高僧傳 4.31

4.31

遁先經餘姚塢山中住，至於名辰猶還塢中，或問其意。答云：「謝安在昔數來見，輒移旬日，今觸情舉目，莫不興想。」後病甚，移還塢中，以晉太和元年閏四月四日終于所住，春秋五十有三。即窆於塢中，厥塚存焉。或云終剡，未詳。郄超為之序傳，袁宏為之銘贊，周曇寶為之作誄。孫綽〈道賢論〉以遁方向子期，論云：「支遁、向秀雅尚《莊》、《老》。二子異時，風好玄同矣。」又〈喻道論〉云：「支道林者。識清體順，而不對於物。玄道冲濟，與神情同任。此遠流之所以歸宗，悠悠者所以未悟也。」後高士戴逵行經遁墓，乃歎曰：「德音未遠，而拱木已繁，冀神理綿綿，不與氣運俱盡耳。」

Dun had previously lived in Wushan in Yuyao, and on famous festive days he would still return to the Wu valley. Someone asked him the reason, and he replied: 'In the past, Xie An frequently came to visit me, always staying for ten days or more. Now, wherever I look and whatever touches my feelings, thoughts of him are inevitably stirred.' Later, falling gravely ill, he moved back into the Wu valley. On the fourth day of the intercalary fourth month in the first year of the Taihe era of the Jin dynasty, he died at his residence at the age of fifty-three. He was buried right in the Wu valley, where his tomb still remains; some say he died in Shan, which is uncertain. Xi Chao wrote a preface and biography for him, Yuan Hong wrote an inscription and eulogy, and Zhou Tanbao composed an elegy. Sun Chuo's 'Treatise on Daoists and Worthies' compared Dun to Xiang Ziqi, stating: 'Zhi Dun and Xiang Xiu had an elegant taste for the Zhuangzi and Laozi. Though the two men lived at different times, their demeanor and tastes were mysteriously identical.' His 'Treatise on Illustrating the Way' also says: 'Zhi Daolin's understanding was clear and his nature compliant, yet he did not oppose external things. His mysterious Way was profound and helpful, according with his spiritual disposition. This is the reason why those of far-reaching currents returned to the source, and why the ordinary masses failed to awaken.' Later, when the eminent scholar Dai Kui passed by Dun's tomb, he sighed: 'His virtuous reputation is not yet distant, yet the trees over his grave are already dense. May his spiritual essence continue unbroken and not perish together with the physical breath.'