[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [高僧傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059) › 13.8 # 高僧傳 13.8 高僧傳 13.8 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [13.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.13.8) 釋慧元，河北人，為人性善，喜慍無色。常習禪誦經，勸化福事，以為恒業。晉太元初，於武陵平山立寺，有二十餘僧，飧蔬幽遁，永絕人途。以太元十四年卒。卒後有人入武當山下見之，神色甚暢，寄語寺僧，勿使寺業有廢。自是寺內常聞空中應時有磬聲，依而集眾，未嘗差失。沙門竺慧直居之。直精苦有戒節，後絕粒唯餌松柏，因登山蟬蛻焉。 > Shi Huiyuan was a man of Hebei. By nature he was benevolent; neither joy nor anger showed in his countenance. He constantly practiced dhyāna, recited sūtras, and exhorted others to perform meritorious deeds, taking these as his regular vocation. At the beginning of the Taiyuan era of the Jin, he founded a temple on Mount Ping in Wuling, where there were more than twenty monks who ate vegetables, lived in secluded retirement, and permanently cut off the paths of worldly men. He died in the fourteenth year of the Taiyuan era. After his death, someone entered the foot of Mount Wudang and saw him with a very serene and joyful demeanor; he sent word to the temple monks not to let the monastic duties fall into neglect. From then on, inside the temple, the sound of a stone chime was constantly heard from the sky at the appropriate times; following it, they assembled the community without ever missing the hour. The śramaṇa Zhu Huizhi resided there. Huizhi was austere and observed strict precepts; later, he abstained from grains, consumed only pine and cypress, and thereupon climbed the mountain and underwent liberation like a cicada shedding its shell. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 13.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.13.7) - [Next: 13.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.13.9) - [Up: 13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.13) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059~en-mt.13.8) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.13.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2059.13.8) · Pramāṇa