高僧傳 11.7

11.7

帛僧光，或云曇光，未詳何許人。少習禪業。晉永和初，遊于江東，投剡之石城山。山民咸云此中舊有猛獸之災，及山神縱暴，人蹤久絕。光了無懼色，雇人開剪，負杖而前。行入數里，忽大風雨，群虎號鳴。光於山南見一石室，仍止其中，安禪合掌，以為栖神之處。至明旦雨息，乃入村乞食，夕復還中。經三日，乃夢見山神，或作虎形，或作蛇身，競來怖光。光一皆不恐。經三日，又夢見山神，自言移往章安縣寒石山住，推室以相奉。爾後薪採通流，道俗宗事。樂禪來學者，起茅茨於室側，漸成寺舍，因名隱岳。光每入定，輒七日不起。處山五十三載，春秋一百一十歲。晉太元之末，以衣蒙頭，安坐而卒。眾僧咸謂依常入定。過七日後，怪其不起，乃共看之，顏色如常，唯鼻中無氣。神遷雖久，而形骸不朽。至宋孝建二年，郭鴻任剡，入山禮拜，試以如意撥胸，颯然風起。衣服銷散，唯白骨在焉。鴻大愧懼，收之於室，以塼壘其外而泥之，畫其形像，于今尚存。

Bo Sengguang, also called Tanguang, was of unknown origin. In his youth he practiced dhyāna. Early in the Yonghe era of Jin, he traveled east of the Yangtze and went to Mount Shicheng in Shan. The mountain folk all said that this place had long suffered calamities from ferocious beasts and the mountain spirit's violent rampages, so human traces had long ceased. Guang showed no fear at all; he hired men to clear the brush and advanced with staff on his back. Traveling several li inward, a violent storm suddenly arose, and a pack of tigers roared. On the southern side of the mountain, Guang saw a stone chamber and settled within it, sitting in dhyāna with palms joined as a place to lodge his spirit. When the rain ceased at dawn the next day, he entered the village to beg for food, returning inside in the evening. After three days, he dreamt of the mountain spirit appearing sometimes as a tiger and sometimes as a serpent, vying to terrify him. Guang was not frightened at all. After another three days, he again dreamt of the mountain spirit, who said he was moving to reside on Mount Hanshi in Zhang'an County, yielding the chamber to offer it to Guang. Thereafter woodcutters traveled freely, and both monastics and laity revered him. Those who delighted in dhyāna and came to study built thatched huts beside the chamber, which gradually became a monastery called Yinyue. Whenever Guang entered samādhi, he would not arise for seven days. He stayed on the mountain for fifty-three years, reaching an age of one hundred and ten. Late in the Taiyuan era of Jin, he covered his head with his robe, sat peacefully, and passed away. The assembly of monks all thought he had entered samādhi as usual. After seven days passed, wondering why he had not arisen, they went together to look: his complexion was normal, but there was no breath in his nose. Although his spirit had departed long ago, his physical body did not decay. In the second year of Xiaojian of the Song, Guo Hong was appointed magistrate of Shan, entered the mountain to pay homage, and experimentally nudged the chest with a ruyi sceptre; a sudden gust of wind arose, the robes dissolved and scattered, and only white bones remained. Hong was filled with great shame and fear; he gathered them into the chamber, piled bricks outside, plastered it over, and painted his portrait, which still exists today.