高僧傳 12.63

12.63

釋道琳，本會稽山陰人。少出家，有戒行。善《涅槃》、《法華》，誦《淨名經》，吳國張緒禮事之。後居富陽縣泉林寺。寺常有鬼怪，自琳居之，則消。琳弟子慧韶，為屋所押，頭陷入肩，琳為祈請。韶夜見兩梵道人拔出其頭，旦起遂平復。琳於是設聖僧齋，鋪新帛於床上，齋畢，見帛上有人迹，皆長三尺餘，眾咸服其徵感。富陽人始家家立聖僧坐以飯之。至梁初，琳出居齊熙寺。天監十八年卒，春秋七十有三。

Śramaṇa Daolin was originally a native of Shanyin in Kuaiji. He went forth from the household in his youth and possessed disciplined conduct. Skilled in the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra and the Lotus Sūtra, he recited the Vimalakīrtinirdeśa-sūtra; Zhang Xu of the state of Wu revered and served him. Later he resided at Quanlin Temple in Fuyang County. The temple had often been haunted by ghosts and monsters, but from the time Lin resided there, they vanished. Lin's disciple Huishao was crushed by a building so that his head sank into his shoulders; Lin prayed on his behalf. At night Shao saw two foreign monks pull out his head, and when he arose at dawn, he was completely restored to normal. Thereupon Lin hosted an offering for the holy saṃgha and spread a new silk cloth on the couch. When the meal was finished, human footprints were seen on the silk, all over three feet long; the community was entirely convinced of his miraculous responsiveness. From this, the people of Fuyang began in every household to set up seats for the holy saṃgha to feed them. By the beginning of the Liang, Lin went out to reside at Qihe Temple. In the eighteenth year of the Tianjian era, he died at the age of seventy-three.