高僧傳 11.9

11.9

竺曇猷，或云法猷，燉煌人。少苦行，習禪定。後遊江左，止剡之石城山，乞食坐禪。嘗行到一行蠱家乞食。猷呪願竟，忽有蜈蚣從食中跳出。猷快食無他。後移始豐赤城山石室坐禪。有猛虎數十，蹲在猷前，猷誦經如故。一虎獨睡，猷以如意扣虎頭，問何不聽經，俄而群虎皆去。有頃，壯蛇競出，大十餘圍，循環往復，舉頭向猷，經半日復去。後一日神現形詣猷曰：「法師威德既重，來止此山，弟子輒推室以相奉。」猷曰：「貧道尋山，願得相值，何不共住？」神曰：「弟子無為不爾，但部屬未洽法化，卒難制語。遠人來往，或相侵觸。人神道異，是以去耳。」猷曰：「本是何神？居之久近，欲移何處去耶？」神曰：「弟子夏帝之子，居此山二千餘年。寒石山是家舅所治，當往彼住。」尋還山陰廟。臨別執手，贈猷香三奩，於是鳴鞞吹角，陵雲而去。

Zhu Tanyou, also called Fayou, was a native of Dunhuang. In his youth, he practiced austerities and trained in dhyāna meditation. Later, he traveled to the region east of the Yangtze and stayed at Mount Shicheng in Shan, begging for food and sitting in dhyāna. He once went on his begging rounds to the house of a person who practiced witchcraft (gu poison). As soon as Tanyou finished his praṇidhāna, a centipede suddenly leaped out from the food. Tanyou ate it heartily without any harm. Later, he moved to a stone chamber on Mount Chicheng in Shifeng to sit in dhyāna. Several tens of fierce tigers crouched before Tanyou, but he recited the sūtras as before. One tiger alone fell asleep, so Tanyou tapped its head with a ruyi sceptre and asked why it was not listening to the sūtra; shortly thereafter, all the tigers departed. Before long, large snakes competed to emerge, more than ten spans around; coiling back and forth, they raised their heads toward Tanyou, departing only after half a day. The next day, a deity manifested in physical form, came to Tanyou, and said: "The Dharma Master's majestic virtue is so profound that you have come to reside in this mountain; I, your disciple, respectfully yield my chamber to present it to you." Tanyou said: "I wandered into this mountain hoping to encounter someone; why not live together?" The deity said: "It is not that I, your disciple, am unwilling to do so, but my subordinates have not yet been transformed by the Dharma and are difficult to restrain at short notice. When people come and go from afar, they might harass or offend them. Humans and spirits follow different paths, and this is why I am leaving." Tanyou asked: "What spirit were you originally? How long have you lived here, and where do you wish to move?" The spirit replied: "I am the son of an emperor of the Xia, and I have dwelt in this mountain for more than two thousand years. Mount Hanshi is ruled by my maternal uncle; I shall go to live there." Soon he returned to the shrine at Shanyin. Parting, he held Tanyou's hand and presented him with three cases of incense, whereupon, beating drums and blowing horns, he soared through the clouds and left.