高僧傳 9.43

9.43

Daokai was able to cure eye ailments. At that time, Duke of Qin Shi Tao went to Daokai to treat his eyes. Applying the medicine caused a little pain, which Tao dreaded very much, but in the end he obtained its efficacy. Fotudeng said, 'This Daoist observes the rise and fall of the state; if he departs, there will be a great calamity.' In the first year of the Taining era of Shi Hu, Daokai and his disciples went south, crossing to Xuchang. Hu's sons and nephews slaughtered one another, and the capital of Ye fell into great chaos. In the third year of the Shengping era of the Jin, he came to Jianye, and soon after reached Nanhai, later entering Mount Luofu. Living alone in a thatched hut, he remained serenely detached from worldly matters. At the age of more than a hundred years, he died at his mountain abode. He instructed his disciples to place his corpse in a stone cave, and the disciples moved it into a stone chamber.