高僧傳 13.49

13.49

釋曇憑，姓楊，揵為南安人。少遊京師，學轉讀，止白馬寺。音調甚工，而過旦自任，時人未之推也。於是專精規矩，更加研習，晚遂出群，翕然改觀。誦三《本起經》，尤善其聲。後還蜀，止龍淵寺。巴漢懷音者，皆崇其聲範。每梵音一吐，輒鳥馬悲鳴，行途住足。因製造銅鍾，願於未來常有八音四辯。庸蜀有銅鍾，始於此也。後終於所住。時蜀中有僧令道光，亦微善轉讀。

Śramaṇa Tanping, whose secular surname was Yang, was a native of Nan'an in Jianwei. In his youth he traveled to the capital to study scripture recitation, residing at Baima Temple. His intonation was very skillful, but he was excessively self-assured from dawn to dusk, so his contemporaries did not extol him. Thereupon he dedicated himself to the rules and standards and studied them with greater intensity; later he finally surpassed the crowd, and opinions of him completely transformed. When chanting the three Benqi sūtras, his vocal tone was particularly excellent. Later he returned to Shu and resided at Longyuan Temple. Those along the Ba and Han rivers who cherished chanting all revered his vocal model. Whenever he emitted a brahma-sound, birds and horses would cry out mournfully and travelers on the road would halt their steps. Thereupon he cast a bronze bell, making a vow that in future lives he might always possess the eight vocal qualities and four unhindered eloquence. The presence of bronze bells in the Shu region began with this. Later he died at his residence. At that time in Shu there was also the monk Daoguang, who was moderately skilled in scripture recitation.