高僧傳 12.24

12.24

釋法光，秦州隴西人，少而有信。至二十九方出家，苦行頭陀。不服綿纊，絕五穀，唯餌松葉。後誓志燒身，乃服松膏及飲油，經于半年，至齊永明五年十月二十日，於隴西記城寺內，集薪焚身，以滿先志。火來至目，誦聲猶記。至鼻乃昧，奄然而絕。春秋四十有一。時永明末，始豐縣有比丘法存，亦燒身供養。郡守蕭緬，遣沙門慧深，為起灰塔。

Shi Faguang was a native of Longxi in Qinzhou. He had faith from his youth. Only at the age of twenty-nine did he take pravrajyā and engage in dhūta asceticism. He did not wear silk padding, renounced the five grains, and fed only on pine needles. Later he vowed to burn his body, whereupon he ingested pine resin and drank oil for half a year. On the twentieth day of the tenth month in the fifth year of the Yongming era of the Qi, within Jicheng Temple in Longxi, he gathered firewood and burned his body to fulfill his former vow. When the fire reached his eyes, the sound of his chanting was still clear. When it reached his nose, it became indistinct, and he abruptly ceased. He was forty-one years of age. At the end of the Yongming era, there was a monk named Facun in Shifeng County who also burned his body in offering. Commandery Governor Xiao Mian dispatched the śramaṇa Huishen to erect a stūpa for his ashes.