高僧傳 3.20

3.20

嚴昔未出家時，嘗受五戒，有所虧犯，後入道受具足，常疑不得戒，每以為懼。積年禪觀而不能自了，遂更汎海，重到天竺，諮諸明達。值羅漢比丘，具以事問，羅漢不敢判決，乃為嚴入定，往兜率宮諮彌勒，彌勒答云：「得戒。」嚴大喜，於是步歸。至罽賓，無疾而化，時年七十八，彼國法凡聖，燒身各處，嚴雖戒操高明，而實行未辦，始移屍向凡僧墓地，而屍重不起。改向聖墓，則飄然自輕。嚴弟子智羽、智遠，故從西來，報此徵瑞，俱還外國。以此推嚴，信是得道人也，但未知果向中間若深淺耳。

In the past, before he had gone forth from the household, Zhiyan had once received the five precepts and committed a transgression against them; after entering the Way and receiving the full ordination, he constantly doubted whether he had truly received the precepts, and always lived in fear of this. Though he practiced dhyāna contemplation for years, he could not resolve it for himself. Thereupon he sailed across the sea and went again to Tianzhu to consult the wise and realized. He met an arhat monk (bhikṣu) and questioned him about the matter in full detail. The arhat did not dare decide it on his own; he entered samādhi on Zhiyan's behalf, went up to the Tuṣita Palace, and consulted Maitreya. Maitreya answered: "He has received the precepts." Zhiyan was overjoyed and thereupon returned on foot. Reaching Jibin (Kashmir), he passed away without illness at the age of seventy-eight. According to the custom of that country, the ordinary and the holy were cremated in different places; although Zhiyan's moral conduct was lofty and luminous, his actual attainment had not been verified. At first they moved his corpse toward the graveyard for ordinary monks, but the corpse became so heavy it could not be lifted; when they redirected it toward the holy graveyard, it became buoyant and light of its own accord. Zhiyan's disciples Zhiyu and Zhiyuan had come purposefully from the west; after reporting this auspicious sign, they both returned abroad. From this it may be deduced that Zhiyan was truly one who had attained the Way, though the depth of his stage along the path to the fruits [of liberation] remains unknown.