高僧傳 11.75

11.75

釋慧明，姓康，康居人。祖世避地于東吳。明少出家，止章安東寺。齊建元中，與沙門共登赤城山石室，見猷公屍骸不朽，而禪室荒蕪，高蹤不繼。乃雇人開剪，更立堂室，造臥佛并猷公像。於是栖心禪誦，畢命枯槁。後於定中見一女神，自稱呂姥，云常加護衛。或時有白猨、白鹿、白蛇、白虎，遊戲堦前，馴伏宛轉，不令人畏。

Shi Huiming, whose secular surname was Kang, was a native of Kangju (Sogdia). His ancestors had fled to Eastern Wu to escape turmoil. Ming took pravrajyā in his youth and resided at Dong Temple in Zhang'an. During the Jianyuan reign era of the Qi, he climbed the stone chambers of Mount Chicheng together with fellow śramaṇas; seeing that the skeletal remains of Venerable You were undecayed, while the dhyāna chambers were overgrown and neglected with no one carrying on his noble traces, he hired laborers to clear the paths, rebuilt halls and chambers, and crafted a reclining Buddha along with an image of Venerable You. Thereupon he settled his mind in dhyāna and recitation, dedicating his life to ascetic practice. Later, while in samādhi, he saw a goddess who called herself Old Mother Lü, saying that she constantly protected him. At times, white apes, white deer, white snakes, and white tigers would frolic before the steps, tame and docile, rolling about without causing fear to anyone.