華》、《首楞嚴》。常謂非禪不智，於是專志禪那。聞曇摩蜜多道王京邑，乃拂衣過江，止于靈曜寺。精勤諮受，曲盡深奧。時群劫入山，審端坐不動。賊乃脫衣以施之，又說法訓勗。劫賊慚愧流汗，作禮而去。靈鷲寺慧高從之受禪業，乃請審還寺，別立禪房。清河張振後又請居栖玄寺。文惠、文宣並加敬事，傅琰、蕭赤斧皆諮戒訓。王敬則入房覓審，正見入禪，因彈指而出曰「聖道人」，即奉米千斛，請受三歸。永明八年卒，春秋七十有五。

Shi Sengshen, whose secular surname was Wang, was a native of Qi in Taiyuan. He was a descendant of the Jin senior general of agile cavalry [Wang] Shen; his ancestral family had settled in Qiao Commandery. Shen took pravrajyā in his youth and resided at Shijian Temple in Shouchun, reciting the Lotus Sūtra and the Śūraṅgama-sūtra. He often said that without dhyāna there is no wisdom; thereupon he devoted his mind to dhyāna. Hearing that Dharmamitra was preaching the Way in the capital, he dusted his clothes and crossed the Yangtze River, staying at Lingyao Temple. He diligently inquired and received instruction, fathoming the profound and abstruse. Once, when a band of robbers entered the mountain, Shen sat upright and motionless. The robbers then stripped off their clothes to give to him, and he preached the Dharma to instruct and admonish them. The robbers, ashamed, broke into a sweat, made obeisance, and departed. Huigao of Lingjiu Temple received dhyāna training from him and invited Shen back to his temple, building a separate dhyāna chamber for him. Later, Zhang Zhen of Qinghe invited him to reside at Qixuan Temple. Prince Wenhui and Prince Wenxuan both treated him with great reverence and served him, and Fu Yan and Xiao Chifu both consulted him for precepts and instruction. When Wang Jingze entered the room looking for Shen, he saw him just entering samādhi; snapping his fingers, Wang walked out and said, 'A holy man of the Way!' He then offered one thousand hu of rice and requested to receive the three refuges. He died in the eighth year of the Yongming reign era, at the age of seventy-five.