高僧傳 12.45

12.45

釋法恭，姓關，雍州人。初出家，止江陵安養寺。後出京師，住東安寺。少而苦行殊倫，服布衣，餌菽麥，誦經三十餘萬言。每夜諷詠，輒有殊香異氣，入恭房者咸共聞之。又以弊納聚蚤虱，常披以飴之。宋武、文、明三帝及衡陽文王義秀等，並崇其德素。所獲信施，常分給貧病，未嘗私蓄。宋太始中還西，卒於彼，春秋八十。

Shi Fagong, whose lay surname was Guan, was a native of Yong Province. When he first left household life, he stayed at Anyang Temple in Jiangling. Later he went to the capital and resided at Dong'an Temple. In his youth his austere practices were extraordinary: he wore cloth garments, ate pulses and wheat, and recited over three hundred thousand words of sūtras. Whenever he chanted at night, there was always an extraordinary fragrance and rare aroma, which all who entered Fagong's room could smell. Furthermore, because his worn patched robe harbored fleas and lice, he always wore it to feed them. The three emperors Wu, Wen, and Ming of the Song, as well as Yixiu, the Wen King of Hengyang, and others all revered his virtuous simplicity. The offerings he received from the faithful he always distributed to the poor and sick, never hoarding them for personal use. During the Taishi reign period of the Song, he returned to the west and died there, at the age of eighty.