高僧傳 13.10

13.10

釋慧受，安樂人。晉興寧中，來遊京師。蔬食苦行，常修福業。嘗行過王坦之園，夜輒夢於園中立寺，如此數過。受欲就王乞立一間屋處，未敢發言，且向守園客松期說之。期云：「王家之園，恐非所圖也。」受曰：「若令誠感，何憂不得。」即詣王，陳之。王大喜，即以許焉。初立一小屋，每夕復夢見一青龍從南方來，化為剎柱。受將沙彌試至新亭江尋覓，乃見一長木隨流來下。受曰：「必是吾所見者也。」於是雇人牽上，竪立為剎，架以一層。道俗競集，咸歎神異。坦之即捨園為寺，以受本鄉為名，號曰「安樂寺」。東有丹陽尹王雅宅，西有東燕太守劉鬪宅，南有豫章太守范寧宅，並施以成寺。後有沙門道靖、道敬等，更加修飾，于今崇麗焉。

Shi Huishou was a man of Anle. During the Xingning era of the Jin, he came to travel to the capital. Eating vegetables and practicing austerities, he constantly cultivated meritorious deeds. Once, passing by Wang Tanzhi's garden, he would repeatedly dream at night of founding a temple within the garden; this happened several times. Huishou wished to beg Wang for enough ground for a single room, but dared not speak out, and first spoke of it to Songqi, the garden caretaker. Songqi said: "As for the garden of the Wang family, I fear it is not something you can aim for." Huishou said: "If sincerity brings a response, why worry about not obtaining it?" He immediately went to Wang and explained it. Wang was overjoyed and promptly granted it to him. At first, he erected a small room; every night he dreamed again of a blue dragon coming from the south and transforming into a stupa pole. Huishou took a novice to the Xinting River to search by way of trial, and indeed saw a long log floating down with the current. Huishou said: "This must be what I saw." Thereupon, he hired men to tow it up, erected it as a stupa pole, and framed it with one tier. Monastics and laypeople gathered in competition, all sighing at the divine marvel. Tanzhi then renounced the garden to make a temple, and named it "Anle Temple" after Huishou's native region. To the east was the residence of Wang Ya, the Governor of Danyang; to the west, the residence of Liu Dou, the Grand Protector of Dongyan; and to the south, the residence of Fan Ning, the Grand Protector of Yuzhang: all of them donated their residences to complete the temple. Later, the śramaṇas Daojing, Daojing, and others further repaired and embellished it, and to this day it remains lofty and magnificent.