宋高僧傳 20.20

20.20

釋圓震姓陳，中山人也。少警悟而尚學，入庠序，研究五經。倏遇雲遊沙門寓宵，其父為州衙吏，酷有道心，留是僧供施。震禮奉其僧，聽其談道，頗覺入神。捨儒典，披釋經，頓辭所愛，往白磁山，禮智幽為師受教。後遇荷澤禪師得法，隱南陽烏牙山。先是山中多巨蛇，澤穴有毒龍，鄉人患之。及震居此，二物潛蹤。曾有一人形服且異，致拜乃曰：「我在此已二百歲，今感無心之化，絕慮之修，吾曹冥感超昇，可非師之力歟！」貞元六年終，享齡八十六，弟子奉全身入塔焉。

Śramaṇa Yuanzhen, surnamed Chen, was a native of Zhongshan. In his youth, he was perceptive and fond of study; he entered the school and investigated the Five Classics. Suddenly he met an itinerant śramaṇa lodging for the night; his father, who was an official in the prefectural yamen and deeply inclined toward the Way, retained the monk to make offerings to him. Zhen reverently served this monk and listened to his discourses on the Way, finding them exceedingly inspiring. He set aside the Confucian classics, opened Buddhist scriptures, abruptly bade farewell to those he loved, and went to Mount Baici to take Zhiyou as his master and receive instruction. Later, he encountered the Chan Master of Heze, obtained the Dharma, and secluded himself on Mount Wuya in Nanyang. Prior to this, the mountain had harbored many giant serpents, and the marsh caverns held poisonous dragons, which troubled the local villagers. When Zhen came to reside here, both creatures hid their traces. Once, a person of extraordinary attire and appearance came, bowed, and said: "I have been here for two hundred years. Now, moved by your unintentional transformation and your cultivation free of deliberation, our kind has received an unseen response and ascended beyond; could this be due to anything other than the Master's power?" He passed away in the sixth year of the Zhenyuan era, enjoying an age of eighty-six. His disciples enshrined his whole body in a stupa.