高僧傳 12.40

12.40

後與同學四人，南遊上京，觀矚風化。夜乘氷度河，中道氷破，三人沒死。冏又歸誠觀音，乃覺脚下如有一物自𢼨，復見赤光在前，乘光至岸。達都，止南㵎寺，常以《般舟》為業。嘗中夜入禪，忽見四人御車至房，呼令上乘。冏欻不自覺，已見身在郡後沈橋。見一人在路坐胡床，侍者數百人，見冏驚起，曰：「坐禪人耳。」彼人因謂左右曰：「向止令知處而已，何忽勞屈法師。」於是禮拜執別，令人送冏還寺。扣門良久方開，入寺見房猶閉，眾咸莫測其然。宋元嘉二十年，臨川康王義慶携往廣陵，終於彼矣。

Later, together with four fellow students, he traveled south to the capital to observe its customs. Crossing a river by night on ice, the ice broke midway and three men drowned. Daojiong again took sincere refuge in Avalokiteśvara, and felt as if something under his feet was supporting him, and again saw a red light ahead; following the light, he reached the shore. Arriving at the capital, he stayed at Nanjian Temple, always taking the Pratyutpanna-samādhi as his practice. Once, while entering dhyāna in the middle of the night, he suddenly saw four men driving a carriage to his room, calling him to board. Daojiong, unaware of how it happened, suddenly saw himself at Shen Bridge behind the commandery headquarters. He saw a man sitting on a folding chair on the road with several hundred attendants, who, upon seeing Daojiong, stood up in surprise and said, "He is merely a dhyāna practitioner." The man then said to his attendants, "I only told you to find his whereabouts; why did you suddenly trouble and bother the Dharma master?" Thereupon he bowed, took leave, and had someone escort Daojiong back to the temple. They knocked at the gate for a long time before it opened; entering the temple, he found his room was still locked, and everyone was mystified. In the twentieth year of the Yuanjia reign period of the Song, Yiqing, the Kang King of Linchuan, took him to Guangling, where he died.