高僧傳 13.80

13.80

後入定三日不食，忽語弟子云：「汝等失飯籮矣。」俄而寢疾。時寺側遭燒，寺在下風，煙焰必及。弟子欲輿願出寺，願曰：「佛若被燒，我何用活？」即苦心歸命，於是三面皆焚，唯寺不燼。齊永元二年，年八十七卒。

Later, he entered samādhi and did not eat for three days. Suddenly he said to his disciples, "You have lost your rice hamper!" Shortly afterward he took to his bed with illness. At that time, a fire broke out beside the temple. The temple was downwind, and the smoke and flames were certain to reach it. His disciples wanted to carry Fayuan out of the temple on a stretcher, but Fayuan said, "If the Buddha is burned, what use is there in my living?" He immediately took refuge with bitter devotion. Thereupon three sides were burned away, yet only the temple was not reduced to ashes. In the second year of the Yongyuan reign-era of the Qi, he died at the age of eighty-seven.