高僧傳 13.73

13.73

釋道儒，姓石，渤海人。寓居廣陵。少懷清信，慕樂出家。遇宋臨川王義慶鎮南兗，儒以事聞之。王贊成厥志，為啟度出家。出家之後，蔬食讀誦，凡所之造，皆勸人改惡修善，遠近宗奉，遂成導師。言無預撰，發嚮成製。元嘉末出都，止建初寺。長沙王請為戒師，盧丞相伯仲孫等共買張敬兒故廟，為儒立寺，今齊福寺是也。儒以齊永明八年卒，年八十一。

Shi Daoru, whose secular surname was Shi, was a native of Bohai. He lodged in Guangling. In his youth he cherished pure faith and longed to leave household life. Meeting Liu Yiqing, Prince of Linchuan of the Song, who was governing South Yan, Daoru informed him of his intention. The Prince supported his aspiration and petitioned for him to be ordained. After leaving household life, he ate vegetarian food and recited sūtras; wherever he went, he exhorted people to abandon evil and cultivate good. Reaching far and near, they honored and followed him, and he thereby became a chanting leader. His words were not prepared in advance; whatever sound came forth formed a composition. At the end of the Yuanjia era, he went to the capital and stayed at the Jianchu Temple. The Prince of Changsha invited him to be his precept master. Chancellor Lu, his brothers, and grandsons jointly bought the old shrine of Zhang Jing'er and built a temple for Daoru, which is the present Qifu Temple. Daoru died in the eighth year of the Yongming era of the Qi (490) at the age of eighty-one.