宋高僧傳 14.29

14.29

釋德秀，俗姓孫氏，富陽人也。少出塵區，早棲梵宇。當圓戒檢，正護浮囊，匪定常師，留神律府。講談之外，嘗哀鬼神乏食，恒以深更施其飲食。浙汭之民，傾誠畏服。及終於定山，頗多靈異，則天寶初載也。遷神座入塔時，天降舍利七顆，門人以瓶盛之，緘于其塔。或發之，見秀齒上生舍利，紛紛而墜。後人還累甓成浮圖。鄉人云：「恒有白蛇蟠屈守塔，樵牧之童無敢近者。」

Śramaṇa Dexiu, whose secular surname was Sun, was a man of Fuyang. In his youth he left the dust of the mundane world, early on dwelling in a Buddhist monastery. When he fulfilled the standards of the precepts, he strictly guarded his flotation bladder; not adhering to a single constant master, he set his mind on the storehouse of vinaya. Apart from giving lectures and discussions, he often pitied hungry ghosts and spirits lacking food, and regularly bestowed food and drink upon them late at night. The people along the river of Zhejiang respected and stood in awe of him with utmost sincerity. When he passed away at Mount Ding, numerous miracles occurred; this was in the early years of the Tianbao era. When his spirit-seat was moved into the stūpa, seven relics (śarīra) fell from the sky; his disciples placed them in a vase and sealed them within the stūpa. When someone opened it, they saw relics growing upon Dexiu's teeth, falling down in profusion. Later people stacked bricks to construct a pagoda. The local villagers said: 'A white snake constantly coils and guards the stūpa; children gathering firewood and herding cattle dare not approach it.'